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Bloody effin ramps. when even my most wheelchair bound guest can leap

a

good 2 " in his chair.

If all the money we spend on disabled access, were given to disabled
people to buy whatever it is that meets their special needs - and

bloody

ramps it ain't, nor bloody sockets halfway up walls - then they would

be

happy, we would be happy, and we could shoot Blunkett with impunity.

How nice to read some common sense for once. Only 5% of diabled people
are wheelchair users, yet the disability stuff only addresses
wheelchair users. Duh. And as you say, ramps and chair access are the
last things the majority of disabled want or need.

Lifts are good.

So are custom designed kichens.

I lived in a house once with a mix of traditional low sockets and high
up ones. The high ones were forever dangerous, as the cord tends to
travel out as it travels down to the floor, so it was a constant
substantial trip hazard. It was also inconvenient and a total eyesore.

Would I be right in saying at least once a house is built you can
reposition your sockets where you want?

Well youi eed a completion certificarte first...
....and intehory,no you can't, because it represents a 'material
alteration' and would be retrograde if interpreted under the regs.

Inteh same way that I could not in theory spilt the large central
bedroom in my house into two, because one of its windows is not
'jumpable out of' according to fire regs.

Its the usal law of unintended consequences. 95% of building regs are
IMHO a damned good thing, but the politically inspired ones are a pain
in teh arse.

NT