FOIL INSULATING PAPER
“No Added Fire Hazard”
Foil paper used for insulating interior walls and ceilings could not be considered an added fire hazard, the Chief Fire Officer (Mr L. R. Osmond) told the Christchurch Metropolitan Fire Board. He was reporting on a protest by the Canterbury Master Plumbers' Associtaion against the use of the material. “I cannot see why the plumbers should consider it an added hazard, because it has been used fa other farms far a number of years,” Mr Osmond said. Ifliere was nothing in the bulldins regulations to prevent the use of the material, be said. Plumbers had probably considered the material a fire hazard because they were using gas cylinders and naked flames now where fa the past they would have used soldering irona. With copper spouting they were using burning torches when the spouting was in place on the job. Sparrows’, nests and accumulated leaves and dirt could be just a# hazardous when naked flames were being used, Mr
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28766, 11 December 1958, Page 25
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