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Hello, I'm Eddie Mayor and this is the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast, reporting every day the inquiry sits.

Just one witness gave evidence to the inquiry today.

In 2017, Elizabeth Sobyshechek lived in flat 43 on the seventh floor with her husband Michael

and their grown-up daughter Florentina.

Elizabeth Sobiyashchek said she was happy with the windows which were replaced in her flat during the refurbishment.

But she did have issues with what was put on the outside of the building.

Counsel to the inquiry, Bill Al-Rawat, read from her written statement.

When they were putting on the insulation and cladding, I could see that it was very badly done.

There were gaps everywhere, but they just covered up the bad workmanship.

Everything was plastic.

You could put your finger inside the gaps between the cladding, even after they had finished, especially at the corners.

By the kitchen window there

was an even bigger back gap and they simply covered it with black duct tape and how was that fixed

it wasn't i could still see at the gap you mentioned the use of black duct tape.

That's right.

So did someone come, put black duct tape over the gap and then go away?

There were kind of elevators when they were putting the cladding outside. So they were like traveling up and just masking whatever it had to be done. In June 2017 was the black duct tape still

there? Yes, until the night of the fire. On the 14th of June 2017, Elizabeth Tobayeshchek was having

trouble sleeping. She saw her daughter arrive home after midnight. As she tried to get to sleep,

she heard the ventilation shafts on the ground floor start working.

She went to her front door and looked into the lobby.

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