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Are all modern houses as flimsy as this?
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GDB2222
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-67822316
There seems to be a single skin of brick, just 4.5" thick, and I guess the rest is lightweight timber plus plasterboard, although there's not much left after the car collided with it, so it's hard to tell?
There seems to be a single skin of brick, just 4.5" thick, and I guess the rest is lightweight timber plus plasterboard, although there's not much left after the car collided with it, so it's hard to tell?
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
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Not such a modern house. Looks like an 80's or 90's build.
You can see it is cavity wall construction just not as wide a cavity as a more modern build.
The timber props look temporary to stop any further movement until someone can get to do more of a repair.
Our 5 year old "new build" is tradional construction with brick skin 165mm cavity and block work inner. If it was hit by a car it would be damaged.
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Looking at the pile of rubble in the foreground of the picture, there seem to be some blocks there.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?2
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There’s definitely a an inner breezeblock skin2006 LBM £28,000+ in debt.
2021 mortgage and debt free, working part time and living the dream0 -
The timber is all temporary structural support.
You can see inner blocks and cavity in the top left hand corner of the void and breeze blocks close to ground level on right hand side.1 -
Nowhere to get acrows xmas day
hope the emergency services involved got back for their xmas dinner 4 -
Given there's (probably literally) a chance in a million of a house sustaining impact from a high speed motor vehicle - no, they're not designed to do so.2
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Did it have a front and side window?GDB2222 said:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-67822316
There seems to be a single skin of brick, just 4.5" thick, and I guess the rest is lightweight timber plus plasterboard, although there's not much left after the car collided with it, so it's hard to tell?
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Well it's not that flimsy!! Despite the corner being knocked out - the second floor didn't collapse prior to them putting in those temporary support timbers. Right after the incident there would have just been a big hole!7
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Standard construction for age I would say. Single brick breeze cavity wall.
Were you expecting RSJ vertical and horizontal so the car bounced back into the road?3 -
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Looks to have held up quite well in the circumstances. gas and electric were on that wall.1
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