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Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)
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Lots of people have front door locks that require a key to be locked, even from the inside. Seems a risky idea - either you don't bother locking the door when you are home or you risk stumbling around in a smoke filled room in the event of a fire.
We have a yale and a 5 lever lock. Only use the yale if we are home and downstairs.
In our old house we had a front door like that. I kept the key on a magnet attached to the top of the inside of the door, so always available for people to get out if there was a fire or something.
My in-laws' house is, IMO, a death-trap as far as night time fire is concerned. You come down the stairs into a narrow hallway where the front door is straight in front of you. They keep the keys on a hook by the back door, so you have to double back on yourself and go through the whole of the house (including through the kitchen) to get them. When LNE was alive I tried to get him to talk to them about it, but to no avail.
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Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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Not around my way it wouldn't!:)
Hello dinofabio - I don't remember seeing you on the NPT before. Are you new? If so, welcome. Come in, pull up a chair, grab a beer/coffee etc and tell us a bit about yourself. :hello:Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Lydia, what a great idea about key.
Viva, you are lucky your family takemsecurity so seriously. A lot of people who work in the industrynhave a 'doctor's children' approach.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Viva, you are lucky your family takemsecurity so seriously. A lot of people who work in the industrynhave a 'doctor's children' approach.
My uncle was a fireman. When he was alive he made us all have plans as to how to get out of the house in a fire - in line with Lydia's earlier post - so that's very much the type of family I come from.
Recently I had to do one of those online training courses at work regarding fire safety. It's a half an hour tick the box thing. Half an hour of knowing what fire extinguisher to use where. Nowhere in the quiz did they tell you to point at the base of the fire:eek:.
Fwiw my fireman uncle also thought the most important thing that most houses don't have is a fire blanket for the kitchen. They are so cheap too.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Fire safety is often tick box approach imo. There were ire extinguishers here when we arrived ( great) but the place was falling down). But they could tick a box for that aspect of h and s0
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lostinrates wrote: »Fire safety is often tick box approach imo. There were ire extinguishers here when we arrived ( great) but the place was falling down). But they could tick a box for that aspect of h and s
Sorry lir but that did make me chuckle. I was in a foul mood part of yesterday. I could definitely have done with one of those.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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vivatifosi wrote: »Sorry lir but that did make me chuckle. I was in a foul mood part of yesterday. I could definitely have done with one of those.
Np thread is ire extinguisher.
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lostinrates wrote: »Lydia, what a great idea about key.
Thanks. Of course, it only works if the key is magnetic, which not all of them are. You tend to get weird looks if you go to get a new key cut and take a magnet with you to test their blanks before getting them to cut a new key for you.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
My parents' house had slightly dodgy locks - you had to "know" which key would open which door and where it was kept .... and each key was also old, so you also had to "have the knack" with it. Once out of the front door, there was a front porch and it'd have been so easy to get trapped in there in a fire either because you forgot to take the porch key out with you, or you couldn't get the key to unlock the door. It was only me and dad who could do the doors; mum never had to and siblings never cared to as they knew it was fiddlesome so they'd wait for somebody else to sort it out.
When I was recently living in S'Banks, the door/lock was original and took some faffing to get it open/closed, but I managed to work out the system on that one after I'd spent 15 minutes on two occasions just trying to lock it for the night...
As for fires in houses - one of the first things I spot on houses are the windows. So many big windows have one tiny top opener.... that you couldn't reach in a fire, or climb out of without a good ladder, a sphelte body and somebody to catch you the other side.0
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