Originally Posted by
Yppej
For those of you in big government states, what has been your experience with building codes?
I have thought of making some improvements to my 71 year old home, but I hear horror stories such as any time you have to pull a permit the city or town you are in can force you to update everything else in your home to bring it to current code. Any time you add anything, any other structure it connects to must be inspected and brought up to current code. My neighbors recently put up a detached rather than attached garage and I am thinking this is the reason why.
There are state building codes, local building codes, stretch codes, and in some places green building codes.
It seems the way to go is either let your house deteriorate or do things yourself or with contractors who won't pull permits, then wait at least 10 years before selling your house so you are past the statute of limitations and can't be fined.