First-time buyer has to pay £200,000 to fix cladding – the same cost as her flat
Sophie Bichener has now been forced to keep a fire extinguisher by her bed at night A woman caught up in the cladding scandal has been hit with a bill for more than £200,000 for fire safety repairs – almost the same as the value of her flat. Tens […]Click here to view original web…
‘I’ll take anything to sell up’: desperate owners of cladded flats slash prices
Extortionate cladding crisis bills have forced leaseholders to slash tens of thousands of pounds off their flat prices in the hope of selling to cash buyers . But even the cash “sharks” circling homeowners desperate to sell up and escape the costs of the building safety crisis are not […] Click here to view original…
First-time buyer says £208,000 cladding bill is almost as much as she paid for her entire flat
Sophie Bichener, 29, has received one of the largest remediation bills yet (Photo: Supplied) A cladding victim is in “a living nightmare” after she was landed with a bill of more than £200,000 to repair fire safety defects — costing almost the same price of her entire flat. First-time […] Click here to view original…
Dangerous cladding will be replaced at apartment and offices
Queens Wharf Dangerous cladding will be replaced at yet another building in Reading, with the council approving plans to remove the “non-compliant” materials and install safe new cladding. Queens Wharf, on 47 Queen’s Road, is an apartment and offices block. The owner of Queens Wharf applied for a certificate […] Click here to view original…
The ACT’s Building Cladding Crisis – What does it mean for you?
The fire at the Grenfell Tower social housing block in London shone a light on the dangers of the use of cladding with polyethylene (PE) core across the world. More recently, the fire that ripped through a high-rise apartment complex in Milan two days ago – which caused the […] Click here to view original…
NSW puts the brakes on cladding removal project
COVID-19 has delayed the NSW Government’s project to remove flammable cladding from at-risk apartment buildings. 239 apartment buildings across New South Wales that house a number of the state’s residents are labeled high risk by the government, and are required to have the materials removed in order to prevent […] Click here to view original…
Delay to removal of flammable cladding from NSW apartment buildings
By Matt O’Sullivan September 2, 2021 — 5.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. 0 Leave a comment A state government project to remove flammable cladding from apartment towers has been put on hold until next year, with the NSW Building Commissioner blaming the COVID-19 lockdown […] Click here to view original…
First-time buyer says £208,000 cladding bill is almost as much as she paid for her entire flat
Sophie Bichener, 29, has received one of the largest remediation bills yet (Photo: Supplied) A cladding victim is in “a living nightmare” after she was landed with a bill of more than £200,000 to repair fire safety defects — costing almost the same price of her entire flat. First-time […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: leaseholders targeted by property ‘sharks’
Leaseholders caught up in the cladding scandal face yet another risk, as a housing market stalemate has opened the door to potentially untrustworthy cash buyers. Flat owners have told us of ‘sharks’ approaching them out of the blue, and of drawn-out, troubled and ultimately unsuccessful attempts to sell their […] Click here to view original…
Poole flats cladding work delayed over fire safety payments
Exploratory work on the cladding has begun but the changes cannot get under way until money for fire breaks is also in place Work to replace potentially flammable cladding on a block of flats has been delayed after residents were asked to pay for other fire safety work first. […] Click here to view original…
Cladding Questions Arise in Milan’s 20-Story Building Blaze
Biomechanical Experts MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters tackled hot spots Monday in a 20-story apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire but said there were no indications that anyone was missing inside, as questions arose about the cladding that witnesses said rapidly fueled the fire. Some cases […] Click here to view original…
Cladding questions arise in Milan’s 20 storey building blaze
MILAN—Italian firefighters tackled hot spots Monday in a 20-storey apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire but said there were no indications that anyone was missing inside, as questions arose about the cladding that witnesses said rapidly fuelled the fire. Some cases of smoke inhalation were reported […] Click here to view original…