Following up the thread on this of a couple of weeks back - here's a cracker from this morning's paper (you'll need to buy a hard copy to see the pictures unfortunately...)
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Great DIY disasters - a late entry
Feb 15, 2005
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weight of the thatch was too much for it - or that work had been undertaken on it which weakened something. "
ATM it seem that it's only one of many possibilities, It would be nice if it was a 'DIY' induced problem, otherwise the next door properties could have problems too....
I'm not registered with The Times and I can see it online.
Eeek.
move away and it will have one fewer village idiot.
Christian.
It was a listed building and he may have done it on purpose in order to be able to rebuild it as something bigger/better ?
I suggest the real 'village idiots' read the story rather than just assume...
improvers:
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Well, its certainly listing now! ;)
A high risk strategy in more than one way. He could be compelled to rebuild it to the former condition. It will be interesting to hear if he needed, and actually had, permission for what he was doing
What a shame :-(
Mary
Ah - so can I, now: it's obviously been added in during the morning!
It looks a pretty amazing collapse. There seems to be little rubble, so perhaps the walls were clay lump? That can collapse disastrously like that if water seeps in. Perhaps the thatch had become porous?
Peter Scott
Or Insurance........... Baz
If I hear anything, I'll let you know. It's about 2 miles from where I am currently sitting!
Did you feel the Earth move?
Mary
it was covered in the "Metro" free rag today - here's a larger, but rather poor scan I just did :-
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(600kb)
says he only removed some stud walls ....
would this have been of "cob" construction ?
Oh! I get "The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."
Only???
We can't see, can we!
Mary
"brugnospamsia" wrote | it was covered in the "Metro" free rag today - here's a larger, but | rather poor scan I just did :- |
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(600kb) | says he only removed some stud walls .... | would this have been of "cob" construction ?
I think those 'stud walls' probably were structural timber post and beam.
Owain
looks like everyone wanted a look...
I'll know not to do that again.
time to rent myself some decent webspace !
No doubt!
Think the real problem was it was such a big file at 600K - relatively few viewings would have quickly cranked up your quota. With a low res image like that, you could have easily got away with reducing it to about 10K, with no discernable difference!
David
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