Right on, I don't intend to, code provision or not. The fire issue scares me a little too much.
I would hope removing that code provision (which only implies the concern to begin with) doesn't kick that can further down the wrong road.
Thanks for the response!
This makes sense to me. Thanks for the response! I think you're saying they eased the code restriction back and let the engineer be responsible for considering the differential movement instead of the code imposing a low limit.
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