Lingmoor, it is easy for people to misunderstand comments on forums and take them the wrong way.
I will admit to being a little bit sarcastic with you because of your comment to my original post.
On reflection, after reading your recent explanation, maybe I did misunderstand your original post and took it as a sarcastic response to my own. Therefore I apologise to you for my own sarcasm in reply.
However, if I now read your post as you say it was meant to be, then it now means that your post actually was to be read , but in other words, 'I agree with all the above'. I now suggest to you that such a post doesn't add anything of use to the thread. No one knows who you are and so you can only qualify your advice with an explanation of why you give it. I would accept that if you had said 'I have 26 years experience in the Fire Service many years operational and many years in a dedicated fire safety field in charge of a department...and since retiring carrying out many fire risk assessments and I fully agree with all the above posts' then this might have been a worthwhile addition. I would respectfully put it to you that your post - What they said is not much of an addition to the thread. I hope you can see this? That I misread your post because it was immediately after my own is surely understandable in the circumstances.
I accept that many of my posts are long-winded. This is for many reasons but mainly because I find some of the shorter posts are open for misinterpretation or leave many obvious questions unanswered. I also believe that some people reading this 'open forum' have little technical background or fire service experience and need a fuller understanding of the many facets of the subjects discussed. I believe that this can rarely be achieved in just a few words. I generally restrict my own posts only to the technical and those general areas of other subjects because I have no knowledge or experience of those other areas. For example, I wouldn't know how to put out a fire if it reared up and burnt me! However I consider my knowledge and experience in some areas to be of worthwhile assistance to some readers of this forum. Like many others I give this input free-of-charge on this forum, whilst being able to charge handsomely for it in my 'day' job. I trust those members who already know what I am explaining, to understand that I realise this and not to take it as me trying to teach them to 'suck eggs'
Whilst sincerely apologising for my sarcasm due to misunderstanding your original post, I am disappointed with the tone of your last post to me. I was tempted to respond in a similar vein to correct a few of your wrong assumptions, but too many of these forums have been destroyed by childish personal battles between members.
I decline your invitation to join uk-fire for obvious reasons.
