Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Failure - Residential Buildings Affected?

[transam]

No, just bell ends like you

Well some one had to keep
You company on the DIYnot

B*** end list As you would be lonely

 

[transam]

The radio (and by extension, you) wasn't interested in them until this weekend.

Plenty of articles in trade and professional journals on the state of the built environment in general (and RAAC in particular) going back years.

Not their fault that HM Gov. was too busy at the trough, getting their fill

What like asbestos you mean

Asbestosis decease was documented in acient Greece couple thousand years ago

Than the construction industry in the Uk used it in
Artex
Floor tiles
Pipes
Lagging
Toilet cisterns
Water cisterns
Soil pipes
Guttering
Ect ect

Killed thousands and still is

Children unknowingly taking asbestos fibres home as well in or on there cases

 

[Bod ...]

Well some one had to keep
You company on the DIYnot

B*** end list As you would be lonely

I'd love to be on the B***end list it sounds alot of fun.

 

[Brigadier]

What like asbestos you mean

Just like asbestos.

The meeja is a fickle mistress

 

[transam]

I'd love to be on the B***end list it sounds alot of fun.

Nah you have come up to a certain standard Bod which you don’t ( at the moment )

Mind you my membership
Is temporary

Dazzlers is permanent

 

[Bod ...]

Nah you have come up to a certain standard Bod which you don’t ( at the moment )

Mind you my membership
Is temporary

Dazzlers is permanent

What will I have to do to gain membership. ?

 

[Brigadier]

What will I have to do to gain membership. ?

Be a bell end.

It really is not brain science (or rocket surgery)

 

[transam]

Many years ago we used to do a fair bit of work at a boys boarding school
Private fee paying school for boys aged between 6 or 7 to 13 years old

Every term they would come back to school empty there suit cases and the empty cases were stored in a loft space untill they were required I.e end of term and they went home

I happened up
There and found an old iron pipe running the length of the roof that had been lagged with asbestos which was crumbling and flaking asbestos hanging down off the pipe in clumps

All the boys cases were stored / pushed up against the asbestos there cases were in some instances contaminated

Went and saw the power that be over the caper

No one wanted to know was even told they did not want to here about it

Wrote to the school over the caper

Dunno what happened but we never worked there again ???

 

[Justin Passing]

How do you think industrial design would have fared in fared in this country without steel reinforced concrete in bridges car parks etc, exactly the same principle and susceptibility to manufacturing and installation faults.

Blup

No, not the same at all. Read some more.

 

[blup]

No, not the same at all. Read some more.

Its clearly a maintenance issue, plus schools not having funds/expertise so a cost benefit analysis of options was always going to be skewed. Materials fail eventually and unless you end up with Trigger’s broom, buildings need replacing. All a consequence of our ultra low tax economy, and a short term approach to politics.

Blup

 

[oldbutnotdead]

With what?

Back in the bad old days before Compulsory Competitive Tendering, lots of large local authority buildings would have their own maintenance staff- 1 or 2 who looked after all the 'general' bits of that building. The good ones had their daily, weekly, monthly task lists, did them (clean gutters, check doorclosers, check windows, check drains/gullies), building stayed in good nick with semi-fixed maintenance costs (their wages plus materials).
Then the future arrived- all these building specialists were either retired or absorbed into the council wide labour pool. The buildings lost the budget for their maintenance staff, someone working at the building became responsible for phoning in any repair requirements (each one now a chargeable event) and the routine maintenance stopped.
And here we are.

 

[Brigadier]

Back in the bad old days before Compulsory Competitive Tendering, lots of large local authority buildings would have their own maintenance staff- 1 or 2 who looked after all the 'general' bits of that building. The good ones had their daily, weekly, monthly task lists, did them (clean gutters, check doorclosers, check windows, check drains/gullies), building stayed in good nick with semi-fixed maintenance costs (their wages plus materials).
Then the future arrived- all these building specialists were either retired or absorbed into the council wide labour pool. The buildings lost the budget for their maintenance staff, someone working at the building became responsible for phoning in any repair requirements (each one now a chargeable event) and the routine maintenance stopped.
And here we are.

It was a rhetorical question, OBND, but your reply might inform some of the other posters on here. So thanks for that.


Maintaining slab roofs though, a bit beyond the maintenance bloke with the cotton overall and roll up hanging from his mouth

 

[oldbutnotdead]

It was a rhetorical question, OBND, but your reply might inform some of the other posters on here. So thanks for that.


Maintaining slab roofs though, a bit beyond the maintenance bloke with the cotton overall and roll up hanging from his mouth

The detail for sure beyond our Arthur- but one of his monthlies was walk the roof, sweep any moss, leaves etc off and blackjack any flakey looking bits. Little and often ....

 

[Tony Edwards]

Walls of aerated concrete may absorb the gas leaks all over the country that gas companies do not have time to fix?