I keep seeing sums like £50k and £100k per flat for cladding. How is that possible? Isn't that multiple times what a new roof would cost on a house? Or a substantial extension.
Generally the entire exterior walls of a tower now needs to be removed and replaced. While residents remain resident in the tower. It’s not easy to cheap to retrofit the buildings.
Or maybe it is and the building industry is run by scumbags who having created this issue, are now double dipping.
Or maybe it’s a little bit of both. I don’t know myself.
True, that looks like a substantial amount. The outside of an average flat is a few square meters (45m2 already seems a lot). It surely can't cost upwards of £1000/m2 to replace cladding? A (Australian) price quote on the web says £12k for a house of 400m2.
Or maybe it is and the building industry is run by scumbags who having created this issue, are now double dipping.
Or maybe it’s a little bit of both. I don’t know myself.