This whole line of thinking can be carried throughout construction.You can buy the 22 cent plastic electrical boxes or the $3 steel reinforced, adjustable depth, heavy duty ones …or even metal.
I was recently at Home Depot and was surprised to find the metal boxes actually cheaper than the reinforced plastic ones.
The residential fire sprinkler people are allowed to use PVC pipes in the attic and floor joists between house levels.Many “higher end” houses have this junk in them.
Thats dumb.. melt through one pipe and the sprinkler system is down (unless there are in-pipe flow restrictors).
The oversight of construction and associated economic burnens have gone through the roof, but some think the actual construction has gone way down hill. Shame and scandal on who?
I have seen a lot of this.. and on more than construction. I have seen where cheap materials are used to squeeze out just a bit more profit when the real cost was the labor. There is a lot of blame to go around.
