On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:14:54 +0100, Ed Sirett
wrote:

Surely. The copies at gas training schools and assessment centres are
virtually chained to the desk.

There is a great deal of stuff in there which is outside the ordinary and
every day scope of domestic gas fitting. Much of the really important
stuff has been transcribed into various gas fitting books which are
available for a modest cost.

The stuff that isn't important might still be interesting. I find
myself reading computer and interenet standards all the time as you
can't totally trust the books.

I agree that making the BSI documents unaffordable is very counter
productive when things like the electric and building regs are available
at reasonable cost of for free.

What's really annoying is that if you buy something from screwfix for
example and it says "to BS xxxx" in the description, then you have no
idea what it means, and no cheap way to find out.

Mr F.