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ELI5: Having seeing that gif of the Amish building a barn, what building codes do they have to adher (ex. smoke detectors, etc.) and do fire departments treat fires differently if they are held to different standards?
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Building codes are set at the city and county level, not the State level. Since the Amish live in their own communities (small villages or collections of farms) they do not have any building codes that they have to comply to save the standards of craftsmanship they choose to hold themselves to. But seeing as they see labor as a service to God they put a massive amount of time in planning the design and crafting of the barns. The final assemblies go very fast due to teamwork. The Amish are also some of the most skilled carpenters and wood workers in the country, so what they build is well built.