For the first time in history people lived in houses completely surrounded
(floors, walls and ceilings) with "cheap" machine-produced building
materials.

John<

Good points! If our forefathers had power tools and mass-produced nails,
they wouldn't have hesitated to use them.

Mike E.
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Yeah, and if there had been consumer product legislation their customers
would have been suing them for not using a plumb and level.

Bruce