howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Should help to solve the housing shortage but the article doesn't mention cost or how long they would last.
http://news.sky.com/story/new-wave-of-prefabs-to-tackle-housing-crisis-10638268Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
the last lot in the linces lasted from the late 40's until the mid 60's.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,706
Depends on the type of prefab, these vary from "pods" that are pretty much built in a factory and then bolted together and clad on site to more conventional timber frame kits, again mostly factory built and then put together on site like a big boys lego set. The former cost from the low £20,000s for a small 2 bed home and the latter start at around the same sort of price but do not include things like sanitary wear, kitchens etc. Prices exclude land costs, crane costs and VAT if applicable & assume all services are available on site.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I was in Dover when the last lot was put up and taken down but they were build with Asbestos in them so no good today, but you re right it would help.I do not know why ,we did not send out homes like that with our own builders and put them up in place where there has been wars etc which would help stop all of the public coming over here to live etc and it would help rebuild their own towns and in doing it would save us from looking after them over in the UK +they would have their own homes.
Guest 1385- Registered: 27 Oct 2014
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Great call Mr Vic.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
My nan lived in one on Buckland estate,i,m sure she was still in the prefab till the early 70s.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
An interesting link re. The catford prefabs, I fitted and serviced ceiling hoists in two of them for a few years. It was a lovely little estate a shame it cannot be preserved!
http://www.viaduct.co.uk/blog/catford-prefabs-under-threat-hidden-london/Alec Sheldon and Paul M like this
Arte et Marte
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Some might have been it took along time to get rid of them all ,they were all over the town not just up on Buckland anywhere that had some ground you would find them .
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
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I lived in a pre fab in Deal until I was 7 . they were great. Fridges, bathrooms, no outside loos. That was luxury. My cousin of the same age lived around the corner in a pit house & was still bathing in a tin bath in the front room.
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