In message , at 11:14:01 on Tue, 4 Jul
2017, "Dave Plowman (News)" remarked:
In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:
In social housing, you insist on inspecting the flats, and if an
appliance with the failing model number turns up you remove it.

Wouldn't it make more sense to inspect the fire escape methods - making
sure firedoors etc are working and clear? And so on? That obviously
isn't done in many cases, presumably due to the lack of will or money
to do it. Yet you want to spend money and effort on something that
wouldn't be so cost effective.

But something which is cheap and easy.

Inspecting every appliance in each and every flat at regular intervals is
going to be cheap and easy? I think not.


Funny you should say that - the residents in Camden were up in arms that
every flat hadn't been visited by a council worker in a period of half
an hour when the decision to evacuate was made.

In other news, the Grenfell fridge/freezer was made between 2006 and
2009, so timescales for this kind of thing can be measured in years.

Rented buildings require gas safety inspections annually, already. This
could be tacked onto that.
--
Roland Perry