The strange white item you discovered on the wall (with the flue at the top and the draw at the bottom) is an electric sanitary napkin incinerator/destructor. The handle on the side opens up the flap at the top where the item to be incinerated is deposited. When the handle is released the flap closes and a clockwork timer switch (spring wound by initial operation of the lever) turns on electric elements for a set period. The flap and the handle are then mechanically locked until the timer has finished (prevents inserting additional items whilst the incinerator is in operation). The pull out drawer at the bottom is for ash collection and must be in place for the unit to operate. These incinerators were around in the late 50's, 60's and early 70's in women's public toilets. It is unusual to find one here, unless there used to be a toilet at this level or it had some other special purpose for incinerating things. This is probably one of the last few remaining units that is still mounted insitu.
Spot on! Some flats had these in the bin shed area, the idea being you put your normal waste in the standard bins and pop your sanitary items in the incinerator
@4:09 that thing on the wall is a sanitary pad incinerator for women to dispose of sanitary pads. The tower I lived in one had them too. You opened the door on the top, dropped in the item when you closed the drawer it incinerated it. And you cleaned out the ashes in the bottom drawer that you opened. It was more hygienic than putting them down the bin chute.
I lived here in the late 60s when the building was new. The tower still features in my bad dreams. There was a laundry area on our floor. We used to creep ourselves out by taking the lift up to top floor 24. The lift opened up to a maintenance area with mummy-cloth covered pipes. The tower has improved a lot now, with concierge and security cameras, but the towers still creep me out. Thanks for uploading.
Beno Lifts - I was only about 6/8 years old then. We just pressed the top floor button on the lift and it went up there. Maybe we shouldn't have had access and there was a fault, but it was easy to get up there.
Really weird layout in that top plantroom. It does look a lot like german bunker. This building is an example of too much security. Despite having all the security it is not working particulairy effectively. I mean in the other tower someone before you already defeated the overzealus security devices. It just shows that more security is not always effective and can be counter productive as authorised personell will find it inconveint and work around it, making it more lax. It’s the same kind of paradox with computer security. If it’s too restrictive, the users will be super annoyed because that can’t get their work done due to overzealus security.
I used to live in one of the top floor 'penthouses' in the Daubenay Tower 1982-5. This was before they had a roof over the top of the block and I had access to the sky from my flat. It could have been a lovely place to live accept the crime rate was through the roof too. I gave up trying to own anything that mattered, two squatted flats full of junkies either side of me. The block looks much more secure now, with cameras and concierge (are they actually operational though). I was there when they fitted the cladding to the block, the scaffolding caused a deluge of burglaries .... I guess the junkies were shoving it up their arms like there was no tomorrow those days. I was glad to leave, I miss the view, I miss the spacious flat but not the ever present crime.
4:20 what makes it even crazier is if you look straight at this exact time, there’s a face. If you are reading this comment at night. I’d advise don’t do it, or watch this video.
That's my block y'all Eddystones Storytime: When i was in the lift with other ppl the lift stopped on the MR (Meeting room) floor Then a teen boy went and started talking rubbish Everyone told him to come back inside but when the lift door was closing he didn't Ppl still think that he's there today (I was like 5 or 6 then 2015 or 2016)
The boarding in the motor room doesn't usually contain asbestos. It's some sort of grass compacted onto a bale which is then dipped in cement. Maybe they added asbestos to it in the UK? Dunno. Here in Finland, it's called Tojax and was a very common building material. The original Tojax board doesn't contain asbestos and actually a very eco friendly material too. Only the coatings were asbestos containing, but generally their uncoated. In my previous school's wood working class junkies used to throw wet scraps onto the ceiling (which was this material) and they would get attached to it. After a few years the ceiling looked disgusting :( The material has actually made a comeback and is used in some modern buildings.
They added asbestos to pretty much everything in the UK. All plaster board and other things they made fake internal walls with and lined supporting walls with contained it in various amounts. They thought it was an amazing material and should be used in everything.
I love these... fascinating stuff, these buildings have such bewilderingly random layouts. Am curious about the lift situation going on here that seems evident in your other tower block video: If only one lift serves even floors and the other lift serves odd floors, that's still basically the equivalency of an 11-story building with one lift. The waiting for one already in use must be excruciating at times - is this typical in UK highrises, or is it presumed they're just cutting corners being that they're public housing? I don't know there's a cars-per-floor rule here in the US, but I don't think I've ever seen a building that tall here that doesn't have at least 3, maybe 4 elevators. :O
Nice place to go for a sneaky doobie, but I'm ancient and that stuff is probably very old hat to you guys. Still, you make me glad the young ones are not boring!
The LPS ones? There are not many left. They have been considered dangerous for decades but only recently did they start getting pulled down. I personally think they look nice. And the interiors are more spacious than other designs of tower blocks. Apparently a couple of them had internal upright supports added to make them safe, but it is unclear if these ones will survive. There are a couple of blocks on the old kent road that are still there, but they will be gone soon. Each block has a permerent 24 hour member of staff who's job is to check that everyone who enters the building doesn't bring a gas canister in. That must be a huge expense for the housing association.
@@benolifts I dont think they are LPS they are cast in situ unlike other Reema con clad blocks that some are being pulled down round my area but the Wimpey No fines seem to be staying and getting external insulation done, Have a look on google for parkway Grange and Court in leeds, if theres any others around i want to visit and of course the lifts
Slow down your moves w the cam PLS Edit: no offense at first your voice was unusual. After some time I realised you're a very cool guy. Thanks for uploading
Also ;) at the end of your video, you state that you weren't doing anything illegal -- which, as someone who has spent lots of time taking self-guided tours of buildings myself, I absolutely appreciate that line of thinking -- but in the States, there's always the possibility of getting pinched for trespassing if a building was so inclined to pursue such charges. Is that not a thing over there? :D
No the UK is ironically a more free country than America. Trespass is a Civil Offence and not a Criminal Offence. This means you CANNOT be prosecuted for it. Of course, rich land owners have found loopholes to get people arrested (see Benos video on why he hates the UK) and if you do something bad like vandalise or steal then you can quite rightly be prosecuted for that.
Creepy! For some reason I thought Alex from A Clockwork Orange was going to pop around the corner or a Dalek from Dr. Who was going to come out and yell Exterminate!
Have been viewing a number of your vdeos regarding Pepys estate. I was the project manager for the Estate Actionre furbishment in the 1990's I predicted that roof would end up covered in Rubbish. I feared someone would drop a fridge on it babies nappies were an epidemic. What you have not cottened on to when in the corridors are these flats were called scissor flats. If yours went up, next doors went down, so if on to the balcony your neigbour could be from 2 floors up or two floors down confused so was your next door neighbour if you asked them in for a coffee. Mike
I find Pepys estate very interesting. I have been in Maydew house which is the same design, and it is empty inside and you can see the layout of the flats. It is weird but very interesting. It must be nice being able to see out both sides of the building. What they have done to the roofs of Pepys estate is very strange.
@@benolifts Thank you for your responce. I have a number of questions regarding Pepy's but one that I think about a lot due to the current Climate crisis and especially Extinct rebellions call for retro fit insulations. One of the problems with retro fitting insulation is, if done correctly, results in condensation. This is currently in the news lots of reports of excessive condensation in social housing properties but not associated with retro fitted insulation. We knew this at the time of the refurbishment and to combat this we put in place a heat recovery system. I worked with Vent Axia to develop a unit suitable for Social Housing. The prototype worked but we found was not suitable for social housing. It was designed as to look like a cooker hood, residents did not understand this. To them it was a cooker hood so, in further blocks we changed the design and built a false wall at of the corridor and this worked. First question. Are they still there? If so, are they being maintained for example new filters being fitted or cleaned? And are residents aware when running saves 75% of the cost of heating? It needs a survey and would give an opportunity for a great video. Take care Mike
In the comms cab at 10:50, there is some Motorola equipment in there not sure what for. A Poe switch for powering the cameras (if you unplug the Ethernet, it will turn off cameras) and a GPON for fibre. Fibre is probably because too far to run Ethernet from concierge
OverSoft I had a look on Bing Maps Birds eye view and it seems that there are some microwave links but not any sectors. This could possibly be a relay site.
Of course they do. Almost every building that's from the 60's and 70's has lots of asbestos. I'm not sure whether the boards in the motor room contain it, in my home country similar kind of boards don't. But I'd bet it's everywhere around the building, not just so visible. Having asbestos is not a horrible thing afterall, people don't actually realize how widespread it's use was. If everyone around it would get sick, we had millions of deaths. It depends a lot on how it's managed and where it is. For example having asbestos cement in a building is not really a big issue (I cannot see why the value would go down etc), but I'd not want to stay on a building with sprayed asbestos for longer than a few hours. Sprayed asbestos is just so goddamn horrible due to it's friability and the most cancerous types of asbestos being used too.
How are you not afraid of those cameras? I mean I know that they wont put you to jail or something bet when you see cameras you expect them to be monitored all the time and you just stand there "oh hello camera" :D but still very interesting video.
Its an old electric sanitary napkin incinerator, they were usually found in women's toilets until the early 70's. The handle on the side opens up the flap at the top, the item to be incinerated is deposited and when the handle is release a clockwork timer switch (wound up by initial activation of the handle) turns on powerful electric elements for a set period of time. The drawer at the bottom is for ash collection. It is very unusual to find one here, they were usually only found in women's toilets.
The narrator is far too excited, seems to take pleasure in the problems here, and sounds like a caricature like Austin Powers. This subject deserves a bit more seriousness and sobriety. Everyone wants to solve these problems.
Um just interested how do the balconies help? The fire goes along the cladding on the surface of the building. You'd not want to be on the balcony when the fire is blazing directly under you. I think the best solution is to hermetically seal the escape ways from the corridors, and apartments from the corridors.
@@juliuseskola1281 if the cladding was fire proof/resistant then the fire would have to spread inside the building so if the stairs are blocked by the fire then people can climb down from the balconies or the fire brigade can hoist a ladder to the balcony to rescue the people waiting there to be saved
I grew up in a building in NYC which was 21 floors and the balconies saved many peoples lives in a fire. There was a fire on the 12th floor and everyone above was trapped due to the flames and smoke. Our apartment was filling up in smoke. We waited it out on the balcony for a few hours. If not for the balcony we would have died from the smoke.
The strange white item you discovered on the wall (with the flue at the top and the draw at the bottom) is an electric sanitary napkin incinerator/destructor. The handle on the side opens up the flap at the top where the item to be incinerated is deposited. When the handle is released the flap closes and a clockwork timer switch (spring wound by initial operation of the lever) turns on electric elements for a set period. The flap and the handle are then mechanically locked until the timer has finished (prevents inserting additional items whilst the incinerator is in operation). The pull out drawer at the bottom is for ash collection and must be in place for the unit to operate. These incinerators were around in the late 50's, 60's and early 70's in women's public toilets. It is unusual to find one here, unless there used to be a toilet at this level or it had some other special purpose for incinerating things. This is probably one of the last few remaining units that is still mounted insitu.
Spot on! Some flats had these in the bin shed area, the idea being you put your normal waste in the standard bins and pop your sanitary items in the incinerator
@4:09 that thing on the wall is a sanitary pad incinerator for women to dispose of sanitary pads. The tower I lived in one had them too. You opened the door on the top, dropped in the item when you closed the drawer it incinerated it. And you cleaned out the ashes in the bottom drawer that you opened. It was more hygienic than putting them down the bin chute.
I lived here in the late 60s when the building was new. The tower still features in my bad dreams. There was a laundry area on our floor. We used to creep ourselves out by taking the lift up to top floor 24. The lift opened up to a maintenance area with mummy-cloth covered pipes. The tower has improved a lot now, with concierge and security cameras, but the towers still creep me out. Thanks for uploading.
Was floor 24 not locked then, or did you drive the lift up from on top.
Beno Lifts - I was only about 6/8 years old then. We just pressed the top floor button on the lift and it went up there. Maybe we shouldn't have had access and there was a fault, but it was easy to get up there.
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Oh my God, there’s a telephone line
@@benoliftsshame that they are still trying for him in his current form as
We are in different flats
the building looks nice but it should probably have some balcony's for fire safety so that we dont get another Grenfell Tower Fire Disaster.
Really weird layout in that top plantroom. It does look a lot like german bunker. This building is an example of too much security. Despite having all the security it is not working particulairy effectively. I mean in the other tower someone before you already defeated the overzealus security devices. It just shows that more security is not always effective and can be counter productive as authorised personell will find it inconveint and work around it, making it more lax. It’s the same kind of paradox with computer security. If it’s too restrictive, the users will be super annoyed because that can’t get their work done due to overzealus security.
I used to live in one of the top floor 'penthouses' in the Daubenay Tower 1982-5. This was before they had a roof over the top of the block and I had access to the sky from my flat. It could have been a lovely place to live accept the crime rate was through the roof too. I gave up trying to own anything that mattered, two squatted flats full of junkies either side of me. The block looks much more secure now, with cameras and concierge (are they actually operational though). I was there when they fitted the cladding to the block, the scaffolding caused a deluge of burglaries .... I guess the junkies were shoving it up their arms like there was no tomorrow those days. I was glad to leave, I miss the view, I miss the spacious flat but not the ever present crime.
Concierge is just for show
4:20 what makes it even crazier is if you look straight at this exact time, there’s a face. If you are reading this comment at night. I’d advise don’t do it, or watch this video.
This is so disturbing 😭
Where?
@@mandemt1076 Behind you!
@@rajjy1976 wattttt
*_Warning, the telephone line is disconnected._*
*-Warning, the telephone line is disconnected.-*
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That's my block y'all
Eddystones
Storytime:
When i was in the lift with other ppl the lift stopped on the MR (Meeting room) floor
Then a teen boy went and started talking rubbish
Everyone told him to come back inside but when the lift door was closing he didn't
Ppl still think that he's there today
(I was like 5 or 6 then 2015 or 2016)
The boarding in the motor room doesn't usually contain asbestos. It's some sort of grass compacted onto a bale which is then dipped in cement. Maybe they added asbestos to it in the UK? Dunno. Here in Finland, it's called Tojax and was a very common building material. The original Tojax board doesn't contain asbestos and actually a very eco friendly material too. Only the coatings were asbestos containing, but generally their uncoated. In my previous school's wood working class junkies used to throw wet scraps onto the ceiling (which was this material) and they would get attached to it. After a few years the ceiling looked disgusting :( The material has actually made a comeback and is used in some modern buildings.
They added asbestos to pretty much everything in the UK. All plaster board and other things they made fake internal walls with and lined supporting walls with contained it in various amounts. They thought it was an amazing material and should be used in everything.
Wow. Looks like bunker... Nice find !
But i dont think that is asbestos ... it looks more like wood-shavings pressed with thin cement.
I love these... fascinating stuff, these buildings have such bewilderingly random layouts. Am curious about the lift situation going on here that seems evident in your other tower block video: If only one lift serves even floors and the other lift serves odd floors, that's still basically the equivalency of an 11-story building with one lift. The waiting for one already in use must be excruciating at times - is this typical in UK highrises, or is it presumed they're just cutting corners being that they're public housing? I don't know there's a cars-per-floor rule here in the US, but I don't think I've ever seen a building that tall here that doesn't have at least 3, maybe 4 elevators. :O
1:32 that looks like an EST 3 Fore panel, do you know what brand it is?
4:34 is an incinerator very common in old council flats in my experience from working in them
You should visit John walsh or Fredd Wigg Tower Leytonstone. They will be demolished soon
Nice place to go for a sneaky doobie, but I'm ancient and that stuff is probably very old hat to you guys. Still, you make me glad the young ones are not boring!
The 23rd floor is securely shut down
Why?? What happen?
At 8:27 it looks like there is a Alarm panel and telephone line. Maybe related to that alarm last time
The Tower apartment is amazing outside
I don’t know why but I get the feeling that this plant room is very unusual
The second part was that he wanted SH
Hi Ben,
The white unit at 4m07 is putting it politely an incinerator unit for used ladies "hygienic objects" (period).
Used to have one in our flats.
www.consortepl.com/portfolio-item/sanfire-sanitary-incinerators/
But why would it be in a plant room?
Didn't realise it was plant room :-D.
Unless the area was used as something else when they were originally built.
Stop being so stuck with other friend do you know the telephone is disconnected?
@@benoliftsschedule the meeting
Do you know if theres any Wimpey High rise H plan blocks around, i want to visit more but not found many out of leeds
The LPS ones? There are not many left. They have been considered dangerous for decades but only recently did they start getting pulled down. I personally think they look nice. And the interiors are more spacious than other designs of tower blocks. Apparently a couple of them had internal upright supports added to make them safe, but it is unclear if these ones will survive. There are a couple of blocks on the old kent road that are still there, but they will be gone soon. Each block has a permerent 24 hour member of staff who's job is to check that everyone who enters the building doesn't bring a gas canister in. That must be a huge expense for the housing association.
@@benolifts I dont think they are LPS they are cast in situ unlike other Reema con clad blocks that some are being pulled down round my area but the Wimpey No fines seem to be staying and getting external insulation done, Have a look on google for parkway Grange and Court in leeds, if theres any others around i want to visit and of course the lifts
Used to live in daubeney late 90s 12th floor had good times there
Very nice Beno! Truly unusual, looks like an interesting place to spend the night if only the security wasn't there.
Yeah! You are the master!
this is top content guys, and I was laughing all the way through.
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enclosed plant room is entertaining,
Slow down your moves w the cam PLS Edit: no offense at first your voice was unusual. After some time I realised you're a very cool guy. Thanks for uploading
U should let the caretakers some one done that well done locking up
You getbon the roof via a hatch above the flats i use to put aerials up there for pirate radio
Maybe thats why there are so many cameras up there. Since doing this video more alarms have been installed.
Hi Ben your tower block videos are very interesting
I salute *Beno Lifts* for his *Tower Block Videos!*
Was that a really old rusty and now unused boiler? I'm probably wrong.
Also ;) at the end of your video, you state that you weren't doing anything illegal -- which, as someone who has spent lots of time taking self-guided tours of buildings myself, I absolutely appreciate that line of thinking -- but in the States, there's always the possibility of getting pinched for trespassing if a building was so inclined to pursue such charges. Is that not a thing over there? :D
No the UK is ironically a more free country than America. Trespass is a Civil Offence and not a Criminal Offence. This means you CANNOT be prosecuted for it. Of course, rich land owners have found loopholes to get people arrested (see Benos video on why he hates the UK) and if you do something bad like vandalise or steal then you can quite rightly be prosecuted for that.
didnt see any "no trespass" sign so its ok i guess
Creepy! For some reason I thought Alex from A Clockwork Orange was going to pop around the corner or a Dalek from Dr. Who was going to come out and yell Exterminate!
For me it was the best,interesting and amusing episode of these series so far! But Ben why you didn't surf these lifts?
Have been viewing a number of your vdeos regarding Pepys estate. I was the project manager for the Estate Actionre furbishment in the 1990's I predicted that roof would end up covered in Rubbish. I feared someone would drop a fridge on it babies nappies were an epidemic. What you have not cottened on to when in the corridors are these flats were called scissor flats. If yours went up, next doors went down, so if on to the balcony your neigbour could be from 2 floors up or two floors down confused so was your next door neighbour if you asked them in for a coffee. Mike
I find Pepys estate very interesting. I have been in Maydew house which is the same design, and it is empty inside and you can see the layout of the flats. It is weird but very interesting. It must be nice being able to see out both sides of the building. What they have done to the roofs of Pepys estate is very strange.
@@benolifts Thank you for your responce. I have a number of questions regarding Pepy's but one that I think about a lot due to the current Climate crisis and especially Extinct rebellions call for retro fit insulations. One of the problems with retro fitting insulation is, if done correctly, results in condensation. This is currently in the news lots of reports of excessive condensation in social housing properties but not associated with retro fitted insulation. We knew this at the time of the refurbishment and to combat this we put in place a heat recovery system. I worked with Vent Axia to develop a unit suitable for Social Housing. The prototype worked but we found was not suitable for social housing. It was designed as to look like a cooker hood, residents did not understand this. To them it was a cooker hood so, in further blocks we changed the design and built a false wall at of the corridor and this worked.
First question. Are they still there?
If so, are they being maintained for example new filters being fitted or cleaned?
And are residents aware when running saves 75% of the cost of heating?
It needs a survey and would give an opportunity for a great video. Take care Mike
Have you been up aragon tower? I think it's close to these ones
Hey! That's not fair! It's not even yours.....
What are you not prepare for against the ARAGON?
It is look like the Distortion World?
Yall are lucky you aren’t getting stabbed going into these deptford blocks at 2am
0:52 WARNING!!!! The telephone line is disconnected!!!!
BENO can you send the link of the old video
Did the door was actually unlocked from before or what? (Look at 5:17)
In the comms cab at 10:50, there is some Motorola equipment in there not sure what for. A Poe switch for powering the cameras (if you unplug the Ethernet, it will turn off cameras) and a GPON for fibre. Fibre is probably because too far to run Ethernet from concierge
unnecessary
There's probably a cell tower on top.
OverSoft I had a look on Bing Maps Birds eye view and it seems that there are some microwave links but not any sectors. This could possibly be a relay site.
BAKERRR c what is
Speaking about turning off cameras.. theres no need if you're not doing anything wrong.. you're giving yourself a reason to get arrested...
The funny thing on the wall is a sanatariy towel inceranator
I've seen them when I was little when I was when I helped my dad out there obsolete then I was. Little I am 35 so it's dating back
I can remember them in my block of flats in the 60s
Dude is just like a man with his hands full 😊😊😊😊
Do these have asbestos?
Of course they do. Almost every building that's from the 60's and 70's has lots of asbestos. I'm not sure whether the boards in the motor room contain it, in my home country similar kind of boards don't. But I'd bet it's everywhere around the building, not just so visible. Having asbestos is not a horrible thing afterall, people don't actually realize how widespread it's use was. If everyone around it would get sick, we had millions of deaths. It depends a lot on how it's managed and where it is. For example having asbestos cement in a building is not really a big issue (I cannot see why the value would go down etc), but I'd not want to stay on a building with sprayed asbestos for longer than a few hours. Sprayed asbestos is just so goddamn horrible due to it's friability and the most cancerous types of asbestos being used too.
4:20 what is name
4:37 what is name
1:33 Morley ZXse fire alarm panel, I have one now
Hi Ben, your videos are so funny!
Thanks
that machine is a sanitary towel incinerator
Not me in that flat room
Has he ever gotten arrested
S Weave for what?
Yes but not for trespass
9:11 It's beeping!!!! Where's it beeping??!!
How are you not afraid of those cameras? I mean I know that they wont put you to jail or something bet when you see cameras you expect them to be monitored all the time and you just stand there "oh hello camera" :D but still very interesting video.
WARNING!!! the telephone line is disconnected
Another camva and a full view vound here
What country are going to go to next?
What would you suggest
Beno..... you should go to *Prague!*
In *Czech Republic!*
That spannish exclave in france...?
How do you get into all of the towers
14:28 Did you realise that they must of knew you were in there? because it said "Hello, your through to linklock @Beno
Whybdo i like old tower blocks ?
I don’t know
I thought it was Minecraft
XD HAHAHAH!
Yvonne's Vlogs Oh i see what you did here.
So beno, you have a triangle key right? What mm or cm did you use for otid
To open lifts you need a crucifix key. Triangle keys don't work very well. The mm sizes are not a reliable way to tell the size of the key.
9:11 It's beeping wh it beeping????
4:38 is it a cigarette bin? Perhaps this was a smoking area back in the day?
Its an old electric sanitary napkin incinerator, they were usually found in women's toilets until the early 70's.
The handle on the side opens up the flap at the top, the item to be incinerated is deposited and when the handle is release a clockwork timer switch (wound up by initial activation of the handle) turns on powerful electric elements for a set period of time. The drawer at the bottom is for ash collection. It is very unusual to find one here, they were usually only found in women's toilets.
Its a bunny burner!
that was nice.
I salute you!
The narrator is far too excited, seems to take pleasure in the problems here, and sounds like a caricature like Austin Powers.
This subject deserves a bit more seriousness and sobriety.
Everyone wants to solve these problems.
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Warning, Telephone Line Has Been Disconnected.
I LIVE CLOSE TO THAT TOWER BECAUSE I LIVE IN ARAGON TOWER
Sadly the lifts are been replaced with a horrible shit
Ben
10:02 Well any alarm warning
9:11 It's beeping!!
When cheapfly adventure?
Maybe on May 2018
9:11 It's beeping
Daubeney tower
I live in there?
How much did you pay
Could you please put a link to the previous vid
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Where I live now
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the building looks nice but it should probably have some balcony's for fire safety so that we dont get another Grenfell Tower Fire Disaster.
Um just interested how do the balconies help? The fire goes along the cladding on the surface of the building. You'd not want to be on the balcony when the fire is blazing directly under you. I think the best solution is to hermetically seal the escape ways from the corridors, and apartments from the corridors.
@@juliuseskola1281 if the cladding was fire proof/resistant then the fire would have to spread inside the building so if the stairs are blocked by the fire then people can climb down from the balconies or the fire brigade can hoist a ladder to the balcony to rescue the people waiting there to be saved
I grew up in a building in NYC which was 21 floors and the balconies saved many peoples lives in a fire. There was a fire on the 12th floor and everyone above was trapped due to the flames and smoke. Our apartment was filling up in smoke. We waited it out on the balcony for a few hours. If not for the balcony we would have died from the smoke.