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Scot Dutchy wrote:I read through all those planning documents and never came across the subject of fire safety. The staircase was referred to as the fire escape but what is was made out of is not stated or the fire doors.
the landlord recently installed gas pipes in the stairwell, the stairwell is not lit, it's dangerous in there.
Fallible wrote:Yeah, thats because measures should keep a fire contained to the flat it started in for around an hour or two. Which is fine, if in your building those measures have been included in the first place.
DavidMcC wrote:Fallible wrote:Yeah, thats because measures should keep a fire contained to the flat it started in for around an hour or two. Which is fine, if in your building those measures have been included in the first place.
According to a BBC TV news report, such measures were originally included, but later modifications severely damaged the fire-resistance of the structure. The several identical-looking tower blocks surrounding it might well have been similarly modified, unfortunately. I have no specific information about that, but it's a reasonable guess, I think.
felltoearth wrote:It's not the cladding per se, it's whether fire stopping is installed behind the panels and if there is fire stopping and separation between units. Pipes and wiring feeds are huge contributors to fire spread.
Tzelemel wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:I read through all those planning documents and never came across the subject of fire safety. The staircase was referred to as the fire escape but what is was made out of is not stated or the fire doors.
This is third hand, but someone on reddit said he watched a BBC interview where a resident said most people stayed in the apartments because (and I quote the redditor here):the landlord recently installed gas pipes in the stairwell, the stairwell is not lit, it's dangerous in there.
ronmcd wrote:DavidMcC wrote:Fallible wrote:Yeah, thats because measures should keep a fire contained to the flat it started in for around an hour or two. Which is fine, if in your building those measures have been included in the first place.
According to a BBC TV news report, such measures were originally included, but later modifications severely damaged the fire-resistance of the structure. The several identical-looking tower blocks surrounding it might well have been similarly modified, unfortunately. I have no specific information about that, but it's a reasonable guess, I think.
Hopefully not, they appear to have completely different cladding, certainly not the aluminium type that was recently installed on that building.
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