Re: RFD: create unmoderated newsgroup uk.tech.heating

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from Peter Parry <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:47:44 GMT, Rusty Hinge 2
> <rusty.hinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >The message <43ab6530$0$255$5a6aecb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >from andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Gabriel) contains these words:

> >I think you have an incorrect conception of the reasons for proposing
> >the group. I don't know about you, but uk.d-i-y would not spring to *MY*
> >mind as an obvious place to ask about plumbing in my Rayburn for
> >instance,

> But uk tech.heating would for a Cooker? Takes all sorts I suppose.

Mine tends to heat things. Yesterday it didn't, which tells me the
propane is *VERY* low...

> >or asking about how to make an American riser.

> Alt.religion.christian of course. Uk.politics if you must.

Hmmmm. No, not 'how do you make an American rise?' I don't need the
advice of a newsgroup to tell me how to do that... (There's just such an
exercise going on at the moment in a group not too far away from the
first of your suggestions.)

> >> Once in a while, someone suggests splitting uk.d-i-y into several
> >> component parts of which heating is one part, but such proposals
> >> have always failed to date (usually before even getting to the RFD).
> >
> >I think there is a clear need for hiving-off such a clearly-defined
> >compartment of DIY, especially as many of the likely questions will not
> >(legally) apply to DIYers.

> Which questions will not legally apply?

Fitting (say) a gas fire, geyser, etc., in tenanted property?

> >> Secondly, even supposing it was possible to have a UK heating
> >> newsgroup which was not DIY, where are those posts currently going?
> >
> >Outside the uk.* hierarchy, doubtless.

> Or, more likely, they just don't exist.

> >Having searched, our server carries no group with 'heating' in its
> >title. IMO, that's a good enough reason for creating the group,

> I can't find a single group anywhere (not just in the limited list
> you seem to use) which contains the word "Disodiumphosphate". Is
> that a good enough reason for creating a new group?

If enough people are interested, yes. Though I should think that
slightly more usenetizens (FVLVO slightly) would have reason to look for
heating than for disodiumphosphate. (Or even hydrogenated hydrogen
monoxide)

> >and I
> >back that up by assuring you that I would have looked for such a group
> >in a few weeks as I'm currently mining clay-lump blocks and stuff in the
> >kitchen chimneybreast (and introducing a FO big oak beam to stop it
> >dropping into the soup) to make a large enough drift into which to
> >squeeze a Rayburn.

> You might find dear old Google would have helped. Put Rayburn in to
> it on a group search and the first reference is to uk.d-i-y,,
> "chimney breast clay lumps" produces the same as does "clay lumps" or
> "big oak beam" (second reference in the latter two cases) so it
> wouldn't have been too hard.

I have no problems with Acrow Props, needles, RSJs, hammers, bolsters,
cold chisels, eclectic drills, bricks, mixing mortar, making or
reconstituting traditional clay-lump, seating and embedding beams,
making register plates, bronze welding copper pipe (Solder? Yeuk!),
brickwork, tiling, rendering, lining of chimneys, etc..

(Oh, and American risers!)

However, I am not at all conversant with Rayburn's
drip-drip-drip-drip-feed oilburner, the head of oil required to feed
same, regulations about siting of tanks and routing of fuel lines,
expected BTU output of the arrangement, etc. Some of this I can get from
the council, but I'd prefer to get the technical stuff from a concensus
of people who know about these things.

I feel that a group dedicated to heating will have a greater signal to
noise ratio than uk.d-i-y - however good the advice of *SOME* of its
habitués.

> >Fast-track!

> Porkine aviation?

Jet-propelled Pigs?

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Rusty
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