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Landlord electrical inspections from July!

Dear IET & HMG,

Please could you get your acts togother and co-ordinate your efforts in order that they correspond a little more with the Real World please?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_UN84w8brk

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  • Sparkingchip:
    Chris Pearson:

    Bear in mind that most private houses don't have escape routes, 


    I am not picking on Chris, but I rest my case.




    My first thought was that the requirement to prevent premature collapse everywhere had rendered a definition of "escape route" otiose, but see 422, which clearly does not apply to ordinary private houses. So a definition is still required.


    I could bore you with the difficulties I encountered in getting a licence for a student bar 40 years ago. The problem was that the doors giving access to a designated escape route were not permitted to open outwards into said route. Given that the building was new, one might have thought that the architects would have got that bit right. (The other bit that somebody got wrong was that the ramp into the cellar was so close to the ceiling at one point that even a firkin would not pass. ? )


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  • Sparkingchip:
    Chris Pearson:

    Bear in mind that most private houses don't have escape routes, 


    I am not picking on Chris, but I rest my case.




    My first thought was that the requirement to prevent premature collapse everywhere had rendered a definition of "escape route" otiose, but see 422, which clearly does not apply to ordinary private houses. So a definition is still required.


    I could bore you with the difficulties I encountered in getting a licence for a student bar 40 years ago. The problem was that the doors giving access to a designated escape route were not permitted to open outwards into said route. Given that the building was new, one might have thought that the architects would have got that bit right. (The other bit that somebody got wrong was that the ramp into the cellar was so close to the ceiling at one point that even a firkin would not pass. ? )


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