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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?

-- 
Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California

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