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Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas
These types of structures are cheap to build and all the materials extraordinarily flammable, thanks to the unbridled use of chipboard and soft fir studs. My personal opinion is no city anywhere should approve construction of such structures. Nothing but dangerous fire traps! Note the chances are any Holiday inn Express, Best Western, or LaQuinta Motel/Hotel built in the last 5 years is of similar construction type and of similar materials. Cheap and Dangerous!
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The building codes around here are exceedingly stringent, and they get more so after every earthquake, as more is learned. It's impossible to build a frame structure cheaply, or dangerously, around here—unless someone's paying off the inspectors.
As someone has mentioned quite recently in these pages, wood-frame construction is the most suitable method for such a structure hereabouts, in terms of safety and durability.