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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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You do have to wonder how that cladding was available as a product in the first place.
The company sales rep said in that Times article that it's used for small commercial buildings and petrol stations - i.e. where there are much smaller areas involved and fire spreading across it wouldn't make much difference. Seems reasonable in that application.
If it is just for cosmetic purposes as I'm reading it, it does just seem to have been installed as a veneer to make the building look better for people who don't live there, and you have to ask yourself why that might be and why the money wasn't spent on actually improving the building in a meaningful way...
Fox
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.