New building regulations for bathrooms - Unbelieveable.

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Originally Posted by divine

To be fair, has anyone actually read the regulations to see what the limits will be?

Or is everyone just angry and outraged over something that might turn out to be entirely sensible?

I don't think you quite understand where people are mostly coming from.
It's not so much the temperature aspect (though in part it is), it's the fact that this is H&S sticking their nose into something that really doesn't need regulated. I'll quite happily agree it's a sensible temperature limit, but it isn't actually necessary.

This isn't the first time and it's almost certainly not going to be the last time that they've stuck noses in and regulated stupid stuff. The more and more they restrict the more and more people are getting pissed off, and the more and more such basic principles as "common sense" just get thrown out the window. If I run a bath of hot water, common sense tells me to check the temperature first rather than just assuming it's right.
Do we really want to be encouraging people with the a level of instictive stupidity so low that they don't? Do we really want to allow them to breed?

This isn't an H&S case, but it's an example of the type of social stupidity they're encouraging: We got rid of sharp knives at the table and put round nosed ones there instead to reduce injuries to self and others.. and now have the rediculous situation whereby if I order a steak I have to have a seperate sharp knife delivered. It never used to be necessary, and it didn't actually achieve anything other than added inconvenience. If someone wants to attack someone with a knife, they'll just order steak, or probably more than half the time in 'high society' find the steak knives are already on the table anyway to go with their meal.
It gained nothing, probably saved no one, and just causes additional cleaning.