Collapsing

[Baron99]

13 hours ago, Bargepole23 said:

Gets a mention and a photo in the live reporting blog on the BBC website.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66690889

 

I wonder how many parents have rolled up outside Abbey Lane Primary to video themselves outside the school & vented their anger through the median of dance & posted it on TikToc? 

 

 

2 hours ago, Anna B said:

It's not just schools, it's thousands of public buildings including Hospitals.

Health and safety are having a nervous breakdown...

 

Can you imagine the chaos if they all have to have expensive remedial building work done before they can let the public in?

 

I'm going to stay at home Monday just to be on the safe side.  Let's remember that it's not only the UK that used RAAC. 

 

Monday's going to look like one of those Hollywood disaster films with buildings rumbling in their hundreds all over the World. 

 

I can just see the Hollywood screenwriters rushing to make this blockbuster.  Sunak played by Dustin Hoffman.  Starmer played by The Rock with Christina Hendricks playing his sexy sidekick, Angela Rayner

Edited September 3, 2023 by Baron99

[Al Bundy]

How long before someone puts in a compo claim saying a bit of concrete falling off has given them mental health issues?

[cuttsie]

8 hours ago, Baron99 said:

I wonder how many parents have rolled up outside Abbey Lane Primary to video themselves outside the school & vented their anger through the median of dance & posted it on TikToc? 

 

 

I'm going to stay at home Monday just to be on the safe side.  Let's remember that it's not only the UK that used RAAC. 

 

Monday's going to look like one of those Hollywood disaster films with buildings rumbling in their hundreds all over the World. 

 

I can just see the Hollywood screenwriters rushing to make this blockbuster.  Sunak played by Dustin Hoffman.  Starmer played by The Rock with Christina Hendricks playing his sexy sidekick, Angela Rayner

Thats what the post is about , tomorrow every  public building will collapse . We will see MP's Councillors  in tin hats and High Viz  jackets while the building workers look on wearing a string vest and a smile .

[Al Bundy]

I see the Ukrainian children are going back to school even though bombs are dropping.

 

Ours are being pulled out because some soft cement might fall off.

 

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[Guest]

8 hours ago, melthebell said:

I prefer godley and creme rather than hue and cry tbh

That live version of Looking For Linda they did on TOTP was bloody good though.

[RollingJ]

1 hour ago, cuttsie said:

Thats what the post is about , tomorrow every  public building will collapse . We will see MP's Councillors  in tin hats and High Viz  jackets while the building workers look on wearing a string vest and a smile .

I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic.  (A) Not every public building uses this construction method (B)I read some claim this concrete has a 30-year lifespan - I understand a lot of these buildings date from the 70's - that's 50 years ago (C)I note the Chair of this 'committee' is the totally impartial Dame Meg Hillier.

[Anna B]

9 hours ago, RollingJ said:

I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic.  (A) Not every public building uses this construction method (B)I read some claim this concrete has a 30-year lifespan - I understand a lot of these buildings date from the 70's - that's 50 years ago (C)I note the Chair of this 'committee' is the totally impartial Dame Meg Hillier.

More likely guaranteed for 30 years. After that you're on your own, can't get insurance etc. Some buildings will no doubt fail, as appears to be happening.

 

 

[cuttsie]

14 minutes ago, Anna B said:

More likely guaranteed for 30 years. After that you're on your own, can't get insurance etc. Some buildings will no doubt fail, as appears to be happening.

 

 

It reminds me of the Black mortar saga , thousands of perfectly Good property's demolished due to tie  iron failure . 

We repaired many of these houses , a easy solution it was , but some councils could not wait to demolish the old estates so as to sell off land to private speculators it has happened in Sheffield ,  One little estate (Gleadless Crescent ) was condemned with Black mortar  used as a excuse , the land was sold of to private builders and two or three times the houses erected , the old council estate had old time residents who cherished the houses and massive gardens but so called socialist Council scattered them to the far cornets of Sheffield .

Edited September 3, 2023 by cuttsie

[hackey lad]

2 minutes ago, cuttsie said:

It reminds me of the Black mortar saga , thousands of perfectly Good property's demolished due to tie  iron failure . 

We repaired many of these houses , a easy solution it was , but some councils could not wait to demolish the old estates so as to sell off land to private speculators it has happened in Sheffield ,  One little estate (Gleadless Crescent ) was condemned with Black mortar  used as a excuse , the land was sold of to private builders and two or three times the houses erected , the old council estate had old time residents who cherished the houses and massive gardens but so called socialist Council scattered them to the far cornets of Sheffield .

[El Cid]

17 minutes ago, Anna B said:

More likely guaranteed for 30 years. After that you're on your own, can't get insurance etc. Some buildings will no doubt fail, as appears to be happening.

 

 

Structural deficiencies and signs of corrosion were observed in 1996. It was then recommended that owners of buildings, including schools, hospitals and local government buildings arrange for RAAC roofs to be inspected.

If there is water ingress, the re-enforcing metal will rot and the structure will become unsafe.

So this is not just a governemnt issue, have local councils been aware of the RAAC issue? I notice that there is an affected school in Bradford, is that a local authority school or independant?