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On 2025-12-11 19:28, John R Walliker wrote:
> On 11/12/2025 18:16, Lars Poulsen wrote:
>> On 2025-12-11, Daniel James <
daniel@me.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 11/12/2025 04:12, c186282 wrote:
>>>> ... they just run lots of pipes on the outsides of the thick stone
>>>> walls. Works, but you`d never get away with that in modern
>>>> commercial buildings. Things have to look all neat and tidy.
>>>
>>> Have you SEEN the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris?
>>>
>>> ... or the Lloyds Insurance building in London, for that matter.
>>
>> I seem to remember hearing that there was an English building code that
>> REQUIRED outside pipes for water (and sewage?) so that they could be
>> easily thawed with a blowtorch when they froze in the winter?
>
> No, it was only done to save money.
It seems amazing to me doing that in Britain, were pipes can freeze. Now
I understand the description of an hotel (Devon) in a novel I`m reading
(Ruth Rendell, The secret house of death).
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Cheers, Carlos.
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