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Plastic cable clips!

Are they completely banned now? What about vertical switch and socket drops which will be plasterboarded over? Would this situation be exempt?
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    Alasdair Anderson:




    whjohnson:

    What about an inflammable means of support attached directly to a flammable surface? 




    You have to be careful with your use of terms - unfortunately 'inflammable' means the same as 'flammable'. What you mean is "a non-flammable means of support" (which I admit is obvious from your following sentence). I just raise this to make sure you don't accidentally specify an inflammable means of support and have no recourse when wood is used.

    (For information: inflammable = something which can be inflamed (set fire to) and flammable = something which can burn)

    You may think this is being pedantic, but if the wrong word is used in a specification it can be a problem and the lawyers are far more pedantic than I am.



    From the OED: "1959   Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) 10   In order to avoid any possible ambiguity, it is the Institution's policy to encourage the use of the terms ‘flammable’ and ‘non-flammable’ rather than ‘inflammable’ and ‘non-inflammable’."


    The use of "flammable" was very much frowned upon at my school, but OED allows it as a synonym for "inflammable" which is much the older word.

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    Alasdair Anderson:




    whjohnson:

    What about an inflammable means of support attached directly to a flammable surface? 




    You have to be careful with your use of terms - unfortunately 'inflammable' means the same as 'flammable'. What you mean is "a non-flammable means of support" (which I admit is obvious from your following sentence). I just raise this to make sure you don't accidentally specify an inflammable means of support and have no recourse when wood is used.

    (For information: inflammable = something which can be inflamed (set fire to) and flammable = something which can burn)

    You may think this is being pedantic, but if the wrong word is used in a specification it can be a problem and the lawyers are far more pedantic than I am.



    From the OED: "1959   Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) 10   In order to avoid any possible ambiguity, it is the Institution's policy to encourage the use of the terms ‘flammable’ and ‘non-flammable’ rather than ‘inflammable’ and ‘non-inflammable’."


    The use of "flammable" was very much frowned upon at my school, but OED allows it as a synonym for "inflammable" which is much the older word.

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