1/ Bitter sweet...after nearly £200,000 spent on waking watch and related works & surveys...it looks like our £7K a week waking watch is soon to be lifted!🤞Great welcomed news, but no thanks to @mhclg's inefficacious Waking Watch Relief Fund (aka 'alarm fund') here's why... 2/ @MetisBuilding was a prime candidate for the fund.

To lift our WW we either had to address the internal defects which instigated the WW or install an £89K alarm. When the fund was announced on 17/12/20, I hoped we'd get an alarm covered fast, buying time to sort these defects

3 yrs ago we found our building had the same type of cladding as Grenfell. 3 yrs on, & we don’t even have a schedule for its removal.

No matter how hard you try, you can never fully communicate to someone who isn’t affected by this scandal what it actually feels like. (1/12) It prompts remarks such as, ’No, they can’t ask you to pay, that’s not fair. There must be something you can do’. I explain again & then that’s where it gets awkward - most people aren’t that well versed in what to say to you when you tell them your home is worth nothing. (2/12)