RE: [GBlist] house thoughts

[John Salmen <terrain@shaw.ca>]

I feel a bit lost in all the commentary. To begin with and to set the record
straight on toilet clearances I was not refering to code minimums so much as
"design standards" which tend to create 1'6 clearances between such objects.
30" I can appreciate and have shaved a few inches off occaisionally, knowing
full well that a smaller measurement can represent both intamacy as well as
comfort. I will also however concede that americans are big people or are
evolving to be more so and require big clearances between objects or will
need such clearances in the future, but does this also mean that highways
have to become wider because the clearance between a large drivers seat and
a large coffee requires a wider wheebase.

JOHN SALMEN
TERRAIN E.D.S.




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