A thousand years of history up in smoke because a workman set fire to the thatch.
They were torching some lead, next to a thatched roof, and set fire to it. Surely, even one of Adam's apprentices would have foreseen that risk?
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How negligent can you get?
Feb 04, 2022
Last reply: 4 years ago
25 Replies
I wonder what the claim limit on the contractor's insurance is?
Bill
GB laid this down on his screen :
Not surprised it caught fire, they were welding the lead..
Come on, this is DIY. Spark from welding equipment? Were they welding or soldering, I wonder.
I suspect "welding equipment" may well reflect an assumption from a journalist who doesn't understand what lead welding/burning or solder wiping involve.
that fire person looks quite happy that it wasn't his religion ...tee hee
On 04 Feb 2022, Rod Speed wrote
I thought you needed a hot-work permit for that sort of work, and assumed it would be like a construction management plan (but dealing with that specific job, rather than the whole project).
Never having the occasion to see a hot-work permit, though, it's quite possible that I'm assuming way too much about what level of detail the permits go into.
saw a fire run arond the building paper in a timber frame house regardless of the fire stop cavity barriers ... had to re-clad the whole house
I'm not Christian (are you?), but I'm still sad that a millennium of history has gone up in smoke.
but he wasn't smirk smirk
just as well it wasn't a new building
Especially if they hadn't performed a risk assessment :)
I've heard that line (or soemthing very similar) in the script of a musical. Blest f I can remember the name of the show,
Have you not considered divine intervention? Perhaps someone's god didn't like the thatched roof?
Just imagine how Suffolk heritage are going to put the restorers through the wringer.
Some friends of ours lost a reed thatched roof and most of the interior to a *Hall House* in a village high street near Diss. Still being rebuilt after more than 4 years.
It should get the benefit of the ecclesiastical exemption from local authority building consent.
And it's in Norfolk :)
I wonder if they were the same crew who were previously restoring Notre Dame?
Nick
Especially since the church was in Norfolk...
Same thing. They are all frightened of losing the tourist trade.
heard it in relation to a classic car crash .....
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