Bedridden pensioner Eunice Kelly lights a cigarette in her bed. Accidentally, the ashes caused a fire
Imagine you were living in the same tower block
Good thing For Housing Group spent £5 million installing sprinklers on their 17 tower blocks, including Enfield House, where the fire happened.
Property market trends say buyers looking at properties below the current 30 meter threshold won’t push through with the purchase unless the flats have sprinklers.
Some banks decline mortgage applications for properties without sprinklers.
Even if you get an interested buyer…
The purchase might not push through if the bank doesn’t see your property as a sound investment worthy of a mortgage.
Wales was the first country ever to make sprinklers a requirement in all new homes.
Scotland will follow suit in autumn in 2019.
England might follow suit and do the same.
Imagine: your flat is on fire, the fire brigade starts hosing down everything.
A hose will discharge 600 litres of water per minute
But a sprinkler will discharge
60 litres
Sprinklers are your 24-hour Fire Fighter on stand by.
Fire alarms run out of batteries.
You won’t always be able to reach the fire extinguisher in time.
Sprinklers do all the work for you, even when you’re asleep.
Sprinklers reduce fire damage by up to 85% because they work immediately.
They’re so effective that 4 sprinkler heads are enough to control 60% of fires according to Fire Safety Advice Centre UK.
Sprinklers also buy people more time to evacuate, leading
to less casualties.
SAVE
20% to 30%