Damage by skip company

VLANotts1000

Also the skip is covered in marks hard to tell which might be due to hitting my wall 😕

VLANotts1000

These are the pillars pre- ‘demolition!’

Alderbank

If the second pic is 'before' then I don't think it was the skip lorry.

pulliptears

Go and see if any of your neighbours have CCTV or a Ring Doorbell.  Though unless they have a subscription with Ring it wont record.

DE_612183

From my experience when I had a skip they unload in a straight line - so looking at your pictures the skip would not have gone close enough to the pillar to do that - of course they could have tried to get it past the pillar, knocked it over, and then attempted to unload at a different angle.

If you have some damage on the skip as well, definitely get photos of that especially if there is anything on it - also is there any yellow paint of the pillar? I would have expected there to be some.

Grumpy_chap

When were the "before" photos taken?

When were the "after" photos taken?

It is just that in the "after" photos, that does not look like a recently collapsed pillar.

VLANotts1000

It’s definitely a recently collapsed pillar. I drove into the driveway myself on Friday morning and they were intact. The pictures were taken in May before the house sale went through

diystarter7

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To be brutally honest, the outfit is not going to back down without hard evidence. And without the aforementioned, you are wasting your time and increasing stress.

Why not just cap it off as IMO the skip lot will never own up.

Good luck

diystarter7

pulliptears said:

Go and see if any of your neighbours have CCTV or a Ring Doorbell.  Though unless they have a subscription with Ring it wont record.

First-year is included in the price ie recordings kept for x amount of time. 

Ergates

Grumpy_chap said:

When were the "before" photos taken?

When were the "after" photos taken?

It is just that in the "after" photos, that does not look like a recently collapsed pillar.

It does to me - the brickwork/mortar exposed by the collapsed hasn't weathered at all

The plant growing over the collapsed pillar is ivy which means it's probably attached to the pillar and was pulled down with it.