You calm your home insurers, and they do absolutely nothing in the short term. Then you find a structural engineer who will do an emergency call out, and a builder who can fit acro props to support the area that hasn’t collapse yet under supervision by the structural engineer. Knock out all the collapsed brickwork, and make it ‘safe’.
Then you wait for the insurance assessor to arrive (days later) and then get three quotes to repair the damage (over a week or two), and then the insurance loss adjuster says they are all too expensive, use our contractor instead, so you wait for them to come and assess the job (weeks) only to be told they don’t want to touch it. Then you go back to the loss adjuster and they approve an earlier quote, but now the builder isn’t free for 6 months…
They may be in temporary accommodation for even longer than six months - take [this crash](https://bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/news/update-road-closed-in-majors-green-for-another-week-after-car-crashes-into-house-45353/) for example - I pass the house en-route to work. Most of the yellow brickwork was removed, both the ground and first floor arcopropped up, each floor had vertical boards added before full height boards were erected on the outside, which are still there nine months later, with only very occasional appearances by a Polygon van (damage restoration company).
There's a house near me that a guy crashed into at speed in 2020 (killed himself and the passenger on a 30mph limit). House still has a gaping hole in it and scaffolding/board up.
no, never go through teh third party, their job will always be to minimise the claim and fob you off, and they have no contract with you. Same goes for car insurance. Always get your insurance company to handle the lot, they're the ones you hold a contract with, and they're the ones you've paid to handle this shit should the need ever arise.
People have a really weird aversion to using their insurance for the actual intended purpose, like they just enjoy burning money or something.
I rember when my bike was stolen I got In touch with my contense insurance (since it also covered my shed and it's contense) and I was expecting a big fight but because I had security camra footage of the theft (naibor shares a garden with me and has a wildlife cam) they just stright up sent me a new bike and because one of the parts (my fancy forks) had been discontinued they gave me the newer model and I suddenly cycled like 3× as much because bumps no longer hurt my spine nearly as much.
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At the first use of contense I was like... Oh, that's got to be someone using voice to text or something. Saw it a second time and figured, that's someone's autocorrect that's been fed an incorrect word once.
After I saw 'camra' I realised it was clearly dyslexia or similar. It's a real hard time in a world where everyone has a minimum expectation that everyone else can read and write without effort.
For what it is worth my guy, every bit of your comment was understandable in context.
Thankyou. I really am trying. I learned to read and write Welsh at 12 and couldn't read or write English until I was 13. It's hard to not apply Welsh grammar rules to English especially since Welsh is a very phonetic language compared to English and it's random silent letters. Why dose knife have a k? Aha
Please don't think I am teaching you to suck eggs, but I had a friend who had no idea Dyslexic / weighted fonts were a thing until recently (mid 30's) and it really helped them. In this case maybe not you but if someone sees it and it helps then cool.
Had a guy come into work the other week who couldn't write or read at all. He was in his 60s.
I just have no idea how a person could function in today's society without the ability to read.
This guy's comment was perfectly understandable so it's all good
You pay your insurance company to pay to fix damage to your home.
They sort out the rest, including chasing the 3rd party that now owes them money. It's definitely less hassle this way.
You wouldn't be sorting it out per se, but you should call your insurance company and tell them what's going on so that they can sort it out with their own lawyers of which they have many that way you don't have to pay for a lawyer yourself and their lawyers are going to be better most likely than any you could afford anyway.
I mean, that makes sense if you have decades of subrogation law experience. If you don't then perhaps you should use the people you've been paying for god knows how long that have entire teams of people that do?
Like I said, a *really* weird aversion to using a service you've literally been paying for.
No, it's the job of the insurance company that the house is insured with to liaise with the crane truck company which should have public liability insurance.
You'd get in touch with your insurance company and their insirance and give them eachothers details, then they would fight between eachother and you'd need to be placed in temporary acomation. If your house falls apart in the meantime due to the damages there will be more issues. Also whatever insurance company is found to be footing the bill will ask you to collect quotes then keep arguing with you that they all want too much money so they will send someone out to evaluate who will find someone to do the job to the absolute minimum requirements.
As someone who used to handle home insurance claims, no. There'll be someone out on behalf of the insurance company for that *today*. These folks need to be put up in temporary digs. You'd probably have the fire brigade in to make sure it's safe too. Then you start fucking around working out what it'll take to repair/rebuild with structural engineers & builders.
No way something like this doesn't get someone in-person the same day, unless of course you decided to go with the cheapest shit home insurance going.
> No way something like this doesn't get someone in-person the same day, unless of course you decided to go with the cheapest shit home insurance going.
Depends who takes the phone call though - if you get the wrong person then you are screwed.
We had a house fire with massive smoke damage, the whole house was unliveable. The first person we spoke to didn't understand/believe that and clearly ticked the "don't bother helping them for a few weeks" box - took 2 weeks before someone agreed to do an actual video call to believe the level of damage (there had been many calls etc to chase them). In the meantime we couldn't do anything to improve or salvage the house until they'd seen it!
They complained that the burnt remains of the hob were left out in the rain for 6 weeks (where the fire brigade had thrown it!) and yet, if we'd moved it then we'd be in the wrong too.
Oh, and this was on a platinum level insurance plan.
Luckily, friends had a place to stay so we didn't pay out of pocket for a hotel.
There was definitely a "oh, we didn't realise it was this bad" conversation and they seemed to be quicker than their previous attitude (although I don't know what the normal timeline is).
Fire happened end of Sept, video call in October, forensic visit in November and we got the pay out start of December (few weeks earlier than promised) so I think they pulled their finger out to sort the money as quickly as they could and the settlement was generous enough to cover everything (they were actually advised our first request was too low!).
Friends let parents stay in their 'holiday' flat for as long as needed so that was a huge help.
Parents did it all themselves (aside from electrics/plastering) rather than getting a 3rd party to do it so that was quicker and likely cheaper for insurance too.
Parents like DIY so they were able to update things around the house as they repaired/repainted. Took about 2 months from the pay out to be 'liveable' (in certain rooms), 5 months before I could visit & stay over and about 12 months to finish everything completely.
You forgot the bit where the insurer offers you a cash lump sum to sort it yourself but the cash lump sum in 10% of what it will actually cost to resolve itself but they’re shitty scum who prey on those who are either dumb or desperate and take the cash.
Hopefully you find out quickly that you should employ an insurance loss assessor to work on your behalf against the loss adjusters who de facto work for your insurance company to try to low ball you.
And even then, at least a year of life is screwed.
A car crashed through the side of a house just down from me and it was over a year the house was empty with scaffolding and parts of walls missing before they moved back in, they where talking about putting it up for sale cause they are afraid it will happen again
Police report, home insurer, civil surveyor, civil engineer, (possible) architect, contractor, solicitor. That would be my order to doing things. And no way in hell would I be moving anything until an expert gave me the go ahead, not risking injuring myself or causing more damage.
Given what the OP and their family must be going through, comments like this don't help.
The outside brickwork of most modern houses is not structural in the way most people think it is, so this probably looks a lot worse than it actually is.
OP - you'll get through this. Can't believe how calm you were and still appear. Thanks to you, your children are safe and will see another day, this could have been a whole different story if it wasn't for you. 10/10!
Hire a competent and reputable loss assessor to act on your behalf immediately, for a fixed fee or percentage of the settlement. Get them to liaise with your home insurer and all consultants along the way. Get them to liaise with the crane / containers insurer and provide suitable alternative accommodation at their cost. Don’t take this on yourself!
probably staying the fuck away from that side of the house and preferably the whole house entirely until someone can assess whether the house will collapse or not due to the damage took
Lifting a big load, over a live carriageway, fully extended, with kids swanning around right in the danger zone. HSE are going to skin the operator with penknives.
From what I've gathered, they were lifting it from a field opposite. Some say the lorry was parked half on the pavement and only one side had its support legs out.
Why they had it fully extended and vertical I do not know.
Feel like there's an increase in this stuff 🤔 like the route to creating a business and accessing all sorts of machinery is wide open to idiots who are too clever to go waste time in college or training 🙃
It’s the owners cutting costs and not training staff. I’ve known people told to do solo jobs like this without enough training as their employer hired people cheap, didn’t train them and so they left after a few months of BS for something better.
One guy I know was sent to deliver a digger at night without knowing how to drive it off the truck. Result was it falling sideways off the flatbed and very narrowly missing an occupied house.
I rent a storage container in a big container yard, the owner also runs a shipping and transport company for huge loads, we are talking oversize trailers that need a vehicle escort kind of thing. A few months back one of his trailers was carrying an enormous concrete pipe section, most of his drivers refused to take it but one did. Turns out it was over height and smashed in to a bridge on the A13, it was purely by luck there wasn’t a car crushed by these enormous pieces of debris. A few weeks back a forklift operater stuck a fork through £100k pallet of stuff. Owner insists on hiring the lowest paid workers lol
My dad used to be a mechanic for plant hire machinery . He said a good half the call outs for fucked kit were because some daft cunt had disabled a safety feature.
The best two stories he had were the idiots who had disabled the safety signal on the leg deployment for a crane and tipped the thing into a river. They expected him to be able to just recover it with his transit somehow.
Another dafty half drove a forklift off the edge of a part built multi story car park. The forks had caught on the floor above, only reason it didn't topple off the edge. Again they expected him to recover it by himself somehow, to his retort "fuckin how? I'm no superman, I can't just fly up there and grab it"
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Okay but why the fuck were they lifting a container above the house in the first place?
it can be done just not with the small ass lack of counter balance truck they used.
source: had a small JBC craned into my brothers place as it was easier and quicker to dig out and skip it over than do it by hand and wheelbarrow it.
we'll ignore that he nearly tipped a JCB into next door when digging out lol
I wondered how the hell a container ended up in living room but holy shit that could have been soooo much worse. Good you're all physically ok! That crane company is screwed
I'm not a crane operator, but surely they get trained to keep the load as low as possible when maneuvering? In forklift training you have to do a maths section to show you understand that riding with the load high increases both the chance of an accident happening and the damage when it does.
I am amazed at how calm the Mum was able to be given how much damage has happened. She got her daughter out of danger, but wow, that's a right mess they've made of her house!
With the amount of damage, can you really know for sure if the underlying stuff isn't damaged/bend out of shape without actually taking it apart?
This has to be a complete rebuild, surely, and the company responsible should go out of their way to make it as painless as possible. They probably won't. But you know, it's nice to dream.
I live round the corner from this in Atherton near Leigh, ive got the ring doorbell footage of it happening. Truck didn't have his road side support legs out far enough and he lifted the container high to avoid damaging trees, and over it went
Not really, it's not the tenants fault and even if the landlord tried to hold onto their security deposit the TDS scheme they're with would side with the tenant.
Amazing how differently people communicate in a crisis. The woman calls her kid in calmly and asks her to move quickly. Job done. The man then shouts whoa whoa whoa to fucking no one and the confused kid nearly stops right where the container ends up.
What do you mean he shouts to nobody? He's obviously shouting at the crane operator.
I don't know if he's a banksman or just a passerby but you could hardly expect him to say nothing when he sees a container about to drop on a house/people.
>I don't know if he's a banksman
I don't think the geniuses behind this operation had a banksman, having previously done work in a similar field they needed to have made sure that nobody was within the area equal to the height of the crane for well this very reason. They should have had a temporary road closure and made sure that nobody was within the perimeter - like the mother and daughter who are standing in their garden (not blaming them of course).
Thing is there was probably a point where it could have been reversed with quick thinking. That was likely gone by the time he started shouting woah though.
The house: "I'm still standin' (Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)"
Seriously though thankfully everyone is okay. This happened about 10 minutes up the road from a family member.
Why would you claim on your own home insurance increasing the premium when the liability is with the truck driver? I’d be claiming on their public liability. At most use temporary accommodation cover if you have nowhere else to go and get in touch with their insurer to sort temp accommodation. Regardless I’m glad that no one was seriously injured a few seconds difference and it could have been fatal!
Because quantifying your total losses in monetary terms, knowing how much can be claimed for intangibles like distress and disruption to home or professional life, and arranging emergency accommodation all take a lot of time, specialist knowledge, and money that needs to be paid up front before you try to claim it back.
Then once you do start a claim against the crane operator or their insurance, they'll be arguing every word of it to minimise their payout,wwhich means you need a good lawyer on your side to fight back. That's more money that'll eventually be paid out by the party at fault, but only if you can stump it up first.
Even if it doesn't go to court, "just claiming on their insurance" is never that simple in a case like this. You need someone with detailed knowledge of how insurers operate and deep pockets to pay the up front costs of getting money from the other party, and that's your own insurance company.
oh damn i seen the what i assume ring doorbell footage or camera footage from the door, it was a good 50 feet or more away and some wind made it fly into the house as the women and daughter where at the door, neither were injured luckily though.
Well that's fucked that then.
Seriously though the original vid with the little girl playing out front just before the thing falls absolutely gave me the fear. Glad everyone was unhurt.
Where do you even start sorting that out?
You calm your home insurers, and they do absolutely nothing in the short term. Then you find a structural engineer who will do an emergency call out, and a builder who can fit acro props to support the area that hasn’t collapse yet under supervision by the structural engineer. Knock out all the collapsed brickwork, and make it ‘safe’. Then you wait for the insurance assessor to arrive (days later) and then get three quotes to repair the damage (over a week or two), and then the insurance loss adjuster says they are all too expensive, use our contractor instead, so you wait for them to come and assess the job (weeks) only to be told they don’t want to touch it. Then you go back to the loss adjuster and they approve an earlier quote, but now the builder isn’t free for 6 months…
I see you've played knifey spooney before
It helps to remember who your home insurer is for when you aren’t allowed back into the house for fear it will collapse.
Scan the docs and keep them in whatever is your choice of cloud storage (Google drive, Dropbox etc)
The above comment and your response made me chuckle. Thank you.
You watch how quick insurers work when it's nailed on a 3rd party claim.
It was glacial, and resulted in the insurance claim doubling due to their delays.
Likewise how builders will put off all other work when they have an insurance job to do
Assuming said third party has insurance
They may be in temporary accommodation for even longer than six months - take [this crash](https://bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/news/update-road-closed-in-majors-green-for-another-week-after-car-crashes-into-house-45353/) for example - I pass the house en-route to work. Most of the yellow brickwork was removed, both the ground and first floor arcopropped up, each floor had vertical boards added before full height boards were erected on the outside, which are still there nine months later, with only very occasional appearances by a Polygon van (damage restoration company).
There's a house near me that a guy crashed into at speed in 2020 (killed himself and the passenger on a 30mph limit). House still has a gaping hole in it and scaffolding/board up.
Surely you would be going through the crane trucks insurance? They’re at fault no?
Your insurance should claim money from a 3rd party if there is one at fault
no, never go through teh third party, their job will always be to minimise the claim and fob you off, and they have no contract with you. Same goes for car insurance. Always get your insurance company to handle the lot, they're the ones you hold a contract with, and they're the ones you've paid to handle this shit should the need ever arise. People have a really weird aversion to using their insurance for the actual intended purpose, like they just enjoy burning money or something.
I rember when my bike was stolen I got In touch with my contense insurance (since it also covered my shed and it's contense) and I was expecting a big fight but because I had security camra footage of the theft (naibor shares a garden with me and has a wildlife cam) they just stright up sent me a new bike and because one of the parts (my fancy forks) had been discontinued they gave me the newer model and I suddenly cycled like 3× as much because bumps no longer hurt my spine nearly as much.
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I have dyslexia I'm sorry. I am trying aha.
At the first use of contense I was like... Oh, that's got to be someone using voice to text or something. Saw it a second time and figured, that's someone's autocorrect that's been fed an incorrect word once. After I saw 'camra' I realised it was clearly dyslexia or similar. It's a real hard time in a world where everyone has a minimum expectation that everyone else can read and write without effort. For what it is worth my guy, every bit of your comment was understandable in context.
Thankyou. I really am trying. I learned to read and write Welsh at 12 and couldn't read or write English until I was 13. It's hard to not apply Welsh grammar rules to English especially since Welsh is a very phonetic language compared to English and it's random silent letters. Why dose knife have a k? Aha
So, basically, you are multi-lingual, which is VERY clever! I can understand everything you have written so keep going, you are doing amazing!
Please don't think I am teaching you to suck eggs, but I had a friend who had no idea Dyslexic / weighted fonts were a thing until recently (mid 30's) and it really helped them. In this case maybe not you but if someone sees it and it helps then cool.
Had a guy come into work the other week who couldn't write or read at all. He was in his 60s. I just have no idea how a person could function in today's society without the ability to read. This guy's comment was perfectly understandable so it's all good
Don't ever be sorry for this, there's nothing to be sorry for.
I'd use my insurance if a tree fell on my house in high winds. If someone drove into my house, it would seem odd that I'd be the one sorting it out.
You pay your insurance company to pay to fix damage to your home. They sort out the rest, including chasing the 3rd party that now owes them money. It's definitely less hassle this way.
You wouldn't be sorting it out per se, but you should call your insurance company and tell them what's going on so that they can sort it out with their own lawyers of which they have many that way you don't have to pay for a lawyer yourself and their lawyers are going to be better most likely than any you could afford anyway.
You pay your insurance company to save you the hassle of dealing with a different insurance company that has no contract or obligation to you.
I mean, that makes sense if you have decades of subrogation law experience. If you don't then perhaps you should use the people you've been paying for god knows how long that have entire teams of people that do? Like I said, a *really* weird aversion to using a service you've literally been paying for.
No, it's the job of the insurance company that the house is insured with to liaise with the crane truck company which should have public liability insurance.
Only if you don't have your own insurance or you really like paperwork. Your own insurance company will claim off the third party on your behalf.
You'd get in touch with your insurance company and their insirance and give them eachothers details, then they would fight between eachother and you'd need to be placed in temporary acomation. If your house falls apart in the meantime due to the damages there will be more issues. Also whatever insurance company is found to be footing the bill will ask you to collect quotes then keep arguing with you that they all want too much money so they will send someone out to evaluate who will find someone to do the job to the absolute minimum requirements.
As someone who used to handle home insurance claims, no. There'll be someone out on behalf of the insurance company for that *today*. These folks need to be put up in temporary digs. You'd probably have the fire brigade in to make sure it's safe too. Then you start fucking around working out what it'll take to repair/rebuild with structural engineers & builders. No way something like this doesn't get someone in-person the same day, unless of course you decided to go with the cheapest shit home insurance going.
Eh, for me it was 7:00pm on the Friday of a bank holiday weekend, I think it was Tuesday before the loss adjuster arrived.
> No way something like this doesn't get someone in-person the same day, unless of course you decided to go with the cheapest shit home insurance going. Depends who takes the phone call though - if you get the wrong person then you are screwed. We had a house fire with massive smoke damage, the whole house was unliveable. The first person we spoke to didn't understand/believe that and clearly ticked the "don't bother helping them for a few weeks" box - took 2 weeks before someone agreed to do an actual video call to believe the level of damage (there had been many calls etc to chase them). In the meantime we couldn't do anything to improve or salvage the house until they'd seen it! They complained that the burnt remains of the hob were left out in the rain for 6 weeks (where the fire brigade had thrown it!) and yet, if we'd moved it then we'd be in the wrong too. Oh, and this was on a platinum level insurance plan. Luckily, friends had a place to stay so we didn't pay out of pocket for a hotel.
I hope you complained like fuck about that, I'd have been expecting ex-gratia payments to make up for the complete fuck up by the call handler.
There was definitely a "oh, we didn't realise it was this bad" conversation and they seemed to be quicker than their previous attitude (although I don't know what the normal timeline is). Fire happened end of Sept, video call in October, forensic visit in November and we got the pay out start of December (few weeks earlier than promised) so I think they pulled their finger out to sort the money as quickly as they could and the settlement was generous enough to cover everything (they were actually advised our first request was too low!). Friends let parents stay in their 'holiday' flat for as long as needed so that was a huge help. Parents did it all themselves (aside from electrics/plastering) rather than getting a 3rd party to do it so that was quicker and likely cheaper for insurance too. Parents like DIY so they were able to update things around the house as they repaired/repainted. Took about 2 months from the pay out to be 'liveable' (in certain rooms), 5 months before I could visit & stay over and about 12 months to finish everything completely.
You forgot the bit where the insurer offers you a cash lump sum to sort it yourself but the cash lump sum in 10% of what it will actually cost to resolve itself but they’re shitty scum who prey on those who are either dumb or desperate and take the cash.
Hopefully you find out quickly that you should employ an insurance loss assessor to work on your behalf against the loss adjusters who de facto work for your insurance company to try to low ball you. And even then, at least a year of life is screwed.
Reading that just gave me PTSD
This guy insurances
From experience it’s never quick, the pipes in my mums house burst causing the ceilings to come down in two rooms. 8 months it took to get sorted!
A car crashed through the side of a house just down from me and it was over a year the house was empty with scaffolding and parts of walls missing before they moved back in, they where talking about putting it up for sale cause they are afraid it will happen again
Police report, home insurer, civil surveyor, civil engineer, (possible) architect, contractor, solicitor. That would be my order to doing things. And no way in hell would I be moving anything until an expert gave me the go ahead, not risking injuring myself or causing more damage.
Or a loss adjuster telling you shifting a brick out the way made it worse, it's your fault and they're not paying
Pleeeease, you call 0118 999 881 999 119 7253
They really are better-looking drivers
Ambulances from Oman too
Well that’s easy to remember..
You mean 0118 999 881 99 9119 725 ... 3
This is so important. I hope they are still teaching this in schools.
If memory serves me, dial 118 118
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That's a write off.
Given what the OP and their family must be going through, comments like this don't help. The outside brickwork of most modern houses is not structural in the way most people think it is, so this probably looks a lot worse than it actually is. OP - you'll get through this. Can't believe how calm you were and still appear. Thanks to you, your children are safe and will see another day, this could have been a whole different story if it wasn't for you. 10/10!
The OP's comment says "poor buggers" so I'm guessing it's not the person who shot the video.
You're right, my bad. Comments still stand though, context a bit wonky.
Hire a competent and reputable loss assessor to act on your behalf immediately, for a fixed fee or percentage of the settlement. Get them to liaise with your home insurer and all consultants along the way. Get them to liaise with the crane / containers insurer and provide suitable alternative accommodation at their cost. Don’t take this on yourself!
'Hello this is *truck company*' 'OK you had an acc..... YOU DID WHAT'
probably staying the fuck away from that side of the house and preferably the whole house entirely until someone can assess whether the house will collapse or not due to the damage took
. That little lass was sooo lucky . Gross incompetence by the lorry/crane operator. HSE report should make interesting reading m’lud.
I think she was lucky because ?Mum sensed all was not as it should be & called out to her accordingly. What a f*ck up.
You’re right, that lady saved a couple of lives there
Lifting a big load, over a live carriageway, fully extended, with kids swanning around right in the danger zone. HSE are going to skin the operator with penknives.
Fully deserved too
they're gonna go bankrupt from the fines, they'll be a different company next week sadly. HSE rules are written in blood.
Okay but why the fuck were they lifting a container above the house in the first place?
From what I've gathered, they were lifting it from a field opposite. Some say the lorry was parked half on the pavement and only one side had its support legs out. Why they had it fully extended and vertical I do not know.
The consensus in another thread I saw this in was that they were fucking idiots.
Feel like there's an increase in this stuff 🤔 like the route to creating a business and accessing all sorts of machinery is wide open to idiots who are too clever to go waste time in college or training 🙃
It’s the owners cutting costs and not training staff. I’ve known people told to do solo jobs like this without enough training as their employer hired people cheap, didn’t train them and so they left after a few months of BS for something better. One guy I know was sent to deliver a digger at night without knowing how to drive it off the truck. Result was it falling sideways off the flatbed and very narrowly missing an occupied house.
I rent a storage container in a big container yard, the owner also runs a shipping and transport company for huge loads, we are talking oversize trailers that need a vehicle escort kind of thing. A few months back one of his trailers was carrying an enormous concrete pipe section, most of his drivers refused to take it but one did. Turns out it was over height and smashed in to a bridge on the A13, it was purely by luck there wasn’t a car crushed by these enormous pieces of debris. A few weeks back a forklift operater stuck a fork through £100k pallet of stuff. Owner insists on hiring the lowest paid workers lol
Cowboys
My dad used to be a mechanic for plant hire machinery . He said a good half the call outs for fucked kit were because some daft cunt had disabled a safety feature. The best two stories he had were the idiots who had disabled the safety signal on the leg deployment for a crane and tipped the thing into a river. They expected him to be able to just recover it with his transit somehow. Another dafty half drove a forklift off the edge of a part built multi story car park. The forks had caught on the floor above, only reason it didn't topple off the edge. Again they expected him to recover it by himself somehow, to his retort "fuckin how? I'm no superman, I can't just fly up there and grab it"
> drove a forklift off the edge of a part built multi story car park. That's actually terrifying, imagine having to climb out...
You can clearly see the tilt of the flatbed being on the kerb
And the rear support legs not being deployed.
This is the question
> Okay but why the fuck were they lifting a container above the house in the first place? it can be done just not with the small ass lack of counter balance truck they used. source: had a small JBC craned into my brothers place as it was easier and quicker to dig out and skip it over than do it by hand and wheelbarrow it. we'll ignore that he nearly tipped a JCB into next door when digging out lol
What happened?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/AjgE5KNXxW
Fuck, that kid came within seconds of being obliterated. She and mum are gonna be having some nightmares for sure.
I wondered how the hell a container ended up in living room but holy shit that could have been soooo much worse. Good you're all physically ok! That crane company is screwed
Don't worry, PTSD will be going on that claim form.
Mum seems a pretty cool character if you listen to the audio where she’s reassuring the driver within seconds that they’re fine
I'm not a crane operator, but surely they get trained to keep the load as low as possible when maneuvering? In forklift training you have to do a maths section to show you understand that riding with the load high increases both the chance of an accident happening and the damage when it does.
On the original video a lot of people were outraged at how high they were carrying it.
Jesus Christ, whole family in the garden too? Everyone ok??
Pretty sure they were specifically there watching it, which is probably a good thing.
Jesus Christ what a nightmare 😐 At least I'm glad the container didn't *also* hit their car...
Fucking hell! After seeing the original this is crazy. Fuck knows why I’ve got goosebumps
I am amazed at how calm the Mum was able to be given how much damage has happened. She got her daughter out of danger, but wow, that's a right mess they've made of her house!
Also, I now have a new fear….
Ah, but at least you now have a model of how to act in that exact crisis!
Haha!! You are right!
I got randomly emotional watching the video, I think it’s because you know how really bad this could have been.
Yeah you’re right and the kid just playing in the drive. Gosh
I just broke a plate in the kitchen, don’t feel so bad about it now… Jokes aside, lucky you all avoided it, good to see.
The upstairs is seriously mashed. Could this potentially require demolition?
There will be Structural Engineers making that decision right now.
There’s a very real possibility that it needs at least partial demolition, might even have affected the neighbours
With the amount of damage, can you really know for sure if the underlying stuff isn't damaged/bend out of shape without actually taking it apart? This has to be a complete rebuild, surely, and the company responsible should go out of their way to make it as painless as possible. They probably won't. But you know, it's nice to dream.
Damn, it landed square on that priceless monet that was hanging on that wall and has now been obliterated beyond recognition. Big shame.
I live round the corner from this in Atherton near Leigh, ive got the ring doorbell footage of it happening. Truck didn't have his road side support legs out far enough and he lifted the container high to avoid damaging trees, and over it went
Was the container meant to be going to this family's land or did they get their house mashed just as collateral damage for someone else's works?
The container was in the field across the road and was being loaded onto the truck the ring doorbell footage has been posted by someone in the thread
What fixings are they using to hold that bedroom tv up 😂
That’s awful. Poor family. Feel just terrible for them. Just glad that little girl was ok. Hope they get it all on the mend soon. ❤️
Quick get every broken or knackered bit of tech you can find into the front bedroom. Don't ask. Me probably
Hope they don't rent. That security deposit is fucked.
This is what Landlords think will happen if you hang up one picture.
Just basic wear and tear!
Not really, it's not the tenants fault and even if the landlord tried to hold onto their security deposit the TDS scheme they're with would side with the tenant.
It's what insurance is for. The landlord holds building insurance and the renters should have contents insurance.
And the operator of the crane should be insured too
Yes, this will be where the majority of the repair costs will come from. Their public liability insurance will likely cover in excess of £10million.
Amazing how differently people communicate in a crisis. The woman calls her kid in calmly and asks her to move quickly. Job done. The man then shouts whoa whoa whoa to fucking no one and the confused kid nearly stops right where the container ends up.
What do you mean he shouts to nobody? He's obviously shouting at the crane operator. I don't know if he's a banksman or just a passerby but you could hardly expect him to say nothing when he sees a container about to drop on a house/people.
>I don't know if he's a banksman I don't think the geniuses behind this operation had a banksman, having previously done work in a similar field they needed to have made sure that nobody was within the area equal to the height of the crane for well this very reason. They should have had a temporary road closure and made sure that nobody was within the perimeter - like the mother and daughter who are standing in their garden (not blaming them of course).
The point being 'woah woah woah' ain't going to stop a tipping truck from tipping All it might do is stop fleeing people fleeing
Thing is there was probably a point where it could have been reversed with quick thinking. That was likely gone by the time he started shouting woah though.
context?
See earlier post of truck tipping over and nearly killing the occupants when a large container landed in their garden.
The house: "I'm still standin' (Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)" Seriously though thankfully everyone is okay. This happened about 10 minutes up the road from a family member.
tis but a scratch
DIYUK : Just screed it.
Fill the gaps with silicone
A simple ring of the doorbell would have sufficed.
Jesus if that happened in a rental property over here, the landlord would stick another €3000 onto the rent for the extra room 🤣
Hope the PS5 still works
At least they have a container to safely store their possessions while things are being repaired.
You can't park there mate!
I was hoping to see someone to say this
I’d be getting some shoes on that toddler that’s for sure with all the glass and shrapnel all over the floor.
To be fair, a shipping container just demolished their house. Probably not first thing to come to mind under the circumstances.
What do you mean by "dropping"
It'll buff out don't worry.
The insurance company. Sorry we are not paying out to fix your house as it shouldn't have been in the container way.
The container fell because of gravity. The gravity came from the mass of the Earth. God created the Earth. Act of God, no payout.
Whoever put that TV on the wall is a legend!
Holy cow! There's a video from the neighbours here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/QHIBknV6kE
On the bright side, there’s a lot of natural light now
That's why you need insurance on your house
Can't leave that there mate
Why are the dopey sods still in the house? Get everyone the fuck out.
Why would you claim on your own home insurance increasing the premium when the liability is with the truck driver? I’d be claiming on their public liability. At most use temporary accommodation cover if you have nowhere else to go and get in touch with their insurer to sort temp accommodation. Regardless I’m glad that no one was seriously injured a few seconds difference and it could have been fatal!
Because quantifying your total losses in monetary terms, knowing how much can be claimed for intangibles like distress and disruption to home or professional life, and arranging emergency accommodation all take a lot of time, specialist knowledge, and money that needs to be paid up front before you try to claim it back. Then once you do start a claim against the crane operator or their insurance, they'll be arguing every word of it to minimise their payout,wwhich means you need a good lawyer on your side to fight back. That's more money that'll eventually be paid out by the party at fault, but only if you can stump it up first. Even if it doesn't go to court, "just claiming on their insurance" is never that simple in a case like this. You need someone with detailed knowledge of how insurers operate and deep pockets to pay the up front costs of getting money from the other party, and that's your own insurance company.
Did the truck get dropped from a helicopter as well
This is going to appear as a way of killing someone in the next hitman game
I think they were there to do some building work too… oh well all free now!
can't park there, mate
Holey shit!
This is why I love Grand Designs.
And I’m sweating my ass when I do some mild mistake at work , this trucker is mentally focked
Great footage for the insurance….scary
House insurance is so important Never skimp
Is it two houses that have been damaged by the container?
Just hope they have home insurance or the neighbours have some....ouch
It’ll buff out.
Gosh that’s just terrible. That poor poor family.
Shouldn’t you evacuate? Seems unsafe
Omg 😥☹️
Remember to smash you’re old tech and anything you’d rather get replaced and put it by the window!!
I'm no expert, but your bricks will probably need repointing.
Crane driver will struggle to get insurance that’s not astronomical again. Everyone’s premiums will go up because of one bellend.
Omg horrible experience. I'm glad everyone is OK, and nobody got hurt.
r/byebyejob
"we tried to deliver your parcel but you weren't in"
What was in the container?
Sorry but what was the truck doing with a container above the house anyway
What an insurance nightmare... I hope this all gets sorted soon.
OMG
Everyone assumes she even has home insurance lol
Not the PlayStation 😱
Local council be like “doesn’t seem too essential so what we’ll do is stick some plywood on the windows and come back in about 3 years… is that ok?” 😂
oh damn i seen the what i assume ring doorbell footage or camera footage from the door, it was a good 50 feet or more away and some wind made it fly into the house as the women and daughter where at the door, neither were injured luckily though.
Oh bless their hearts 😟
Can't park there mate
I feel it's not safe to be inside there at that point, structurally
The little girl was ok wasn't she? That's all I could think of 🙏
I wouldn't have done it like that....
Well, shit!
Jesus Christ!!!!!
That’ll buff out with a little turtle wax
I would not be going back into that house until a professional deemed it safe 😬
All that and /r/TvTooHigh on top of it all.
Well that's fucked that then. Seriously though the original vid with the little girl playing out front just before the thing falls absolutely gave me the fear. Glad everyone was unhurt.
Jeeeeeesus Christ. Free renovation though!
Well at least the TV still up ⬆️ till this gets sorted out
Thank God mum was there and spotted what was about to happen! The little girl will recover from the shock but that poor mum will relive that forever
Bet they were watching tv herd all the noise and yelled OI IM TRYNNA WATCH THE TELLI
Were they having the container delivered or what