G and J

Presumably they come with a remote clamp for the meter box?

Some will be better than none, even if it isn’t in the perfect place. Let’s hope they are never tested.

Other than the fact that my multi tool wouldn’t back to back blades like that ,no, I give up. Do tell.

Remember the first priority of any politician is to get re-elected.

It is indeed beautiful! We also missed step 2 (England) although we were careful to include as much detail of what we wanted in 1., with a statement "we expect to fine tune materials etc" and listened to their feedback for step 3. Application. Worked for us. Good luck

Our sides are within a meter of our boundaries and so we have to demonstrate reasonable precautions to prevent fire spreading from one property to another. Whilst they aren’t technically enforceable it would seem odd to me to be willing to spend money on things like a robot vacuum (a similar cost level) and not on something that might save a life. In my mind once a fire is bad enough to operate the strips the house is in real trouble, the key drive is to slow stuff down long enough for everyone to get out and the fire service to prevent spread between buildings. As for positioning, I’d agree that they will be less effective at ground level, but I’d also argue that one wouldn’t want a single strip atop a 6m cladding ‘chimney’.

I can imagine steel cavity closures round penetrations. I think the key thing is to close off the chimney (behind the cladding) when there is a fire.

We ran out of time before the plasterboarders booked arrival to osb every wall, so did this on a couple of areas of wall where we knew stuff was 'vaguely' golng. Has worked for us.

Didn’t know all that. Yet another French thing I like. There’s quite a long list of them.

Wasn’t ours either. But we really liked the fancy 8’ high front door with the long metal bar handle. It was only when it was installed we realised that it locked itself like a Yale lock, and that to open the door the key has to be turned with a fair bit of force as the key acts as a sort of door handle operating the mortise latch. Most of the time there’s a key sitting in the outside of our front door as I’d be forever locking myself out otherwise. The things one doesn’t think of asking/checking!

I’ve a distant memory of being told that it is ok if the bottom step is slightly less high than the rest, but a real no no if it’s higher. 25mm would be a lot to raise the bottom step by.

I like the idea of a two tier pricing system for essentials like lecky and water. I guess for me the concept that everyone deserves a fair basic allowance at a reasonable price is a very good one. The idea that the wealthy can disregard the scarcity of resources, thus pushing up unit costs for other users, is an uncomfortable one. So we charge wasteful/profligate users more for their usage above their basic ration and that pays for the required top up infrastructure rather than charging everyone for it. Goodness knows how such a pricing system would work but I’d vote for that.

Something about the US that makes sense. Who’d have thought it?

Rather than repair my beloved Makita multi tool again I bought a new one with tool-less blade change. I will repair the other one then sell it, but I’ll never go back from tool-less blade changing, it really does help. Rather than sort of struggle to do a whole job with a single blade I now happily swap blades and it speeds it up. I would never, ever think about a corded one though.

So do US regs vary significantly by region?