"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:18:39 +0100, "nightjar" nightjar@insert my
surname here.uk.com had this to say:


"Guy King" wrote in message
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The message
from "nightjar" nightjar@insert my surname here.uk.com contains
these words:

adjust the screw on the ballcock arm so that the ballcock doesn't
rise
as
high, if it's on a metal arm, bend it slightly downwards (only about
half
an inch).

Bending the arm is not now permitted.

Seriously? What prawn dreamed that one up?

The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999 require that water
fittings meet one of the approved standards and they only cover a device
that has not been subjected to unauthorised modification.

Bending the arm is an accepted method of adjustment, not a
modification.

It is not one accepted by the regulations. To judge by the number of drop
arms I supply to storage cistern manufacturers, is is not one they expect to
be used either.

So is cutting a piece of copper pipe to the correct length an
unauthorised modification? After all, it was supplied in a standard
length :-)

That is a supply pipe, not a water fitting.

Colin Bignell