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Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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On Newsnight yeaterday, a Grenfell estate resident (but not a resident
of the tower) said that there were unprotected gas pipes running up
the stairwell. This was also mentioned earlier by residents. But not
by any pros I heard interviewed.

Based on other comments, I thought initially they had gone over to
individual heating systems in each flat - hence the need for new gas
pipes. But it seems this is wrong - it had a new communal heating
system.

So why the need for new gas pipes to all the flats? Or are they in
fact not gas but water? A layman might well not know the difference.

Sadly, running any new services through a fire protected area might
well compromise that, if badly done.

every traditional four storey tenement in scotland had the gas supply in
the common stair .....worked fine for years but then again closes were
open front and back ....

A four storey block might well have been fine with that cladding too. And
any fire appliance can likely reach its windows anyway.

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