"social housing" cooker?

[mark.hannah]

What on earth is a social housing cooker?

[Andy Hall]

intended by virtue of its specification and price to go into social housing?

[mark.hannah]

Surley some kind of discrimination!

[Stephen Howard]

>Mark.>>One

The phrase 'social housing cooker' seems to throw up only Belling models - but there's no mention ( as far as I can see ) of the term on the Belling site. As you say, I'd guess it means a cooker that's basic, robust and relatively inexpensive...in which case I have 'social housing boots' on.

Regards,

[Andy Hall]

Maybe this is a model made by Belling and normally sold to local authorities for maintenance of their housing stock. There's a New World gas one as well.

I would imagine that the LAs specify something that is low cost, sturdy and without frills.

Presumably Screwfix is selling to small contractors who do LA work.

It doesn't seem any more discriminatory than the terms "social housing", "council house" etc. These things are what they are so there is no need for euphemism

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'd *guess* it's one which conforms to the basics for a grant for buying such things.

[Owain]

It may also be so that it's less tempting and likely to be stolen by tenants, if it's not a model readily available on the high street. For a similar reason a lot of school audio-visual equipment used to be made in non-consumer styles of coloured plastic.

Owain

[Man at B&Q]

One that will quickly turn into a rusty heap when dumped in the front garden?

MBQ

[Mark]

> Mark.

It's one that comes with factory installed stalactites of fat hanging off of it.

mark

[geoff]

In message , [e-mail] writes

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

Something to keep the cans of Special Brew warm on.