Grenfell Tower block disaster

scary stuff and manchester and east manchester must take note that all the new and old buildings with cladding like that must take note
i live in ancoats and many of the old tower blocks have been re modernise with cladding just like them in london so i just hope the people who built them are using all the right stuff and no corners cuts

but saying that many of the new stuff around my way are not council built so i think all the right stuff been done but i will say last year when the wind was very bad the cladding was blown off a couple of the new buildings am talking about sheets of metal fly down from the flats
 
i saw an interview with one of the residents on bbc news, a young lad. i think he was on to something. they apparently spent 10m on refurbishing the building. seems like they did a terrible job. you have to question london councils and there decision making. they seem to want socially cleanse london of poorer people and are purposely letting buildings fall apart so they can ' regenerate' areas. regenerate seems to mean get rid of the poor people and move in the rich and then sell new buildings on for a profit.
 
10 million seems a lot ...Northwards doing 5 blocks for 15.3 Million for this same cladding



Not sure they'd spend 10 million to get rid of people
 
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Clevers said:
I think the £10million was the total spent on refurbishment including cladding sounded cheap to me.
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Northwards Housing said:
The total cost for all five blocks, including the window/balcony works and rainscreen cladding is £15.5m for all 470 flats (£33k per flat).
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The 10m, must be London prices but it is 8 floors higher too.

For my block 33k per flat is a mad amount of money to spend though. My flat doesn't have any issues at all so I'm still not sure why they are doing it.
 
You have to hope that the vast majority managed to escape. The speed of fire seems to indicate that this wasn't possible for all of those poor people.

Truly horrendous scenes of people at windows. The country has certainly taken a battering with the recent events and as I said we can only hope most people made it out.
 
Magicpole said:
You have to hope that the vast majority managed to escape. The speed of fire seems to indicate that this wasn't possible for all of those poor people.

Truly horrendous scenes of people at windows. The country has certainly taken a battering with the recent events and as I said we can only hope most people made it out.
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From what I've been reading the fire brigade told many people to stay in their flats.

Hope I'm wrong but I suspect the death toll is going to be absolutely horrendous.
 
west didsblue said:
From what I've been reading the fire brigade told many people to stay in their flats.

Hope I'm wrong but I suspect the death toll is going to be absolutely horrendous.
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Due to the assumed safety of each unit that has always been the advice. The fact that a catastrophic failure of that assumption means every other tower block needs checked and that advice will be changed because after this no one would heed it.
 
LFB have said that 65 were rescued, and also that many got out themselves. Have reached the top floor, but reaching the top floor is not classed as a "search".
 
After what happened to the twin towers there is no way i would stay put,it might be the best thing but my instinct would be to get out
 
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