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Major fire in London tower block - ongoing updates -
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UK readers and posters.
Coincidence? I've just got back from a friends house who lives near me but under a different council and she rents one of their properties.
On Friday she got a letter from her social housing landlord to say they will be doing an electrical safety check in her home and it will take approximately 4 hours. The bottom of the letter it says faulty or untested installations can cause damage to property or even serious injury.
This is the first time such a check has been carried out in the house and for 4 hours apart from the usual boiler and smoke alarm annual tests they do.
Am I jumping to conclusions by thinking this new 4 hour electric check has something to do with councils shitting themselves because of the London tower block fire.
Has anyone else who rents council property had a similar letter.
Quoting: ThisWayUp Aye they are panicking, we had a check recently ourselves prior to this fire our property is only 2 years old though so we are lucky on that front as within that time this property has undergone various inspections as it's passed hands from contractor to landlord, which have also carried out their own checks. There will likely be a push to check all properties within social housing and I wouldn't be surprised if it would be added to private landlord legislative licensing requirements either. These checks the council are doing appear to be very prompt and urgent as she lives in a normal terraced house and not a block of flats or a tower which I thought would have been their first priority. The thing with council property is that a lot of the electrics and gas works tend to hitting the age and due refurbishment, and obviously the newer legislation 17th edition I think it is now for electrics needs to be used to update the electrics and those electrics already updated need to be checked again. Ive lived in terraced houses before too, and they tend to be among the oldest properties in Britain some as old as 100yo, and I know from first hand the problems that exist in them can be worrying. I think all social housing will get the full MOT considering what's gone on. It is the right thing to do isn't it. Fire crews should also work with the council and tenants on regular evacuation drills on tower blocks because they would learn so much so fast if they did this nationwide. The people in these towers will feel far more confident in knowing what to do if fires do occur. Why practice drills on empty set up buildings when you can practice drills on the real thing.
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