Fire Safety in Timber Frame Construction (Construction Phase)

[colin todd]

Wee B How can you have the fourth side of a triangle.  Anyway I thought the fourth side was all to do with free radicals, though what Brexit supporters have to do with fire I am sure I dont know.

Dunnster, you know Brian's wee book, well mutiply the length of it by 10 and you would have the disdain book.  But I am bound to admit I love the word disdain.  See that's what keeping grammar schools in NI has done- given eloquence to the population.  Had you been educated in Souf Landan, you would have called it something like pooh pooh.

Buckles, did you mention that they are not Scottish?  But I loved the reference to Jimmy B, who I sometimes give a thought to as I drive down Tooley Street (with the car doors locked obviously).  Today of course he wouldn't have been in Tooley Street; he would have been in Gold Command, probably somewhere in Cornwall. He actually went to the same Edinburgh school as I did (though clearly some time before) and of course set up a fire brigade in Edinburgh before London.  It is also a scurrilous lie that the Met were the first police force as Edinburgh had one first. But we Edinburgh people often travel to third world areas such as London to help the natives, so I try to follow in Jimmy's footsteps by helping our very good friends the LFB as much as I can.  Though it is often a thankless task, Jimmy will be waiting to shake my hand for my valiant efforts when I shuffle off this mortal coil.

[kurnal]

I am at a loss to see what this has to do with fire safety in timber framed construction? Such off topic ramblings should be confined to the meeting room please.

[wee brian]

The more posts you get in a subject, the more random they get - its the law. I think we answered the question after the first few posts....

[colin todd]

Ok Big Al, you grumpy old man, mea culper (or in LFB-ese, aw wite guv its a fair cop).  It is just I was getting bored of timber- we do timber fire spread calculations to determine cost effective frame construction vs separating distances by the bucketload.  If you want the proper answer, no, I am afraid reducing probability of ignition is not the answer.  Risk is a combination of probability and consequences. It is not enough in this case to say that, because of control over ignition sources, its not very very likely we will wipe out the neighbouring street.

But like my good friend quite, but not very, dimensionally challenged B, I thought that UK had had his answer in the earlier posts.