Subj : Re: Inside out (Was: More on wifi range - Pi PICO W Oil level sensor) To : All From : Carlos E.R. Date : Thu Dec 11 2025 21:59:29 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??; --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10) .