On Sun, 13 May 2018 13:12:48 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 2018 16:10:47 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 2018 16:00:03 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 2018 14:22:18 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 2018 01:04:17 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 2018 00:50:41 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 2018 00:10:12 +0100, wrote:

On Sat, 12 May 2018 17:43:18 -0400, Clare Snyder
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"On Slab" works good in Florida where anything resembling a basement
is liable to become an indoor swimming pool - up here in the higher
elevations and more temperate to cold regions, full basements are the
rule rather thanthe exception - almost always conditioned and used as
extra living /utility space.

Furnace in the attic? Not up here. It's in the "basement" - generally
along with laundry and a "rec room" - often an additional bathroom,-
and sometimes even a bedroom or 2.

I am aware of the basement thing but a lot of them still have water
problems. You are right, a basement here is going to be an indoor
pool. You can dig a well with a post hole digger. It is just nasty
water.
Most of those "bedrooms" are illegal since they don't have proper
egress. The "window well" in a basement does not provide enough clear
space to call that an egress so you need a door to the outside in the
bedroom(s)..

What's wrong with going through the door you entered? My normal bedroom has a window, but it's only the top bit that opens, so I can't leave through it without violently smashing toughened double glazing with a heavy object I don't have in the bedroom. But then I'm not a pessimist and don't require two forms of exit.

It is all about what happens if the house is on fire and you wake up
in a room full of smoke. They don't want you to have to go towards the
fire. You certainly don't want to be trapped in the basement if the
fire is upstairs.

Well in my standard bedroom on the 1st (USA) or ground (UK) floor, I can still only get out of the door. The window only opens at the top. And anyone with a 2 storey house who sleeps upstairs has the same problem. Unless someone provided a ladder for you to climb down, you're ****ed.

They sell the hell out of these
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Kidde-2-...8093/202066899

I don't know anyone in the UK with one of those. Maybe Americans are stupid, sorry stoopid, and set more fire in their own homes?

Maybe they are just easier to scare.


Mabee they just value their lives more and think beyond the end of
their noses???