Maybe it's just a hang-up I have with the way some of the codes are worded, and a tendancy I have for trying to apply logic to a legal document. If I have a room that shares a common wall, it's treated one way, but if I double that wall up for extra fire safety and move it 12" away, all the sudden NEC wants me to treat it completely differently, which I think is BS- a room is a room whether it's sharing a wall or 30' away and should be treated the same way. I see outbuildings as merely extra rooms associated with the primary dwelling, maybe I'm wrong- as noted, this is not exactly my realm of expertise... But I see the shop as a dwelling sub-unit ("living") and see no logical reason it should be treated any different than a dwelling unit.
[This message has been edited by SteveFehr (edited 02-22-2007).]
