They worked for three weeks. The old single-skinned steel tank in the garden was exhumed—leaking, rusty, a monument to a careless age. In its place, Arthur installed a gleaming, double-skinned, polyethylene tank with a sensor in the interstitial gap, exactly as BS 5410-3 demanded (Clause 7.4.2.3). If the inner skin wept biofuel, the outer skin would catch it, and a red light would flash on a panel in Mrs. Hillingdon’s kitchen.
Mrs. Hillingdon’s cottage was a crooked Tudor jewel. Arthur arrived with a young apprentice, Mira, who had a degree in sustainable engineering and a disrespect for his tweed jacket. bs 5410-3
“Impossible,” he said. Then he smiled. Pendeltons had never done impossible. They worked for three weeks