What is the worst damage that has been caused to your house? (roof shingles, washer)
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Raccoon tried to get into the house by way of the roof....tore or some shingles and pulled up some of the plywood decking, and pulled out some insulation....enough damage that the rafters are actually exposed. Had it not been for the insulation sitting up in the gutter I might not have noticed for who knows how long.
This happened 3 weeks ago, we have a temp repair and are still awaiting roofers to come out do the final repair
My first house burned down when I was 28. The fire started in the attic due to an electrical issue. Total loss.
I was home and smelled smoke before the smoke detectors went off.
Escaped with the baby and the dogs and lost everything else.
That has always been a fear of mine. It seems very few houses with attic fires are salvageable due to the difficulty in putting the fire out. A couple of months ago a guy down the street was mowing his grass, when he was done he parked the mower behind the house and went inside. Well, a few minutes later he saw smoke, the mower had caught fire and it went right up into the roof overhang and into the attic, the house was a total loss.
> This used to be my grandparents house, and sometime back in the late 70's my grandfather came home after having a bit too much to drink, and ran a Pinto right into the house crushing the brickwork right next to the garage door. It was fixed but you'll always be able to tell something happened since the brick doesn't exactly match the rest of the house.
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> Hurricane Ivan in 2004. A big 10" diameter branch broke from a pecan tree and crashed into the roof over the garage. It fell about 80' before hitting the house, and it broke two trusses.
Two large oak tree branches invaded the upstairs hallway during a severe ice storm. The ice storm coincided with the much-derided "stock up on duct tape and plastic" national security scare, and I had bought some, thinking "Yeah, right" to myself.
Both came in very handy as emergency indoor repairs - they kept falling ice and small debris from further invading my house, once a volunteer (a stranger with a chain saw. Yes, I know, but he was sent by the almost overwhelmed police department) cut and removed the interior ends of the branches. The exterior remainder of the fallen branches had to be removed from my roof by a tree company using a cherry-picker, a day or so later. After that, the house was covered with a huge blue tarp until the ice quit falling, started melting, power was restored (eight days later, in our case), and repairs could begin. The interior hallway required patching and re-plastering, while the exterior damage was also significant - thankfully, the limbs fell between the rafters or it would have been far more complicated.
We've also had four feet of cold, dirty water backed up in the basement when the sewers overflowed during an extreme downpour. Not fun at all...but that involved more personal property damage than damage to the house itself.
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