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After @pipedreaming.bsky.social got done with his presentation on single-stair venting a few days ago, one of the committee members said, exasperatedly, “I didn’t realize I was signing up for this” – as in, he didn’t realize he’d be volunteering his time to review such a big proposal. I worry…

…about this a lot, that the code development process is just not well resourced enough to handle any big shifts in code. He was a plumbing code official in a town of not more than 20,000 people in a rural state, whose involvement is essentially subsidized by those taxpayers. Of all of the committee…

…members, I think he took his responsibilities most seriously (he asked a bunch of questions, followed up with requests for more information). It doesn’t seem right that evaluating such a paradigm shift in plumbing design is being evaluated by a random assortment of volunteers like this.

To say nothing of all of the volunteering that @pipedreaming.bsky.social did to research and develop this code proposal (which has been many years in the making) before I hired him. There are huge cost savings across society here – society as a whole would benefit from investing in finding more.