Trellick tower urban exploring 

I love these videos 👌 I’m a 54 year old lady from Edinburgh and as I was actually born in a tower block in 1966 I am so interested in this stuff. The block I lived in was called Capelaw Court in Edinburgh and was demolished in 2005 it was heartbreaking watching it getting blown up. We lived on the 14th floor. We moved out in 1982 , my parents were the first tenants to occupy our flat back in 1961 before I was born . It was a brilliant place to grow up it was like a village in the sky. On the ground floor there was 3 washrooms with massive washers that were top loading . I was fascinated with these and washed my dolls clothes in them much to the annoyance of the mums waiting on a machine . My brother was always surfing the lifts and made a key out of an old bicycle pump as he always watched the express lift engineers accessing the top of the lift and copied the shape of the key. You guys would have lived Capelaw Court it was an H shaped building with the maisonettes in the middle . There was a long landing on the 2nd, 5th, 8th, 11th and 14th floor. Keep up the adventures but be safe lads . Cheers Eve 😃

According to Wikipedia the boiler room was in operation for only one year. The tower opened in 1972, and in 1973 was the oil crisis during which the prices for oil skyrocketed. So these oil-fired boilers were quickly taken out of service and the apartments were fitted with electric heaters. Good thing that removing all the old equipment from up there would be extremely expensive because this means that this "museum" will probably remain for the future.

Thank you for this awesome video. I love this architecture and it is so interesting to see its inner workings.

Even the railings in that boiler room are amazing. You're a breath of fresh air Beno!

My old school still had and used it's original 1970s boiler until about 2019 to my knowledge. I remember it used to break down quite often

When you were in the motor room you should have entered more calls to lure the concierge to go in a lift and right when that lift is behind a wall of a secret floor that it does not serve turn the power off and leave him in the lift to wait the engineers to release him.

Superb. Well done 😎✅

Imagine the concierge seeing this 😂 💀

There have been multiple offers by developers to turn the unused spaces in the plant room into a penthouse but they've never accepted the offer. I think when the lift motors get replaced soon, almost all of it could be emptied out. Awesome video!

Comment section of Jago bought me here. Great video!! Keep it up.

Thanks! Is interesting visit all corners of that building.

Nice boiler room :D

Grate trip down memory lane for me Big thanks guys I lived across the road in homfield house well I grew up there watched 2 man jump with para shoot off roof of T|tower but only 1 opened so unfortunately 1 didn’t make it I was just a kid on my way home from school then I’m 51 now all the old London is being knocked down or hidden under cladding it’s grate you are putting all this on RU-vid the 21st century version of a photo album and history book Thank you Beno 👍👍

Nice video you guys are awesome!

Such an awesome video!

Trellick is so beautiful, a masterpiece of Brutalism.

Amazing! You guys have the skill of Mission Impossible agents. I just imagine the boiler room with the music from that classic 60’s spy series for added atmosphere. That boiler room would make a nice setpiece for spy movies. Those old boilers also have a lot of Bakelite switches, that’s a material you don’t really see anymore. My uncle collects old electrical outlets and switches and many of them are made from Bakelite.

awesome video

Ben went back in time! Yay!

Love your videos

Ben these boilers are not efficient. They were installed because they were cheap in terms of the fuel they burned. That changed with the oil shocks of the 70's when oil producing nations realized how they were being ripped off and shot up their prices. Suddenly the fuel for these things skyrocketed in price so it was much cheaper to install electric water heaters in each flat. They are also inefficient in terms of the electrical power consumed by their circulation pumps. It's not only the fuel they burn, it's pumping the hot water around the building which would be done by one or two very large 3 phase water pumps. The entire building would have had hot water pipes in a return loop back to the boilers. The idea is hot water is circulated around the hot water loop so hot water is available anywhere in the building. When somebody turns on a hot tap it draws hot water off of the loop running through that flat. If this wasn't being done somebody on the 5th floor would be waiting an awful long time for hot water to arrive all the way from the boiler room. And those pumps would run 24/7 pumping hot water around in circles. That boarding school I told you about I went to in the 70's and 80's had a system like this. That school was demolished 10 years ago and replaced with new buildings. The difference in the electrical bill was huge with the removal of the boiler room and its circulation pumps. It is still a boarding school but instead of a central boiler room it now has bathrooms with a 300 liter hot water cylinder next to each bathroom.

13m 48 seconds, old pirate radio aerials

Awesome

I live less than aMile from Trellick. One of the last spots in Notting hill thats still old school.

Hi Beno! Will you be doing any videos on the W12 centre at Shepherds Bush which has a 1960s tower block above it, and Ashcroft Square at Hammersmith?

Awesome video! Although maybe put photos in the video like you used to! I struggle to see all the awesome things you capture because the camera is moving too fast! Again, love all this stuff

I know this might sound crazy but the building is Grade II listed so does that mean the boilers are too?

Ben ive been glued into your lift videos for the last few nights, great job and you have me wanting to be on a lift with you when surfing!! Can you do Broadwater Farm in Tottenham, north London? the uk government want to pull the place down. i used to live in the area and had many friends that lived in the estate. there was lots of 70's lifts there that where badly modernised in the 90's for you to hate on, it would be great watching!!

Dude, you should be a voice actor in South Park, your voice is hilairous, I was really getting musle pain from laughing at your voice. :D

Always wanted to go here, slightly jealous that you got to go there.

Lucky man!

I live in a tower block now 16th floor I love all the views I’m in Walsall west midlands

Cool you passed my floor 24

35 Roof level 34 Water tanks 33 Lift motor room 32 Upper boiler room 31 Lower boiler room 28.5 Mobile communications 25.5 Mobile communications 22.5 Unexpected empty floor 19.5 Water tanks 16.5 Plant room 15A (but is locked off) 13.5 Water tanks 10.5 Boiler room equipment 7.5 Plant room 6A (but is locked off) 4.5 Water pumps 2 Community

I'm surprised there's not a davit type crane permanently on the roof of the service tower... I mean you're not going to get a grand piano in one of those weird narrow lifts, eh wot? But perhaps that's why the boilers were "retired in place", and are still there decades later.

Wow superb! Can you come do some round by me?!

Doesn't urban exploring sometimes feel like playing pacman with the ghosts following you all the time?

Lift Technicians with comedic voices, who aren't afraid to abuse their access keys... LOVE IT! :D Also gotta love the safety factor of having the oil-fired boilers in a completely separate tower from the living spaces... fck'ing BRILLIANT!... stylish too.

It's got to be a thankless task being the concierge of this tower block. Dealing with all sorts at all hours of the day would send anyone round the bend. Mouthy kids, old dears, silent types ~ no wonder he's a rude git. I've had the experience of dealing with him/one of his clones and the unnerving feeling of my every move being watched is still burnt into the back of my head. Still managed to score though. Nöel Coward said "If you want to be subversive, dress like a stockbroker." It works!

trellick is excellent. Ben, when can you come to America? i want to film with you.

These towers in London are a reminder of how industrial it became.

Does Jordan ever take. Photos of the servers and things he finds?

Why’s it covered in scaffolding?

Lifts modernised kinda recently so sadly nobody filmed them in their original condition. Any idea what they were like before?

The Benoster STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!!! Great job man this really fuels my autistic inclinations ☺️😘🤠😳🦐

The lifts work fast.

how did you get in when I cycled there I went in the entrance and a officer stopped me and told me where am I going then I told him that I'm here to film the lifts then he said no and kicked me out

i have a cousin who lives is the Trellick tower 30th floor

I feel safer with the old *worm gear* lift motor setups because, hey, inherent *braking* eh? You can't drive a worm gear from a spur gear, only the worm gear can be the driver...

All of your photographs are taken in 4:3 aspect ratio and you could edit them to fit the videos aspect ratio and I think your videos would look good aswell in 18:9/2:1 aspect ratio because it looks more cinematic and wider and the things you do would really suit this! What do you think to these suggestions?

You're mad as a hatter but that's why we love you and subscribe!

I used to live here

Yatta! First!

I love. The deasal pumps. That's what the spill kits. There for.

I agree that the building is interesting, but they look ugly as hell. I don’t really know about the living conditions in them but they don’t look great that’s for sure.

Trellick Tower Has A High-Rise Elevator!

Chill out my guy. Otherwise great video.

So... the "concierge" (aka Security Guard) is a German SS sergeant? @8:29 ... lol...

These so-called "custom" padlocks are NOT Medeco, or similar super-tricky designs with multi-axis pins... awaiting further videos, with upgraded lock-picking skills... ;') ... after all, Beno's tax money is paying for these Council schemes and intrigues... da public has a "right to know", eh wot?

There is A fucking concierge in this block? What?

First stop

Let's.... Pokémon Tretta!

28.5 Mobile communications 25.5 Mobile communications 22.5 ??????????????? 19.5 Water tanks 16.5 ??????????????? But is locked off 13.5 Water tanks 10.5 Boiler room equipment 7.5 ?????????????? But is locked off 4.5 Water pumps 2 Community

You have been reported for unlawful trespass and use of a drop key.

*REPEAT!!!!!!!!*

MMMM SOUNDS FAMILIAR

You need to calm down and stop talking so fast, like someone possessed.. I wanted to watch but had to switch off because of the annoying narrative..