Diy job gone wrong?????

[harryagain]

[John Rumm]

Did you not read the sub head? :

"THIS is the dramatic moment a home worth nearly half a million pounds was torn in half and reduced to rubble - *just weeks after builders moved in*."

and later the quote from Michael Kennedy : "I do know that home was having some work done over the weekend, including some demolition work, taking out walls, but we would just be speculating"

[Richard]

Got that bit right then.

[Brian Gaff]

No its Mr Beans latest project I'd imagine. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Walls have ears and make Sausages and Ice Cream. Brian

[MattyF]

Looks like double brick walls holding the roof up. Lucky you don't get many earthquakes or hurricanes or earth movement!

[Andrew Gabriel]

The BBC report has a 'before' picture (from google streetview)

[Tim Watts]

Looks to me by the size of the girders that the house was built or modified to be very open plan.

My theory is someone opened a wall right under a girder support pad without thinking/realising.

Once one fell out, as can be seen in the Express piccies) enough other crap fell down to take out most of the end walls.

[Tim Lamb]

The mortar does not seem well attached to the bricks. I wonder if the cement used in the original construction was up to spec.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Building construction doesn't (or at least, shouldn't) rely on mortar to 'glue' bricks together. Actually, it would be more accurate to say the mortar keeps the bricks apart - keeping them stable under the influence of gravity.