I was brought up in a concrete prefab on a steel frame house until I was 17 and left home. Homes for hero's they were called and were thrown up in vast numbers to house people returning from WW2 and deal with housing shortages.
The issue was they used steel sections that bolted together onsite, and didnt use corrosion proof bolts for the joints. So 25+ years later, the structural bolts holding the main connections together were corroding.
The council got specialists in to bore access holes and replace the bolts (presumeably for another 25 years before they corroded but it would be SEP by then...) and do a brick outside course all round the house.
The problem was our only access to the rear being mid terrace was down a shared allyway underneath some of the upstairs rooms in our house, and after with the reduction in the width of 2x courses of bricks, none of us could fit our bikes down it to park at the rear like we did...
At one point during the introduction of right to buy, everyone found out you couldnt get mortgages on it, then a committee set up a special arrangement with a broker to arrange cover them.
TL,DR; they were shoddily designed and built and thrown up en masse, and the fixes applied probably have the same issues long term.
Just my opinion, but I want something as expensive a investment as a house to have bricks or stone construction.
The issue was they used steel sections that bolted together onsite, and didnt use corrosion proof bolts for the joints. So 25+ years later, the structural bolts holding the main connections together were corroding.
The council got specialists in to bore access holes and replace the bolts (presumeably for another 25 years before they corroded but it would be SEP by then...) and do a brick outside course all round the house.
The problem was our only access to the rear being mid terrace was down a shared allyway underneath some of the upstairs rooms in our house, and after with the reduction in the width of 2x courses of bricks, none of us could fit our bikes down it to park at the rear like we did...
At one point during the introduction of right to buy, everyone found out you couldnt get mortgages on it, then a committee set up a special arrangement with a broker to arrange cover them.
TL,DR; they were shoddily designed and built and thrown up en masse, and the fixes applied probably have the same issues long term.
Just my opinion, but I want something as expensive a investment as a house to have bricks or stone construction.
