Purley Way Fire
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 martin2412  Living The Dream 31 Dec 18 11.10pm |
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Huge fire at self storage warehouse on Purley Way. Avoid area people.
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| PALACE FOR EVER London 01 Jan 19 9.41am |
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There have been no reports of any injuries. A photo posted on social media by London Fire Brigade (LFB) suggested the fire is at a Shurgard self-storage facility.
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| martin2412 Living The Dream 01 Jan 19 10.24am |
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You wouldn't believe the stuff I had in there. It must amount to thousands
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| Tom-the-eagle Croydon 01 Jan 19 10.52am |
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Originally posted by martin2412
You wouldn't believe the stuff I had in there. It must amount to thousands
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| Mapletree Croydon 01 Jan 19 11.09am |
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Croydon had a pall over it last night, still hanging around this morning I thought it was just fireworks and spliffs as usual. In truth, it was really catching the throat and we are the other side of Croydon. It was obvious there was a big fire the minute we stepped outside around 10pm. My son got some amazing photos from central Croydon looking across to the Purley Way.
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| Stuk Top half 07 Jan 19 2.58pm |
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Originally posted by martin2412
You wouldn't believe the stuff I had in there. It must amount to thousands
It only took a week. You'd surely get additional insurance if you had nearly £200,000 of possessions in what is effectively a lock up with £2,000 of cover, if you took it out.
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cryrst  The garden of England 07 Jan 19 8.03pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
It only took a week. You'd surely get additional insurance if you had nearly £200,000 of possessions in what is effectively a lock up with £2,000 of cover, if you took it out. The old chesnut.
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| paperhat croydon 09 Jan 19 4.02pm |
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As someone who lost a lifetime of mementoes in the fire, I'm torn. On one hand, I was well aware of the claim limit of my policy, and bar the sentimental stuff, 2k would cover the junk that was in there - ish. The people that are stating they had 100's of thousands of pounds of stock etc in there, more fool them. The insurance cover was clearly laid out when the unit was sold to you and anyone who is dumb enough to not think about the additional cover at that level of financial commitment, must be a bit of a loon. I get the time for settlement etc even if insured can be crippling to a business, but at least you'll be getting something back. My gripe is now, with the status of the building, the open-topped storage units and the ease at which the fire spread, effectively the culpability of Shurgard in this catastrophe.
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| Stuk Top half 09 Jan 19 4.36pm |
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Originally posted by paperhat
As someone who lost a lifetime of mementoes in the fire, I'm torn. On one hand, I was well aware of the claim limit of my policy, and bar the sentimental stuff, 2k would cover the junk that was in there - ish. The people that are stating they had 100's of thousands of pounds of stock etc in there, more fool them. The insurance cover was clearly laid out when the unit was sold to you and anyone who is dumb enough to not think about the additional cover at that level of financial commitment, must be a bit of a loon. I get the time for settlement etc even if insured can be crippling to a business, but at least you'll be getting something back. My gripe is now, with the status of the building, the open-topped storage units and the ease at which the fire spread, effectively the culpability of Shurgard in this catastrophe. Sorry to hear that. As for the status of the building though, it's just a warehouse effectively. As with any other it just needs to be a large open space, like B&Q or something similar, and the walls are only there to basically apportion your space of it and not to be fire proof each unit. The only areas they would have to fire protect would be the reception area where there will be employees on a regular basis for prolonged periods. Even with a sprinkler system you'd then have people moaning that everything got wet if it went off for any reason other than a major fire like this.
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| cryrst The garden of England 10 Jan 19 9.32pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
Sorry to hear that. As for the status of the building though, it's just a warehouse effectively. As with any other it just needs to be a large open space, like B&Q or something similar, and the walls are only there to basically apportion your space of it and not to be fire proof each unit. The only areas they would have to fire protect would be the reception area where there will be employees on a regular basis for prolonged periods. Even with a sprinkler system you'd then have people moaning that everything got wet if it went off for any reason other than a major fire like this. It is a secure storage unit.
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| Stuk Top half 10 Jan 19 9.45pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
It is a secure storage unit. They wouldn't as from my experience of them the walls are just bare blockwork or metal. The doors wouldn't be fire rated though even if they did have ceilings within them.
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| cryrst The garden of England 10 Jan 19 10.00pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
They wouldn't as from my experience of them the walls are just bare blockwork or metal. The doors wouldn't be fire rated though even if they did have ceilings within them. The main loadbearing and corridoor to unit walls are block, but the unit walls are normally corrugated sheet metal.this will burn at the right temperature.
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