Since 1984, when the Defective Housing Act was passed following the discovery of the widespread deterioration of Wates PRC Houses in Birmingham. There been problems associated with Wates PRC houses built in Birmingham. But it had taken an act of Parliament to have Wates PRC Houses built in Birmingham declared as defective. Wates houses in Birmingham were built in the 1940's and 1950's to cope with the increased demand for housing in Birmingham. Wates houses in Birmingham were built using Precast Reinforced Concrete at a time when building materials and tradesmen from Birmingham were in short supply. Wates PRC Houses in Birmingham were practically built in kit form. Following the widespread negative publicity about the defects found on Wates PRC houses in Birmingham and the passing of the Defective Housing Act of 1984 these houses became blighted. Historically grants were made available to have a licensed PRC repair carried out on a Wates PRC house in Birmingham by specialist builders, however these are no longer grants available so an owner of a Wates PRC House in Birmingham will be looking at a repair cost of over £40,000 to bring a Wates PRC House in Birmingham up to mortgagable standard. |
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The problem with concrete houses in Birmingham were that the concrete crumbles away, the steel reinforcement erodes and cracks appear on Birmingham Concrete houses. Concrete houses built in Birmingham prior to 1960 were deteriorating rapidly and were in urgent need of the removal of the concrete on the Birmingham concrete house. The full PRC repair will remove all of the concrete from the Birmingham house. At the time Birmingham City Council had employed structural engineers M Dysons Associates to obtain tenders on behalf of Birmingham City Council in order to have full prc repairs carried out on Wates houses in Birmingham.In Birmingham there several thousand of the 1.5 million prefabricated concrete houses built during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 200 Cornish Concrete prc houses were sold to Birmingham City Council tenants under the right to buy scheme in Birmingham, with Birmingham City Council still maintaining hundreds of Airey, Cornish type 11, Boot, Stent, Unity and Wates Concrete houses. |
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