UffDa
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A local home inspector writes a column in local news paper every other week. He discusses things like CO detectors and weep screeds.
In yesterdays column someone asked how we got along before there were building codes. The answer was that building codes go back to The codes of Hammerabi. I posted some of them below. They make more sense then some of the garbage we have today. 
I especially like the ones where the builder has to fix things at his own expense.:thumbup:
The Code of Hammurabi
229
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
230
If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.
231
If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.
232
If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.
233
If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.
In yesterdays column someone asked how we got along before there were building codes. The answer was that building codes go back to The codes of Hammerabi. I posted some of them below. They make more sense then some of the garbage we have today. I especially like the ones where the builder has to fix things at his own expense.:thumbup:The Code of Hammurabi
229
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
230
If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.
231
If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.
232
If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.
233
If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.
