I'm seeing a lot of red roofing battens being used around my area. Any idea what that's all about ? Simon.
red roofing battens
Oct 12, 2009
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Saw something in the building trade press about this. IIRC, someone decided that standard battens were being used as roof ladders by roofers, and they were never intended for this purpose. The red ones are intended to be used as roof ladders, and so when the H&S man sees red battens, the roofers don't get a bollocking for not using roofing ladders. Or something like that.
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timber merchant and they are not red. Are they not safe for use ? Who would "100 %" fail them ? I have no intention to "grade" them on site before use. Of course if one had a whacking great knot in it I may not use it ! Some common sense applies. Simon.
bottom graphic? If so, what is W3C compliance worth? Viewing with Firefox 3.5.3
They've run out of blue ones :-)
The marketing FUD department ;-)
As long as they are marked with the relevant BS, (BS5534 : 2003 according to above site), then I doubt it matter what colour they are!
Same here, I'm using Google Chrome.
mark
It looks fine here FF3.5.3 on Linux (with and without AdBlock) also looks OK (no extra content visible) with image display turned off.
Yes. It appears (in FF) if you Switch Rendering Engine to IE.
Chris
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