Smoke alarms, approx fitting costs

[Tim Watts]

Or may already be overcome with fumes if it's a fast fire.

[Tim Watts]

I have no idea who that is, so I may have missed a joke :)

No - it was an Iranian bloke (well Brit now, obviously)

[Huge]

Not that anyone gives a shit. Especially since the useless pieces of junk are valid for 10 years, IIRC.

[Andrew]

The 'snug' is the room that the dog prefers.

PS Do northerners have such a room with such a daft name ?.

[Andrew]

What about auction sales, which are implicitly 'buyer beware', even if there is a legal pack ?.

[alan_m]

Upstairs or downstairs?

[spuorgelgoog]

"properties that aren't fit to live in, or are going to be demolished" are exempt from the home report requirement. AFAICS auction properties are not exempt.

I think it's a slippery end of a sloping wedge, a very dangerous principle, etc. What will be the next thing the govt will force homeowners to pay for?

Owain

[alan_m]

T'up north every pub has a snug where the patrons bring in their whippets.

Down sarf most pub snugs were ripped out in the 1960s drive towards modernisation and formica bar tops.

[charles]

It doesn't need to be a TV. A few weeks ago the hotel I was in was evacuated at 5am - turned out tehnfire was caused by a phone charger.

[Tim Watts]

On 20/03/18 15:59, alan_m wrote:>>

[Tim Watts]

What's a "snug" look like (I live in York for a few years, not heard the term)

[Huge]

Whatever they like. Socialists love spending other people's money.

[tabbypurr]

What do you propose, rubber bullets fired round the room at random?

NT

[DJC]

There is no 'home report' in England, the only remnant of that failed attempt is the energy cert (an EU imposition) which everybody knows is worthless.

[tabbypurr]

vertised for sale in Scotland (with a few exceptions). Solicitors and estat e agents wouldn't handle a property without it if it's required as they'd b e liable for the fine:

07 The person responsible for marketing a house must have a Home Report and must give a copy to any potential buyer who asks for it. Anyone who does n ot do this may get a penalty charge notice from an authorised officer of a local authority. In cases like this, the regulations prescribe a penalty ch arge of £500.

Marketing is not sale, and £500 is no deterrent to people selling a gu tted house. Nor a £200,000 house.

NT

[alan_m]

Quote from a random Google search "The snug was for patrons who preferred not to be seen in the public bar. Ladies would often enjoy a private drink in the snug in a time when it was frowned upon for women to be in a pub. The local police officer might nip in for a quiet pint, the parish priest for his evening whisky, or lovers for a rendezvous"

Pubs used to have 3 or more bars separated by wood or wood/glass partitions, often with their own door to outside. The smaller of these rooms was often referred to as the snug. You may still find this arrangement in older 'historic' buildings/pubs but over the past 50 to

70 years these walls have been ripped out of most pubs in order to provide more space for custom and to make this custom visible to the staff. That's assuming that the pub doesn't have the invisible customer policy interrupting the social life of the staff.

When I was a lad and of (underage) drinking age many of the pubs in my area had both a public bar and a saloon bar with much higher prices for the same drink in the latter. Many of these pubs insisted on a tie or jacket before being allowed into the saloon bar and often resulted in the pubic bar being packed and the saloon being empty. You may find many pubs with two doors to a public and saloon bar but once in you may find that they have been combined into one drinking or food area.

[Tim Watts]

True - it's probably more to do with the fact no Estate Agent would deal with it.

[Tim Watts]

Ah. Reminds me of the Cittie of Yorke pub in Holborn, London:

Those semi private alcoves were said to be liked by barristers discussing business with their clients.

Nice pub...

[alan_m]

Search the page in the following link for the word "snug"

[Tim Watts]

Interesting... Both those pubs were just a bit outside the usual student routes which probably explains why I've never been in either.