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Building Materials by any Other Name...
I'll not Budge an
Inch...
A Man Can Die but Once...
Permit or not to Permit...
All the World's a Stage...
100
A drywaller's tool of the trade,and what pig's call home.
What is mud?
100
Judging by the way his neighbor Wilson towered over it, Tim "The Toolman" Taylor didn't need a permit for his fence since it was likely less than this height.
What is 72 inches?
100
The horrific event that brought many changes to the building code relating to elevators in sky scrapers and high rises.
What is 9/11?
100
A "dirty" operation that many think "stinks" because it now needs a UCC permit and inspection.
What is a sewer lateral installation?
100
A "tilted" structure that the Germans were using as an observation post in Italy during WWII, which the allies didn't destroy it because of its exceptional beauty.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
200
Something that will not concern the police if found in a plumber's toolbox.
What is pipe "dope"?
200
If you are planning to open a comic book store, keep your display cases below this height and you won't need a permit for them.
What is 69 inches?
200
An infamous 1911 workplace fire that prompted changes to the building code requiring sprinklers on all floors over the 7th.
What is Triangle Shirt Factory?
200
The reason a local performing arts group hosting a "theater in the round" production of "A Mid-Summers Night Dream", is exempt from permit.
What is temporary theater stage set exemption?
200
A down-under wonder, with a roof line of "sails" that is best known for offering programs like Madame Butterfly but was also the venue where Arnold Schwarzenegger won his final Mr. Olympia title in 1980.
What is the Sydney Opera House?
300
Mathew McConahay, George Clooney or this piece of lumber.
What is a stud?
300
Dr. J and AI could both dribble down the stairs in a newly constructed home but not Nerlans Noel, whose 6" 11" frame would not have enough headroom if the stairway was built to this minimum code requirement.
What is 80 inches?
300
A Cat 4 hurricane that in 1992 caused the destruction of 99% of the manufactured homes in Miami-Dade County, Florida and led to the development of the Manufactured Home and Construction Standards.
What is Hurricane Andrew?
300
The exemption that had J.R. Ewing singing all the way to the bank.
What is Oil Derrick?
300
The most visited tourist destination on the sub-continent, this palatial structure known for its beautiful white marble set into a pool of azure cost 32 crore rupees in 1653 (according to Raj Koothrappali's accounting). That is .51 cents to you and me.
What is the Taj Mahal?
400
A lucky insect that belongs on your roof as well as your hearth.
What is a cricket?
400
According to the IRC, water service pipe shall be installed not less than this far below the surface AND not less than this far below the frost line.
What are 12 inches and 6 inches?
400
A "tropical" restaurant in Boston that was the site of a 1942 nightclub fire that killed 492 people ,which lead to a significant overhaul of building safety codes.
What is Cocoanut Grove?
400
The device by which Building Code Officials do not need to issue individual permits for each alteration to an already approved mechanical installation, provided certain conditions are met.
What is an Annual Permit?
400
This famous mountain retreat built in the 1930s is the only Frank Lloyd Wright designed house open to the public with its furnishings, artwork, and setting intact.
What is Falling Water?
500
If you have one of these conduit bending tools that share their name with a "love bite", your wife won't mind.
What is a Hickey?
500
The height of retaining walls, measured from the lowest level of grade to the top of the wall, that are exempt from permit.
What is 48 inches?
500
The city (that actually sits outside of Tornado alley) that is the site of the costliest tornado in history to hit the states, which destroyed 25% and damaged 75% of its buildings.
What is Joplin, MO?
500
The Act that applies when you need to add a bedroom to your "titled" home after an unexpected delivery from the stork.
What is the Uniform Construction Code?
500
An iconic wedge-shaped NYC structure, featured in the opening credits of many tv shows and movies, that was only able to be built after a change to the 1892 building code, eliminating the requirement that masonry be used for fireproofing considerations opening the way for steel-skeleton construction.
What is the Flatiron Building?