OT:Hotpoint factory fire

[Tricky Dicky]

I wonder if it was one of their fridges or driers that caught fire?

[T i m]

Only if unassembled parts can spontaneously combust (as I understand the situation). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[Graham.]

They'd have needed a place to store the tea-break milk.

[Brian Gaff]

I was thinking the same but to do so inside of a truck with no power to it seems to me to be unlikely. Moor likely was an electrical fault in a truck or human sabotage. Brian

[newshound]

Maybe someone who was *still* waiting for a replacement

[S Viemeister]

I've just received a piddly GBP 70 cheque from them - pro-rated, they said. I have replaced the dryer with a different brand...

[Tricky Dicky]

My building & contents insurer recently emailed me to check if I have any Hotpoint, whirlpool, indesit & candy driers which are on the recall list and either replace,repair or upgrade them if they are. I suspect the next email will be they are not prepared to insure any of the products on the recall list unless you have done something about them.

Understandable, mind you I would not touch any of the above not after all the denials and procastination over recognising there was a fault.

Richard

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

more the house they are worried about I would think .....

[T i m]

When you see something like that burning, another factory or forest, not only do I think of all the wasted resources (that went into putting them there) but all the extra pollution that we (mankind) really don't need right now. ;-(

It's even worse when it's arson as it often only takes one match to do all that damage.

Cheers, T i m

[Steve Walker]

Did you argue that pro-rata it should be higher, because it should be rated at the time that the faults were made public and people were told to stop using them and not today?

Not sure pro-rata is fair anyway, you were pushed into making a purchase that you otherwise would not have made yet, leaving you out of pocket for the full amount of the cost of the replacement, at a time that may not have suited you.

And what about recompense for the inconvenience of having a drier that you were told not to risk using for however many years it has been?

SteveW

[S Viemeister]

No, I meekly accepted the cheque, and promised myself to not deal with them again. I bought a Candy dryer.

It certainly did not suit me - having also needed to replace one of their cookers. The new one is a Smeg.

[polygonum_on_google]

Which raises many questions over the fire prevention and control in such buildings. The Ocado fire was similarly extreme.

I suspect it means that there was no effective sprinkler system, or insufficient water available. (Yes, it amounts to the same thing, but running out of water is a different though similarly important issue.) I know it appears to have started in the trailers, but the building was self-evidently susceptible to being burned down.

[Richard]

Fuck mankind, he's to blame. It's the other life forms which don't need it.

[Andrew]

Hopefully the old one will be scrapped and not end up in one of those second hand 'scratch n dent' white goods shops, like we have in Worthing.

do you use it for cooking though ?.

[T i m]

And schools apparently.

Or the Sony video archive etc. If might be forgiven (indirectly) in some very old / listed building with low natural fire risk but something modern / utility ... ?

Quite.

Someone we know was walking back to their car in a car park and noticed it looked 'wrong'. When they got to it they noticed there was some sort of fire on the back seat and the fire brigade suggested it could have been some crystal or glass etc (not uncommon for them).

And as you suggest, really shouldn't be 'in this day and age'?

Ok, we know a false trigger in say an art gallery could do a lot of unnecessary damage ... and maybe that is part of the issue re insurance in such places but in a school?

Ok, I appreciate some kids might lose their work (sprinklers) or the school lose some equipment but surely better that than lose the entire facility for many months / for ever for a few hundred children? That is time they will never get back and doubling up in another school really isn't a good solution.

I wonder if it is just / only a matter of money. Like it's often cheaper to accept thefts from a shop than pay for a security guard (when they can't do much and have the bad press when taking guilty people to court)? [1]

Cheers, T i m

[1] Or overhearing a Police motorcyclist in a bike shop saying he wouldn't want a tracker or any other security features (Datatag / Smartwater) on his personal motorbike as he wouldn't want it back (likely all damaged / messed up) if it was stolen > recovered and would want the insurance money instead.