[jajko]

Great approach, when your shoddy installation burns down half the neighborhood and kills 7 people you may not feel so heroic and braggish. Thats not courage but arrogance.

Regulations came into effect as they are now due to a very long line of horrible disasters & regulatory reactions to them.

[ty6853]

Cool story but most houses here are old and grandfathered (think baloon framing without blocking) in and built before modern codes whereas mine incorporates modern fire mitigating materials and techniques like platform framing with blocking, egress windows, fire rated drywall, etc. Mine is actually safer than most of the neighborhood, I am poor not stupid.