British Standards ? Set me straight please ?

[bigandy]

£750 to be told how to do your job propperly, or come on here and ask for free :hurray:

I CAN JUST SEE IT NOW
JUDGE:-" SO WHERE BIGANDY DID IT SAY YOU COULD PARADE UP AND DOWN THE TOWN IN NOTHING BUT A MANKINI AND SHOUT GIBERISH AT ANYONE WHILST UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF STELLA?":yikes:
ME:- "WIVERS SAID IT WAS OK ON THE TILERSFORUMS AND THATS TO BRITISH STANDARDS!"

 

[DHTiling]

Nick....the bs5385 copy you posted in an up-dated section...new guidlines thats all...they do get updated every now and again.

The BSI's are a fortune and i aggree with the others...should be priced right...

 

[Leatherface]

Thanks for being so understanding, me for one hasn't got the spare cash to shell out for them. Even more so some of the guys starting off who are worried how far a few hundred quid will stretch towards buying tools.
Thank god for this Forum, better than any book !!

 

[Saltire69]

Rip off Britian as usual. America/Canada=$10(lets say £10) Britian =£750 :mad2:

 

[Rob Z]

There are a couple other reference standards here that are in place in the US and Canada. One is the ANSI standards book, there is another book by (I think I have this acronym right) CTIOA. I have the ANSI book (I think it was ~$20) and the CTIOA is a bit more, and doesn't have a whole lot more than what I have already gotten from the others. There is also a book from the NTCA (National TIle Contractors Association), but I don't think there is anything out of the ordinary in that.

It seems like somebody somewhere has decided to subsidize these standards books because it is in the best interest of the industry to get the good information out there to everyone in the field. Everyone can afford to buy one, and many of the manufacturers send them out to companies, contractors, etc as "compliments of *** company".

 

[Rob Z]

Some of the building and mechanical codes are quite expensive (multi-volume sets...might be ~$200 per set). There was some guy in the midwest that was posting some of the codes online. He was sued by his state for copyright infringement, and the court ruled in his favor. If I recall correctly, the legal reasoning was that because the codes have the force of law, the states cannot restrict the dissemination of them anymore than they can restrict the publication of public laws, ordinances, etc. The result was that the building codes are in the "public domain", and they can't be protected the same way an author may do with his or her own writings.

Maybe the time is right for some activist lawyer to make the same case in your courts. :smilewinkgrin: