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What is the most damage that has been caused to your home?

39 replies

Pointlessfact · 27/02/2018 20:29

Not massively but I remember dropping a lucozade and staining the carpet
Also playing the Nintendo WIi managed to break the TV.

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SadMalignantTwat · 27/02/2018 20:34

My ex managed to put a nail through a water pipe upstairs; we’d not lived there long, couldn’t turn the water off and ended up having to break a floor board in two to get to the pipe, wrapping stuff round it and calling an emergency plumber while swearing without taking a breath. The ceiling downstairs was never the same.

Twocatsonebaby · 27/02/2018 20:37

Not huge either but I'd had beautiful beige carpet put down and my ex dp fucking threw tomato soup all over it.
Needless to say I could've killed him and I made him March to get me some carpet cleaner and pay for it.
I'm still getting it out almost a year later

Llanali · 27/02/2018 20:38

Thé wind blew four stables, a tractor barn and a hay barn away on Boxing Day. Oh, and the roof leaked on the chimney breast.

Does that count?
Otherwise, a dog smashed a bottle of vintage port on a cream carpet. Bastard.

Dragonfree · 27/02/2018 20:42

This isn't the most damage, but it was the moat recent fail....

Fireinthegrate · 27/02/2018 20:45

Pipes leaking from upstairs bathroom came through the ceiling. This has happened 3 times since being in this house 13 years. Each leak in a different place so not the same one failing over again!

Summerisdone · 27/02/2018 21:14

My toddler broke my TV last year by throwing a tub of play dough at it Angry

So far that’s the worse that’s happened in my home, I don’t know how DM coped with me and my 4 sisters though when we were younger; nearly every curtain pole would come down bringing bits of walll with it as we fucked about hiding behind curtains, vases and ornaments were constantly being broken, every single bed we had would get broken within 12 months or less, dishwasher door and garage door got ripped off their hinges within one week by the same sister (she was an angry teenager and would slam about Confused).
I think the worse though was when my sister was chasing me through the house so I ran through patio doors from living room and back in though kitchen door, where I then closed it and put the chain on, this didn’t stop sister, she just slammed into the door and ripped the chain off and took half the wall with it...god how did my DM not actually kill us Hmm

Aprilmightmemynewname · 27/02/2018 21:17

While I was at work my dh spent hours fitting some lovely new lino, unfortunately our dog didn't think much of it. ...

What is the most damage that has been caused to your home?
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Stickerrocks · 27/02/2018 21:29

Builders were renovating my Nan's cottage after she passed away. A scaffolding pole holding up the ceiling disappeared. The builders knocked a hole in the kitchen floor and discovered that there were 6 inches of concrete between them and a 30 foot mine shaft. They ran.

halfwitpicker · 27/02/2018 21:32

Tree hit the side of the house.

Mydaddysgirl · 27/02/2018 21:34

A house fire caused by a Deloghi dehumidifier.

6 engines from 3 counties, fans left on i side for the best part of a week while we weren’t allowed to return.

The very well-known department store paid for all the making good, redecorating, replacement carpets etc etc as the examinations by the fire dept confirmed the auto shut-off failed.

Seren85 · 27/02/2018 21:35

Nothing too major but I had a cheap jar candle that exploded one evening. No fire but wax everywhere. I still find tiny bits now. As a child I dove onto an armchair causing it to smash into the fancy glass of the vestibule. I blamed the dog. It took my Mum awhile to let that one go since she was forever telling us not to dive on the furniture!

WorriedAndTired · 27/02/2018 21:38

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TheSnowFairy · 27/02/2018 21:41

BIL threw a dart and hit a water pipe on Christmas Day. Glad it wasn't my house!

Unevenbeard · 27/02/2018 21:45

Our last place had the most gorgeous wall-mounted fire left by the previous owners. DH accidentally nudged the corner of it with his knee and it fell off the wall and smashed into what seemed like a million pieces. It must have been holding on by a wing and a prayer Confused

possumgoddess · 27/02/2018 21:46

The cat knocked over a large tin of pink paint on the new blue carpet...... My husband smashed the oven door while trying to move it..... And finally...... The latest is that a 600kg silage bale landed in top of the conservatory basically writing it off

SeamstressfromTreacleMineRoad · 27/02/2018 21:47

Unknown slow leak in flashing on roof of large Edwardian house - water dripping in for years and gradually soaking plaster at top of stairs - until the day when what sounded like a bomb went off (luckily when I was alone in the kitchen) and I opened the kitchen door to see the entire stairs and hallway covered in very dirty plaster and a cloud of dust rolling towards me... Shock

Doradolittle · 27/02/2018 21:47

Drove my car into our front room bay window. Volvo was unscathed, bay window had to be rebuilt.

shakalaka · 27/02/2018 21:49

Leak in the bathroom resulted in water damage in 3 rooms total PITA. And the insurance company were total gits. Sorted in the end.

DarthArts · 27/02/2018 21:49

Once when a mains sewer that had not been properly maintained got backed up.

All the houses in the street (including mine) had our basements flooded - half basements with a window iyswim where the kitchen, utility, dining room and snug were located. Raw sewage poured into the house through outlets to the washing machine, dishwasher. We were in at the time and it took 20 mins to go from a puddle of water to the top of the kitchen units. Saved what we could. Fire service had to pump it out and I couldn't even make them a cup of tea for their efforts:-(.

Caused over £30k of damage (not including rental of another house whilst repairs were done). Was out of the house whilst it was dried out, stripped back, all re-wired, plastered, decorated, new kitchen fitted, flooring and furniture - took 9 months (4 simply to dry the house out and strip away the contamination of the raw sewage).

Always feel so sorry for people when flooding is in the news. It's horrific and can't be fixed swiftly as you need a lot of time for everything to dry.

Frogthefrog · 27/02/2018 21:50

Not mine but the day my Dad moved into his new house, I went to visit him. I sat on the sofa and my phone slid out of my pocket and down the side of the cushion. As I went to retrieve it I realised to my horror that it had disappeared into the base of the sofa! My Dad ended up turning the sofa on its side and slicing through the fabric in the bottom to retrieve my phone Blush

Piratesue · 27/02/2018 21:54

Lost pretty much everything in a house fire. Was out of my house got 9 months. Yeah that was shit

mineofuselessinformation · 27/02/2018 21:56

Subsidence.
The entire ground floor of the house had to be dug out.
The wall in the garage had a horizontal crack and you could swing the wall backwards and forwards. (We also sat at our dining table one night, heard a crack and the entire wall spilt across.)
Seeing your former home (it took six months for repairs) with all of the walls propped up, and dirt splattered up them from piling was not fun.

UserSnoozer · 27/02/2018 22:01

How do you drive into your own house... 🤔