The post said that one of the reasons Sears houses could exist then, but can’t now, was
> The increase in number and specificity of building codes has come in-part due to foreign-made building materials and poor QC.
And clarified specifically:
> the decline in fitting production and consolidation in the U.S. in the 90s with the introduction of Korean-made fittings. Chinese-made cast iron is another one to poke at.
I’m not pillorying anyone, I’m just trying to get them to join some dots up.
Why is the location of fitting manufacture relevant to the decline of the Sears house?
Doesn’t the availability of cheaper parts manufactured to apparently lower quality standards make it easier for catalogue houses to exist?
And didn’t the Sears house decline long before the Chinese cast iron of the 70s and these Korean fittings of the 90s?
Did building regulations make it harder to offer kit houses? Yet building regulations did not prevent cheap imported parts coming in to the US apparently, so… building refs both were a reaction to foreign parts but also a cause of a decline in US part manufacturing?
> The increase in number and specificity of building codes has come in-part due to foreign-made building materials and poor QC.
And clarified specifically:
> the decline in fitting production and consolidation in the U.S. in the 90s with the introduction of Korean-made fittings. Chinese-made cast iron is another one to poke at.
I’m not pillorying anyone, I’m just trying to get them to join some dots up.
Why is the location of fitting manufacture relevant to the decline of the Sears house?
Doesn’t the availability of cheaper parts manufactured to apparently lower quality standards make it easier for catalogue houses to exist?
And didn’t the Sears house decline long before the Chinese cast iron of the 70s and these Korean fittings of the 90s?
Did building regulations make it harder to offer kit houses? Yet building regulations did not prevent cheap imported parts coming in to the US apparently, so… building refs both were a reaction to foreign parts but also a cause of a decline in US part manufacturing?