Yup, that was my view. So, a wee man puts in a new FRSC door to satisfy the FP (W) Regs, say, and WHAM! The might of Part M of the Building Regs hits him harder than Wallace hit the English at Stirling Bridge. So off he goes to read the crap (oops I mean your worthy colleagues' excellent AD M, WeeB, on which I would bet even more than I would on England screwing up in the final match, they never consulted you or the firey people at the ODPM) and falls off his chair when he reads what it says. ''never mind'' quoth he, I will just fit one of them there MDHs (or EVEN a fancy swing free closer). '' Oh dear'' he then goes, I aint got none of them there smoke detector things (but then does AD M even care?). ''Nil problemo'' he thinks, a couple of stand alone smoke detectors will do the trick and satisfy AD M. But oh dear dear, along comes the fire authority ( or maybe even the BCO, since we have just agreed that building work is involved) armed with the recent CACFOA ( or whatever they call themselves now ) policy doc, chuntering about an L3 AFD system (what the hell for- if the MDH is on one floor of a multi-storey building, why do we need AFD on all the other floors). No matter, the wee man says, I will just fork out £50,000 for an AFD system as well as the wee door. Eh, its enough to make wee Chrissy Houston go back into selling the stuff again (possibly with more success this time if the above fairy tale is to be believed). Do all these intelligensia of the civil service and the mighty CFOA and uncle Tom Cobley and all who seem to be writing the stuff and nonsense that those of us with dirty hands have to try to work these days with ever talk or stop to think, or do they draft it all while watching Coronation Street? I knew I should have stuck to vet medicine as a youngster. At least you can bin the excreta from cows.
