Perhaps my problem with the whole idea of too many standards. At a certain point we are overcome with standard overload. The original idea was to make the code easier to enforce. We ended up making it more complicated. Florida has codified everything but the NFPA electric code and some parts of the fire code, adopting NFPA standards as written. I suspect Florida end up rewriting the whole thing into the FBC ... as soon as THEY figure out what the NFPA standard acttually says. My main beef with NFPA is the way they will reference another standard, without quoting the text they reference. In my smoke detector quest I actually followed the references and in no case was the reference more than a few dozen words ... but without another $100 book, you couldn't read them. It was clear they were just selling books. I have lived intimately with the NEC for over a decade as an inspector. I understand how it is developed. The mob rule process they have to "improve" this document has simply made it a Fibber McGees closet of contradictory rules that get reshuffled every 3 years, fixing one problem and creating two more. Why should every stupid thing someone MIGHT do be in the law anyway?