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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: wee brian on January 26, 2006, 04:47:01 PM

Title: Hosereels
Post by: wee brian on January 26, 2006, 04:47:01 PM

Is anybody in the UK still asking for hosereels to be fitted in buildings?

Title: Hosereels
Post by: colin todd on January 26, 2006, 10:33:17 PM

Your DS friends who still believe that s20 rools ok.

Title: Hosereels
Post by: wee brian on January 27, 2006, 12:10:58 PM

Yes I know about them, but is there anybody sensible who is still doing it?

Title: Hosereels
Post by: colin todd on January 27, 2006, 02:14:48 PM

Doubt it. Will you be returning my telephone call of today. I have just paid my tax bill, and I am sure some of the dosh is going to you. Would have liked to chat by the end of the day.

Title: Hosereels
Post by: Tom Sutton on January 28, 2006, 10:10:54 AM

WHY! What is so wrong about Hosereels? What does DS mean.

Title: Hosereels
Post by: Graeme on January 28, 2006, 01:21:40 PM

They are a breeding ground for cholera but good for washing cars.

Title: Hosereels
Post by: colin todd on January 28, 2006, 06:13:45 PM

The theory is that they encourage people to stay in buildings too long.  Its horses for courses of course. DS= District Surveyor. London building control officer to you, some of whom have always tended to rant in German and talk about lebensraum and invading Poland if you didnt want hose reels in a building in Inner London to which s20 of the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939 applied.

Title: Hosereels
Post by: colin todd on January 28, 2006, 06:15:09 PM

When I was young, cars themselves were just a breeding ground, in which you could catch all sorts of things, but cholera was the least obvious.

Title: Hosereels
Post by: dave bev on January 29, 2006, 02:34:46 PM

was there as much headroom in cars years ago, as there is now?

Title: Hosereels
Post by: Graeme on January 29, 2006, 09:30:20 PM

I don't think the wheel had been invented yet..
Only Kidding.
 ah the memories of my 1st car-a mark 1 Fiesta that cost more to insure than what the car was worth.