I know exactly what he said and that's why I said exactly what I said.
>The only difference is the private inspectors sound like they'll let you skate by on some stuff
Government building inspections are incredibly onerous unless you're a homeowner building a deck or a developer building cookie cutter houses or offices. You run into all sorts of stupid edge cases depending on what the facility being built is intended for and you need to get clarification on what you should do. Have you ever actually tried to get government clarification about something? They need to be dragged kicking and screaming, often through a courtroom to ever clarify anything in writing because nobody wants to set a precedent or take the responsibility of making judgement calls. Having professionals who will take the responsibility of those judgement calls is a massive net plus.
The fact that your knee jerk response is to frame professionals using judgement their jobs as "letting you state by" is just crazy. Would you say the same thing if the context was a PE crunching numbers, finding something that didn't pass the default rules and then using their judgement to conclude it was fine because of other situational details? People do their jobs satisfactorily the overwhelming majority of the time. Being on the government payroll doesn't make public inspectors immune from playing favorites or making screw ups. It just means the oversights follow a different pattern. Everyone's experienced plenty of government inspectors who don't do their job because it's Friday and they want to GTFO.
> Spend any time on a car enthusiast website and everyone knows "the guy" to go to that'll pass your obviously illegal emissions equipment bypass...
If the vehicle code were written the way the building code and occupational health and safety code is that's the only way any commercial vehicle that isn't a cookie cutter box truck would ever pass an inspection.
> The fact that your knee jerk response is to frame professionals using judgement their jobs as "letting you state by" is just crazy.
The UK system (builders choose their own building control inspector in the free market, building owners choose their own fire risk assessor in the free market, makers of building materials choose their own flammability testing house in the free market) produced hundreds of tower blocks clad in flammable cladding and insulation, and a fire in which 72 people died.
After all, why choose the guy who's going to give you a hard time, when you could choose someone friendly, helpful and trusting?
And inspectors and testers know that. And those that are still in business are so very friendly, helpful and trusting, in fact, that the person certifying whether your insulation is flammable will let you set up the test rig yourself, and they "won't notice" you've put magnesium oxide fireproof boards over the flame sensors.
I know exactly what he said and that's why I said exactly what I said.
>The only difference is the private inspectors sound like they'll let you skate by on some stuff
Government building inspections are incredibly onerous unless you're a homeowner building a deck or a developer building cookie cutter houses or offices. You run into all sorts of stupid edge cases depending on what the facility being built is intended for and you need to get clarification on what you should do. Have you ever actually tried to get government clarification about something? They need to be dragged kicking and screaming, often through a courtroom to ever clarify anything in writing because nobody wants to set a precedent or take the responsibility of making judgement calls. Having professionals who will take the responsibility of those judgement calls is a massive net plus.
The fact that your knee jerk response is to frame professionals using judgement their jobs as "letting you state by" is just crazy. Would you say the same thing if the context was a PE crunching numbers, finding something that didn't pass the default rules and then using their judgement to conclude it was fine because of other situational details? People do their jobs satisfactorily the overwhelming majority of the time. Being on the government payroll doesn't make public inspectors immune from playing favorites or making screw ups. It just means the oversights follow a different pattern. Everyone's experienced plenty of government inspectors who don't do their job because it's Friday and they want to GTFO.
> Spend any time on a car enthusiast website and everyone knows "the guy" to go to that'll pass your obviously illegal emissions equipment bypass...
If the vehicle code were written the way the building code and occupational health and safety code is that's the only way any commercial vehicle that isn't a cookie cutter box truck would ever pass an inspection.