https://nitter.net/Chris_arnade/status/1700906307635585395
Can someone help me understand why you can't open your windows all the way in Britain?
Landlords in the UK have a legal requirement to ensure that their property is safe for the occupants. In practice this means following a number of regulations set by the local authorities HHSRS (Housing health and safety rating system).
Most of these include a regulation on maximum window opening height to prevent people accidentally falling out of them, either purely by accident, or when in a "confused mental state" (this is mainly elderly people with dementia or something similar, and drunks).
There has to be at least one window with an openable area of 45x45cm for egress in case of fire or similar emergency iirc
Fire starts in the room with the only window that opens all the way…. Guess I’ll die!
All the doors have to be fire certified as well, and if the fire starts in the room with the escape window, then it's not going to be blocking the front and back doors for a while.
Usually pretty skeptical about complaints of "Nanny states" but the British government explicitly saying they don't trust their citizens to not fall out of open windows is pretty bleak
Holy shit.
This is only in the UK, yeah? I was surprised the first time I went to continental Europe that high-floor hotel windows would open entirely, with no screen. In the US, hotels do have windows that only open so far. Not the case with residential, though.
He's in a hotel. Hotels lock their windows like this for security reasons mostly.
Only in England. Which is both Neo Lib enough to have a safety litigation driven society, [...]
Tell me you don't know what neoliberalism is, without telling that you don't know
Stupid convoluted restrictions that make life worse for the sake of reducing insurance premiums on landlords seems pretty in line with it
95% of the year is perfectly tolerable, AC units are expense and buying them for one week every year isn't enough use to justify spending the money.
buying them for one week every year
With the way climate change is going, give that time.
Electricity was expensive in the UK 3 years ago. This year it literally doubled in price. Running AC here is prohibitively expensive for the average person.
Is that a skeleton key hole ? Just use a flat head screwdriver to open it.
He's in a hotel. Hotels lock their windows like this for many reasons. This is not a real England law.
i feel lucky to be in a place that has always experienced all the temperatures
type shit
