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   On 2025-12-11 19:28, John R Walliker wrote:   
   > On 11/12/2025 18:16, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-11, Daniel James  wrote:   
   >>> On 11/12/2025 04:12, c186282 wrote:   
   >>>> ... they just run lots of pipes on the outsides of the thick stone   
   >>>> walls. Works, but you'd never get away with that in modern   
   >>>> commercial buildings. Things have to look all neat and tidy.   
   >>>   
   >>> Have you SEEN the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris?   
   >>>   
   >>> ... or the Lloyds Insurance building in London, for that matter.   
   >>   
   >> I seem to remember hearing that there was an English building code that   
   >> REQUIRED outside pipes for water (and sewage?) so that they could be   
   >> easily thawed with a blowtorch when they froze in the winter?   
   >    
   > No, it was only done to save money.   
      
   It seems amazing to me doing that in Britain, were pipes can freeze. Now    
   I understand the description of an hotel (Devon) in a novel I'm reading    
   (Ruth Rendell, The secret house of death).   
      
   --    
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES??, EU??;   
      
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