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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
RBK&C in the news again... "It is deemed as having an unacceptable and harmful impact by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea," Yet they still haven't rehoused the survivors of Grenfell Tower 7 months on |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
The fallout from Grenfell Tower for similar privately owned properties. Residents asked to foot £2m bill to replace Grenfell-like cladding Residents of a privately-owned London tower block with the same cladding as Grenfell Tower may be forced to pay up to £2m for replacement panels. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Grenfell Tower cladding failed to meet standard but the details of later tests were not disseminated in a satisfactory manor. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
If the reports were available on its website, they are not now, and the CSTB was not able to provide them. The BBC obtained them through other sources.Hmm, wonder how that happened? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31012 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
If the reports were available on its website, they are not now, and the CSTB was not able to provide them. The BBC obtained them through other sources.Hmm, wonder how that happened? Did anyone check the wayback machine? |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22535 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Working on the edges of the safety and certification "industry" we all too often see "very poor" ratings being moved up one or more steps. Some of our clients are very diligent in their search for "good" materials. But some just look for the lowest initial price and assume we won't spot their corner cutting and get very upset when we spot the "cost saving" as being non-compliant with the regulations and tell them "No way Jose" and they have to start again (and we do mean "start again"). Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31012 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
https://apnews.com/312b9baddaa3479c93f70c68edfa9c19/Trump-once-fought-measure-requiring-sprinklers-in-buildings NEW YORK (AP) — The 50th-floor apartment in Trump Tower where a man was killed in a raging fire did not have sprinklers — a requirement Donald Trump once fought as a powerful real estate developer. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36826 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Leaked Grenfell dossier reveals how disastrous refurbishment turned tower into a 'tinderbox'. A report prepared as part of the police investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire has uncovered calamitous deficiencies in the installation of the windows, cavity barriers and cladding system, and their failure to meet building regulations.Cheers. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Whirlpool* tumble dryers still catching fire after modification. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44136939 * Sold as Hotpoint, Creda and Indesit brands |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Politicians are pretty free with the public purse... Cladding removal to cost taxpayers £400 million ...had they done their jobs right in the 1st place... |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
No outright ban on flammable cladding She will propose a tighter system of safety management throughout the life of a building in England, which would be led by the construction industry.Another case of the fox guarding the henhouse. Just wondering how large was that brown envelope. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22535 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
And later in the day a subtle change of tone, one that now implies that flammable cladding should be banned, and the government might actually do it. ABT. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Hmm, where have we seen this before? The design of the playground had specified durable oak to be used to support the swing, but a cheaper and less durable poplar wood was used, the inquiry heard.Sad |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22535 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
And add to that the fact that an annual inspection was missed due "chaotic and disorganised management was within the council". The corner didn't accuse the council of deliberate use of the wrong wood, but an inadvertent use of inappropriate wood" in the swing's structure by the designer and installer.Which is pretty damming of the way the whole council was operating. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22535 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
The emerging information about the cladding makes my blood boil. Hopefully the company, and its directors will find themselves up in court on corporate manslaughter charges. And then allow the civil lawyers their chance to chew them over on behalf of the victims. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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