"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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David wrote:

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Laurie wrote:


My builder is telling me that building regs now states that socket and
switch heights should be greater than 450mm and less than 1200mm from
the
finished floor level.

Is this true? the switches look so low!


Yes, he is correct.

This is so people in wheelchairs can plug in their SDS drills and rewire
their houses.

Starngely, they haven't required us to put teh light fittings at 120mm
or less, so they wheelchair bound can change their lightbulbs.


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But it is so effin stupid.


LOL. I'd never heard about this and my immediate thought was yes,
it's the PC brigade gone mad again; but then I thought - with regard
to light switches at least, what's wrong with positioning them at 1m
height? It's just that we're conditioned to light switches being at
shoulder height, for no good reason that I can see (cue for somebody
to post a good reason!). So why not?


Funnily enough we were discussing this last night with me mates old dad,
and he DOES find high sockets useful - he can hobble around on severely
arthritic knees etc, but bending is a tad hard.

As far as switches go, again its no big deal to put em lower down where
kids can reach them..

But the high electrical sockets do have a downside - cables no longer
lie along the floor. This may constitute a hazard in its own right.

Nonsense. I have Part M sockets. No problems at all. Brilliant for all
people.

The phrase 'being strangled by legislation' has been arournd a long time
as the cry of the sof tory business voter and frankly I had always heard
it as 'wolf'...but now, as an ordinary citizen, it is beginning to make
a terrifying sort of sense.

Well introduce LVT and get rid of the 1947 T&C planning act. Very simple.




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