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There is a lot of good reason to follow that rule, I do the same thing. The lumber yard where I worked years ago, had a contractor doing some plumbing work on a friday afternoon, maybe a heating repair, was winter time and cold, I remember seeing the guy sweating pipe joints in between old wooden timber joists, the building was over 100 years old. Later that evening, it went up, hardware store, main office, and the old stable converted into a pine lumber shed, we called it the pine shed. I'm sure it was the old timber that was scorched or something not seen smoldering, rumor was it was done intentionally to look that way, who knows, but the raging fire that followed was one of the biggest fires I've ever seen. Years back, many of the old timber and brick breweries burned and were probably the worst fires they ever had to fight, but this was a close 2nd. Old buildings had a lot of character, not exactly the safest, one area where they kept the rough hardwoods for the mill shop kind of escaped, fire went high and fast, that repair should have been started in the morning, the area soaked first and someone on alert, carelessness, those firefighters had a real tough time on that one. Our punch clock was near the store front, I remember pulling my singed time card out of the rack, was the only one who came in the next day and made all the deliveries that could be done.
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