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Originally Posted by Gayle
Well in all fairness to them, I've been in there lately (just testing out the chairs for size you understand) and the room is very, very much in disrepair. Plus, if they've been saving money over the last thirty years, let's just say for example £500 per year, that's £15k anyway. So swings and roundabouts, do it bit by bit each year or do it all at once every thirty years!
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Taking inflation into consideration, if they'd have spent your suggested 500 quid in 1974 that would have been an outrageous amount.
It isn't a false economy to spend relatively small amounts on the upkeep of a building, it's prudent. Much better to repair one single roof tile, than for a building to fall down if the rain gets in, and the whole thing has to be built again from scratch.
Not a popular concept with any political party, but then again they all only think five years hence, and not about the more long term, or bigger picture.