If there is ever a misconstrued message-received incident, this is it. No one is telling you "that's wrong, what you've done." Personally, I offered you observations based upon accepted building practices
to a higher standard than yours, and prefaced as-such. Your over-reaction shows me that you completely misunderstood the spirit in-which such comments were made.
"Good-enough" is a paraphrase denoting that which may satisfy your local code, and that allows you to legally comply with current local requirements. "Best practices" is an example of what to do, with materials, construction techniques, and design beyond the basic requirements. Sometimes these changes are the result of incidents which point-out deficiencies in the building industry as currently-practiced, due to environmental issues or an exposure to information gleaned over time seeing what has happened because of the use of materials or building practices as-adopted, or because of weather events, or geological ones (hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, earthquakes). Becoming aware of advancements along these lines is what drives changes in codes over times, The end result is a safer, better-constructed structure reflecting the advancements allowing such changes. That is why the authorities having jurisdiction (AHJ) meet periodically to adopt changes in code.
Examples of this are found across the industries of construction, land use, life safety and yes, politics.
Lead was once used to solder copper water pipes together until the detrimental effects of lead poisoning became evident; tetraethyl lead was discovered by Kettering and Midgely of GM-Delco Laboratories to be an effective additive to substantially-boost the octane rating of gasoline, allowing engines to produce more horsepower due-to increased engine compression, with a side benefit to your Mopar engine of cushioning the valves on their seats due to lead deposits in this area. In the building trades, lead in paint was an accepted component offering weather resistance, ease of application and appearance sustainability over time. And time, and the accumulation of knowledge is what allowed and then caused the use of lead to be eliminated in each of these areas, because of the damage to the environment, and the cumulative effects of lead in it.
Firefighters in the USA are familiar with the conflagration referred-to as the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire. Nearly 150 employees were trapped and died in an industrial setting because a number of accepted practices existed. Briefly, workers were locked-in at their place of work in a multi-story building, with inadequate means of egress from the workplace in the event of a fire, requiring rapid evacuation. Even if they weren't locked-in the means of egress was inadequate to rapidly evacuate the number of workers employed. There were no building sprinklers to provide fire suppression in the event of an incipient fire in the building. The accumulation of debris from the occupancy manufacturing, and the lack of adequate removal of waste, and the method of storage of manufactured goods on the shop floor proved to be both barriers to orderly evacuation, if such evacuation was possible in a timely fashion (it was not) and a source of feeding the fire once it began. A lack of standpipes for firefighting crews and adequate fire alarms to alert occupants to the need to evacuate all combined to cause the deaths of nearly 150 of building occupants in the ensuing fire. The public outcry over this tragedy is often cited as the primary reason for the development of sprinkler systems to protect lives and property, along with requirements for adequate means of egress from an occupancy for the building inhabitants, and the need to alert occupants in the event of a fire.
Not-more than five years before this, the entire city of San Francisco experienced devastation due-to an environmental disaster as an earthquake destroyed the city's structures and infrastructures, collapsing thousands of buildings, causing the deaths of a number of people equivalent to NYC's Twin Trade Towers collapse, and the Pentagon and PA plane crashes of 9-11-01. Because the water supply was affected, rendered useless, the ensuing firestorm and the building damage rendered a quarter-million-plus homeless, that-day.
The failure of the water containment system for the region of New Orleans and the Mississippi delta and the Gulf Coast's exposure because of what Hurricane Katrina caused have resulted in political action to push the improvements in infrastructure and land development to hopefully minimize such widespread loss of life and of property in the future, given another environmental occurrence.
Assuming that you are in the Village of Port Chester NY your local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) has adopted the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code (the Uniform Code)
https://ecode360.com/10908444. The NYS Uniform Fire Prevention Code references the NFPA as-adopted, and allows for local additions. I have worked with the NFPA code for my entire career, so I am familiar with what is used in your jurisdiction.
I am a member of the NFPA, a career firefighter/paramedic, a lifesafety inspector, a fireservice instructor, and a plans examiner. My career began forty-three years ago, and I am retired but retain my credentials.
When field professionals of long-standing choose to share their knowledge, skills, and abilities with whoever may-be the recipient through whatever means of transmittal, it is the prerogative of the person-receiving to ignore the effort of communication.
No-one here in the thread has made any such accusation of,
how wrong you're doing things. No-one has impugned or maligned the work and reputations of the inspectors, architects, engineers, and builders you have used, nor that of yourself. I hope that you understand that, but reading your comments makes me suspect otherwise. For-that I am truly sorry. I can only speak for myself, but I suspect I may have acted in this thread in the same spirit as others who have posted, offering information to you based on such things as, "best practices," and of building construction above the minimum prescriptive code enforced by your local AHJ.
one thing I can say about this forum is there isn't a shortage of people willing to tell you how wrong you're doing things, regardless of how many inspectors, architects, engineers, builders and my own experience tell me. Someone a thousand miles away with zero knowledge of local building codes always seems to know more than my local experts know.
I think I'm pretty much done here. The keyboard warriors are just too much to take.
good bye
