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Re: Smoke alarms and roof space fires
Posted by:
Gerald Hurst (IP Logged)
Date: May 07, 2007 10:29AM
The space immediately above the timber ceiling does, on average, experience a slight partial vacuum. Were this not the case, there would be no driving force for the inflow of fresh air through the slats.