[Balding_Eagle]

I’m a builder.

Like all builders I need to have a permit before I can begin construction, and that includes meeting the energy code.

Long story short: I was required to install a furnace of a certain small size in a new house. It was 20 below the morning I went in to plead the case for a larger furnace.

The code outlined that I could have a 60 degree temperature rise, and so I asked the code guy “So, you want me to install this furnace, and the house will be a stable 40 degrees inside in weather like we had last night?”

Total silence.

He graciously ‘allowed’ me to install a two stage furnace to get around the code..

[Balding_Eagle]

Wrong temperatures, sorry.

It was 10 below that night, not 20, the allowed temperature raise is 60 degrees, the stable inside temperature would be 50 degrees.

[Leisler]

Pretty soon you’re going to need a lawyer, a historical consultant, and an environmentalist impact researcher to switch out a front door.

All permits will have to be filed by the third week in January for the 'scheduled' upcoming work for the year. And...so forth.