Originally Posted by
Jerry McCarthy
Old dog and new tricks syndrome I think?
Probably.
I had the advantage of having to adapt to that change years earlier, for the 2001 Florida Building Code, so I've been "successfully retrained" from having to remember two separation methods to only one separation method.
The South Florida Building Code (for Miami-Dade County and for Broward County) also had "fire rated assemblies" between garages and living space, however, Palm Beach County did not, and I did about half of my inspections in Palm Beach County, so I had to keep my mind flipping back and forth between three codes (there were two editions of the South Florida Building Code, one for Miami-Dade and a different one for Broward).
I was glad we went to a single state-wide code (Whew!), except that we lost a lot of good things (from the two SFBC versions) while picking up other good things from the ICC codes (Palm Beach County was under the old SBCCI Standard Building Codes).
That made it actually easier for this old dog to learn - less to remember.
