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SALIX HOMES TO STRIP CLADDING FROM SALFORD TOWER BLOCKS
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Star date: 25th June 2017 SALIX HOMES CLADDING TO BE REMOVED AFTER TESTS After Salford Council announced it was removing cladding from nine Pendleton Together tower blocks, this afternoon Salix Homes has informed residents that it is removing cladding from Canon Hussey Court on the Islington Estate. In a letter to residents, Salix states that "the cladding sample provided for Canon Hussey Court has been identified as a higher risk component". Work to remove "affected cladding" will begin this week. The Salford Star understands that cladding is also to be removed from other blocks. Full details here...
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On Friday, Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett, announced that cladding would be removed from the nine Pendleton Together tower blocks. First residents were told that the cladding wouldn't be removed until replacement material was ready to be installed, which could have been months. Then, this afternoon, the company informed residents that the cladding was starting to be removed today (see previous Salford Star article click here). Now Salix Homes has sent a letter to its residents in Canon Hussey Court on the Islington Estate relating that cladding is to be removed this week... "We have just been informed that the testing of the cladding sample provided for Canon Hussey Court has been identified as a higher risk component" it states "Therefore we have now taken the immediate decision to remove the affected cladding from your block. Work will begin this week and we will keep you up to date with progress..." Yesterday, the Salford Star revealed that both Canon Hussey and Arthur Millwood Court have 'Aluminium Cladding - Reynobond Solid A 7116S', and that Reynobond was the manufacturer of the cladding used in Grenfell Tower. On the roof of these blocks is also a gas powered tank and 'eco pod system'.* The Salford Star understands that cladding will also be removed from Arthur Millwood Court, and also from the three blocks by Salford Precinct Sycamore Court, Magnolia Court and Mulberry Court, although we have no absolute clarification yet. In yesterday's Salford Star report we revealed that these three blocks have Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) - Grey EPS and White EPS in their cladding which is 'classed as combustible..should be considered toxic'...and, under the manufacturer's own safety guidelines, recommends avoidance of 'temperatures above 200°C/Exposed heat, flames and/or sparks...'* One disabled Salix tenant told the Salford Star this afternoon: "After going through three years of noise and disruption through refurbishment works, I am now expected to go through more refurbishment works. They should have done the job correctly in the first place." Now pressure should be exerted on Salford City Council, Pendleton Together, Salix Homes and City West to reveal all test results and details that have been received.
Update: 6:45pm - Salford Council has now confirmed that Arthur Millwood and Black Friar Court, as well Canon Hussey Court have failed tests.
*See previous Salford Star article... Potentially Toxic Cladding In Over A Dozen Salford Tower Blocks click here
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Mr 10% wrote
at 09:16:14 on 27 June 2017 |
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| I wonder if Salix got their 10% of the cost when the cladding work was carried out? I also wonder if they will get 10% of the cost of removing the cladding? |
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Theresa May II wrote
at 06:49:14 on 27 June 2017 |
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| As an important, influential and well loved person, I would like to say how "Strong & Stable" the Salix Homes Housing Association has been, at this moment in time. "Strong and Stable" has been the commitment by Salix Homes, to it's tenants, when ensuring all their properties meet current Building Regulations & Fire Standards. "Strong & Stable" has been the commitment of Salix Homes to remove their current British Standard, Highly Flammable Cladding Systems because of the severe fire risks to it's working class tenants. We as the U.K. should be proud of Housing Associations such as Salix Homes, who spends the tax payers money on Combustable Materials to clad the homes of the working classes. I would ask everyone in the U.K. to thank these hard working Housing Associations for their relentless abilities to house the working classes in such unique, distinctive, exclusive, exceptional, unrivalled, incomparable, inimitable & matchless properties. Britannia may not rule the waves anymore, but certainly rules the industry and production of Flammable and Highly Combustible Cladding Systems to which we all should be very proud of. |
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Mrs. F. U. Thankful wrote
at 06:48:09 on 27 June 2017 |
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| I would just like to thank the wonderful Salix Homes, for removing my highly flammable cladding system. The good news is I won't fry tonight or any other night while asleep. However words cannot describe how pi##ed off I am about the return of my damp and condensation problem which has returned as a result of removing the highly flammable thermal cladding system. Thanks a lot Salix Homes. You really know how to spoil your tenants. |
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Ms. A. Crawford wrote
at 06:45:50 on 27 June 2017 |
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| My heart felt sympathy goes out to all those who have been evacuated and displaced from their housing association properties that were fitted with below par, substandard, precarious, perilous, and hazardous materials. Such unsatisfactory, inadequate, egotistical, and egocentricity behaviours should not have been applied when ordering and fitting thermal cladding systems to social housing apartment buildings. However, my more profound sympathies go to those who are being forced to reside within their social properties, while this hazardous, dangerous, highly unstable and combustible material is being removed. However, I hear absolutely no mention of disabled tenants in this shameful revelation of substandard building implementation. There is no excuse for these continuing omissions. Salix Homes should be embarrassed, mortified, and ashamed by their total lack of consideration for the disabled who are having to cope in these dire conditions. |
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Dave wrote
at 21:11:51 on 26 June 2017 |
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| Just one question, who is going to pay the cost of all this? Becky Long face thinks the government should.Does she need to be reminded that it was Blairs mob in charge in 2001 when concerns about this type of cladding system were first made to the Doe. I am not sure about this, but at that time wasn't our very own iron chipmunk dossing around the DOE at that time? Take a look at that posh suburb across the river.Collyhurst. There are about 4 tower blocks there that were , prior to renovation far crappier than anything we have to offer. They were clad ,by a housing social provider, in the proper stuff, rockpanel and rockwool. They look ok and they will not be ripped down again.This was done, as i am informed, at less cost per flat than Salix and the other clowns paid for the rubbish. Why did this happen? was it just luck? |
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Salix Homes finished wrote
at 14:57:43 on 26 June 2017 |
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| What I just dont get. When Seddon or whichever contractor was contracted. Did the Manager/director or customer panel not ask is cladding safe and make them prove it before spending millions and millions of pounds. Now this will cost the people of Salford more wasted millions of pounds. Cant see Salix Homes getting out of this one. I think we mind find they will go bust. |
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Salford Citizen wrote
at 14:57:18 on 26 June 2017 |
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| It would seem that the Salford Housing Associations are going back to the 60's Retro Look. Once they remove all of Cladding from their High Rise Tower Blocks, Salford will once again look like a "Concrete Jungle". Gone are the days of warm and insulated flats, and back are the days of damp and condensation, combined with the gloomy grey facades of concrete towers. Oh Joy. Those in small towns do not know what they are missing. |
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Son of Sarcastic wrote
at 11:54:07 on 26 June 2017 |
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| Salford within a few weeks is going to look so amazing!!! Balding Tower Blocks with big holes missing from the outer brickwork and Gaspipes on show for everyone to see. What more could a developing city want!!!! |
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The Three Little Pigs wrote
at 11:53:59 on 26 June 2017 |
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| There was once a Housing Association built in a far away developed city. The first pig refurbished his Tower Block to a good standard, so the wolves within Goverment could not take apart his Tower Block. The second pig only had a small Tower Block and refurbished it adequately but cheaply but still the wolves within Goverment could not take apart his small Tower Block. But the third pig owned a load of large high rise Tower Blocks and refurbished them with Highly Combustable Cladding so the wolves in Government made him undo all his refurbishment work. The motto of this story is, don't live in far away developed cities who have Cladded Tower Blocks, as the wolves in Government will huff and puff and blow your Combustable Cladding back off your rented Tower Block. |
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Chocolate Fire Guard wrote
at 10:35:37 on 26 June 2017 |
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| In my opinion Salix Homes and other Landlords as well as removing the cheap flammable cladding should also remove the inappropriate and unsuitable Gas installations in Tower Blocks and Gas Tanks on Roofs. Make sure all Fire Doors fit correctly. Install Smoke alarms in corridors, stairwells and other communal areas. Supply Gas/smoke masks to each flat or in communal areas to be accessed in emergencies. Also move physically disabled people out of High Rise Blocks. |
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Justified & Ancient wrote
at 10:17:41 on 26 June 2017 |
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| When I lived in Arthur Millwood, while going through the refurbishment scheme in 2014, my front door, which is supposed to be a fire door had gaps underneath it, the locks did not line up, my letter box was plastic, and the door strip fell off. Everything you would need for a fire door, was fitted incorrectly. My Ecopod heating system only worked when it wanted to, my kitchen cupboard fell of the wall, my pipes to the kitchen taps leaked, and the rewire was a load of plastic trunking stuck very badly onto my walls. The windows they fitted were to small so they used pine wood to fill the gaps, and I never did receive my balcony door key, so in the event of a fire, you could not use the balcony as a means of escape. The bath they fitted was a second, as it was covered in chips and the bathroom sink fell off the wall twice. I certainly don't believe Arthur Millwood is a fire risk, even with the dodgy cladding because the damp in the building would stop it from catching light. All in all, the refurbishment work undertaken by Salix Homes, in my opinion was a shambles. |
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all nutters wrote
at 10:16:53 on 26 June 2017 |
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| If anyone wants to leave comments you can do on this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZDDEZsaIY |
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oranjeboom wrote
at 08:10:38 on 26 June 2017 |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZbGghaR5uQ comments have been disabled what a surprise they do not want any real feed back. |
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Mr. Sarcastic wrote
at 08:09:02 on 26 June 2017 |
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| I've just noticed something quite interesting. If you look at Thorn Courts Chameleon Cladding from the right angle, it starts to look like Rockwool Insulation!!!! |
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