Health and Safety gone mad

[Kestrel]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ounds.html

[YNMR]

Nice layout however if you look at the first picture the chimney stack has a large crack in it & where are the roof timbers they appear to have been removed - if they have the roof will be considerably weakened. If he wanted to undertake the building of his layout in the loft he would have benn wise to seek his landlords permission & to get approval for any alterations as building regulations may have been breached in this case?
Teign Housing are asking him to remove it so they can fully inspect the roof to make sure it is safe.

[Rlangham]

Hardly 'health and safety' gone mad, it's a legitimate concern - it even says in the text they only want it removed so they can do a safety assessment, would he rather the house fall down? Another non-story from the Daily Fail, playing on the fears of the average health and safety/political correctness hating public (or some bizarre mixture of health and safety and political correctness which is sometimes seen...)

[strang steel]

Nice layout however if you look at the first picture the chimney stack has a large crack in it & where are the roof timbers they appear to have been removed - if they have the roof will be considerably weakened. If he wanted to undertake the building of his layout in the loft he would have benn wise to seek his landlords permission & to get approval for any alterations as building regulations may have been breached in this case?
Teign Housing are asking him to remove it so they can fully inspect the roof to make sure it is safe.

I presumed that he had just boarded over the roof timbers. After all, he has put plywood there, and he would have to attach it to something.

[Mr Bunt]

I'm wondering whether the housing association involved employ, or have ever even met, a structural engineer.

To you or I the answer to 2 + 2 is 4.

Ask a structural engineer what it is and they'll say something like "In the ordinary course of events it'd be 4, but I think we should double that to be on the safe side".

The idea of a model railway compromising the structural safety of a house or that panelling over the joists in the loft makes the roof somehow unsafe (and it's clear he's done that) is just absurd. Still, in the present depressed economic situation I suppose we must expect people without a real job to do to grasp at anything which makes it look as if they're doing something

[richard]

Perhaps we should have a site wide ban of all Daily Mail stories, due to gross inaccuracies and political mongering?

[auldreekie]

Whilst I do not have the slightest sympathy for the Daily Mail's predictable bias and lack of concern for balance and probably even the truth, I'd think this was a good idea only if it extended to various other organs of the press, whose political persuasions are otherwise in some instances, but which share many of the Mail's vices, in some instances adding a few of their own....


auldreekie