Personally, I feel sorry for the guy. Fridges are almost certainly the most reliable appliance in the home. Some of them last so long the owners chuck them out just because they want a change. And, in the unlikely event a fridge does go wrong, it just stops working. Of course there's always the remote possibility that the bloke had a gas fridge. But they were ultra reliable in their day too. I think the Daily Mail have done their usual thing and clutched at straws in an attempt to blame someone or something.
If anyone wants to sign a petition to get changes made to tower blocks here's the link. Started by someone in Southampton. https://www.change.org/p/theresa-ma..._s8nzHggkDobjTZmZxpTHxlOYpKyCPTeVe39esm6LezM=
That article is like they couldn't work out of they wanted to condemn him or call him a hero so they just did both and went the extra mile by harassing him.
Shouldn't need to be signing petitions for this. It's bloody ridiculous. But I have, as it one of the few ways the subject will be pushed up the debate queue. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought there was to be a gradual phasing out of tower blocks because, as Chilco put it, they have been an experiment which has proved, long term, to be a wrong 'un.
There's still plenty around the country. i would imagine the problem has a lot to do with available space to built houses or smaller blocks of flats. It's easier for councils to just refurbish. This could be a turning point and we see a determination to change. Let's hope so.
Yes, but you don't see new builds. In Glasgow, for instance, they've demolished several h-rise blocks after resettling their tenants in new or refurbished two storey council homes. What I'm saying is that, usually now, they re-house, in two storey, or much, much lower block apartments, rather than upgrade the existing hi-rise building. Is this a symptom of there not being enough new council houses being built in the South.?
I don't think there are enough being built anywhere in the country. It's more crowded in the SE so I assume less room to build.
You might be surprised, but there's plenty of room. All those brown field sites that need to be properly decontaminated first. Loads of those around in cities. Will they do it though.? St Mary's Stadium is a brown field site, so while some Saints fans may groan at the location, I applaud it.
So much for building regulations. You see, it IS because of cheaper materials that buildings like this can be legal and yet unsafe.
As soon as I wrote it I knew it was wrong. Plenty in Southampton. Don't like 'em. Let's say... you don't see many then.
The Queen and Prince William are going to meet hospitalised victims from Grenfell Tower today, apparently.
Cladding for Grenfell Tower was cheaper, more flammable option the Grenfell Tower was the cheaper, more flammable version of the two available options, an investigation of the supply chain has confirmed. Omnis Exteriors manufactured the aluminium composite material (ACM) used in the cladding, a company director, John Cowley, confirmed to the Guardian. He also said Omnis had been asked to supply Reynobond PE cladding, which is £2 cheaper per square metre than the alternative Reynobond FR, which stands for “fire resistant” to the companies that worked on refurbishing Grenfell Tower. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-grenfell-tower-identified-as-omnis-exteriors Disgusting
