Building departments are supposed to be there to help us.. buuuuut, they are usually staffed by college kids who know nothing of building anything. And, if it isn't by the book that they learned from, they are less than useless.
And don't get me started on the UBC.
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Nice thing about the building departments, is that they are pretty easy to bribe.