Steel framed house 1950s build

[catnick67]

You would need to either clad the steelwork in plasterboard or paint it with fireproof paint

 

[tony1851]

Not steel framed, but very interesting all the same:

Look at the geezer carrying roof tiles up a ladder on his head, no hands!

Plans drawn by hand, and in imperial; not a hi-vis or hard hat on site; much work non-mechanized, and still they managed 250 - 300,000 dwellings per year.

 

[empip]

Quote from the web site address I gave earlier.
http://www.prcbuilder.co.uk/Defective-Houses-List.php

"...PRC Builder
Specialists in PRC licensed repairs and rebuilds on concrete houses
There are many types of traditional, PRC and other non traditional constructions. However, only
the following types of construction are classed as defective under part XVI Housing Act 1985.


England and Wales

Airey House
Boot House
Boswell house
Cornish Type 1 House
Cornish Type 2 House
Dorran House
Dyke House
Gregory House
Hawksley House
Lileshall House
Myton House
Newland House
Orlit House
Parkinson Frame House
Reema Hollow Panel House
Schindler House
Smith House
Stent House
Stonecrete House
Tarran House
Underdown House
Unity House
Butterley House
Waller House
Wates house
Wessex House
Winget House
Woolaway House


Scotland
Blackburn Orlit House
Boot House
Dorran House
Lileshall House
Lindsay House
Myton Clyde House
Orlit House
Tarran House
Tarran Clyde House
Tee Beam
Unitroy House
Whitson Fairhurst House
Winget House..."

Veracity of info' above ? Unknown.
Time to check out relevant Housing Act or whatever it is known as today.

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[Nozzle]

Surely steel is almost as sturdy as brick or stone in a fire ?

No way, once it starts to buckle with heat the strength is lost (Which is why steels are protected by fire barriers). Also, steel rusts when rain water gets in..

Nozzle

 

[mikeey84]

Surely steel is almost as sturdy as brick or stone in a fire ?

No way, once it starts to buckle with heat the strength is lost (Which is why steels are protected by fire barriers). Also, steel rusts when rain water gets in..

Nozzle

Apparently jet fuel will melt steel beams.

 

[Nozzle]

Apparently jet fuel will melt steel beams.

I don't know about that.

But I recon if said jet fuel is on fire it would go quite some way to making it bendy and misaligned.

Nozzle

 

[gas112]

 

[EFLImpudence]

Apparently jet fuel will melt steel beams.

I don't know about that.

I think he is sardonically referring to the twin towers (while whistling).

 

[Nozzle]

Guns don't kill people, rappers do.

Jet fuel doesn't melt steel, fire does.

Nozzle

 

[securespark]

That doesn't quite follow...

You need to change "rappers" to "bullets".

Or "fire" to "terrorists".

 

[mikeey84]

Apparently jet fuel will melt steel beams.

I don't know about that.

I think he is sardonically referring to the twin towers (while whistling).

I was. I was referring an often quoted conspiracy theory that burning jet fuel won't melt steel beams, which it won't per se. However it will obviously weaken them enough to bend.

 

[Brigadier]

Or jet fuel will help start other things burning, which will themselves be hot enough to cause steel to buckle.

 

[mikeey84]

Or jet fuel will help start other things burning, which will themselves be hot enough to cause steel to buckle.

Exactly. It's one of the more ridiculous aspects of the conspiracy theory (which in itself is pretty ridiculous)