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

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

My neighbour went batshit and drove her car through the side of my house. The insurance builders did such a bollocks job of the repair, it was condemned and we had to move into a hotel to have the fix fixed.

We had a house fire and two bedrooms and the living room were damaged either by fire or the water the fire brigade used to extinguish the fire.

Nowhere near as bad as some of these but dh fell through the bedroom ceiling after missing his footing while he was in the loft.

A pipe on the top floor broke sending water through that floor into the bedroom on the second floor which was the dc playroom at the time, the hall and bathroom, then downstairs into the dining room, living room and hall. The dining room wall looked as if we had installed a water feature!
When the insurance company checked the damage they discovered that the artex in the ceilings had asbestos and needed a specialist company to remove before they could be repaired.
That was a fun time with dc from 6months to 5yrs.

In our old family home, leak upstairs resulted in ceiling falling through in the kitchen right onto the dinner table, on Christmas Day

I hope your husband was ok hippy but I did at that. sounds like something from a comedy sketch!

Nothing bad for me so far. Think 2012 that bad storm blew all our fences down which was a pain as our neighbour is a moaner. Ds threw a toy so hard at a wall it made a hole! The look on his face he told me right away he knew he was losing significant console time!

We had a carpet for 10 months before we were able to have it laid. It was down two days when friends son tipped over a carton of orange juice and was too scared to tell anyone.

@DownstairsMixUp (great username, I love Mighty Boosh) I probably should have said he was fine, he landed on the bed but he did have some grazes and bruises.

I've had windows and doors smashed in, holes in walls, coffee table which was glass smashed as well, ds was at his worst then. He also went for a bath at 1 am in the morning, decided the plug was blocked and rammed a screw driver into the plug hole, rupturing the pipe and we had a huge leak.

But mines nothing compared to fire and flood :(

A rookie error, UserSnoozer! Plus it's an automatic car, so a fairly easy mistake to make, relatively speaking! The only tricky part was knowing whether to call house insurance or car insurance company!

When I was a child our house was struck by lightening - it hit the chimney and the boiler underneath exploded - basically destroyed the living room. I was about 4 yrs old, I remember my Dad gathering us all up (4 kids (one severely disabled) my Mum, and our German Shepherd) and taking us round to the next door neighbour in the middle of the night.

Then the fire fighters arrived - there wasn't much of a fire but they were checking all was safe, and then days and days of clearing up as everything was coated in a thick layer of soot.

When the dog had gastroenteritis...

We'd not long moved to our new build house (beige carpets, magnolia walls) and I decided to open the tester pot in the front room to choose a new colour. I pulled the rip strip but unfortunately with too much force and it pulled the whole lid off. I was showered in red paint but it also went on my carpet and sofa. We forever had a pink hue in the one corner!

A rat had got in under the house, chewed a huge hole in the floorboards, right through my NEW FUCKING CARPET and then set to all night munching on the pile of baby toys piled on her play mat at the other end of the room.

I cried.

We made the landlord get exterminators in that day (he owned the farm our house was on and hadn't been doing any pest control at all)

The rat died under the large hall floor and the smell was so bad that we had to completely seal that area of the house off for a week. I have never in my life smelled anything so bad, not even a Dundas Truck. (For those who don't know what one is, you don't wanna be stuck behind one with the "liquids" splashing out onto the road on a hot summers day. 🤢 Trust me.)