Re:'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)
by pdonis on Saturday December 31, 2016 @08:10PM
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> You have evidence he built one house correctly :) That tells you literally nothing about the previous performance of his houses.
Only if you believe that his performance on the one house has no correlation whatever with his performance on other houses. That seems highly implausible to me.
> he could have fixed it all
Fixed what? The problem wasn't that the house was actually built wrong. The problem was that the inspector wasn't competent enough to make an actual engineering judgment, so all he could look for was some particular label on the lumber instead of assessing its actual structural strength. An independent inspector, who did have the competence to make an actual engineering judgment, said the house was fine (in fact he said it exceeded the building code standards).
Only if you believe that his performance on the one house has no correlation whatever with his performance on other houses. That seems highly implausible to me.
> he could have fixed it all
Fixed what? The problem wasn't that the house was actually built wrong. The problem was that the inspector wasn't competent enough to make an actual engineering judgment, so all he could look for was some particular label on the lumber instead of assessing its actual structural strength. An independent inspector, who did have the competence to make an actual engineering judgment, said the house was fine (in fact he said it exceeded the building code standards).