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  • So we're fairly certain at this point that it was the cladding?

    Who would prefer to live in stranger's house instead of a hotel?

    EDIT: not exactly true then..still, hotels seem more efficient in the short term.

  • Who would prefer to live in stranger's house instead of a hotel?

    Me.

    Probably anyone with a family.

  • So we're fairly certain at this point that it was the cladding?

    Some discussion on Today this morning about how it could have been a failure to install it properly and that fire breaks should have been installed to stop the fire spreading across the face of the building.

    That said The Times front page story seems pretty damning if the manufacturer is saying it shouldn't have been installed on a building that high.

    All this apparently to save £5k, it's outrageous.

  • Sounds like a perfect storm tbh.

    Highly flammable cladding.

    Redundant fire alarms.

    No sprinkler system.

    One fire escape.

    Worrying thing is about 4000 other tower blocks across the country with potentially the same powder keg refurb.

    You do have to wonder how that cladding was available as a product in the first place.

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