"Oz" wrote in message
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Jim Webster writes
but thaws awfully slowly if your only heat source is electricity in a
power
cut. The number of houses built with only electric and/or gas as power
sources is high enough to be worrying

Hmmm, I guess some people don't have gas BBQ's or the odd small bottogas
heaters then?


quite a lot I suspect. What would someone in the urban Northwest terraced
house want with a gas BBQ?

up here we can go for years without anyone suggesting a BBQ ;-))

There will be some but a lot of people will not have them

Jim Webster