Contractor Mistakenly Levels Pittsburgh Home

[packsaddle]

PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh man's home has been leveled after city officials say a contractor mistakenly demolished it along with a neighboring house.

Homeowner Andre Hall says he'd already replaced the windows and done other work on the long-vacant house in the city's West End neighborhood. But when he arrived to do more work Monday a backhoe was sitting on top of the rubble of his home.

The home had been condemned but the city had issued an order halting demolition after Hall bought it in November. The head of the city's Bureau of Building Inspection says the house next door was supposed to be taken down but the contractor demolished Hall's home as well.

The city solicitor's office says it's reviewing the matter. A message left for the contractor was not immediately returned Wednesday.

source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/05/contractor-mistakenly-levels-pittsburgh-home/?test=latestnews

 

[brudgers]

Cite him for not having a demolition permit.

 

[jpranch]

S***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mac]

Happens more often than you might think!

 

[texasbo]

If homeowner Andre Hall was smart, he did a whole lot more than "replace windows and some other work".

 

[TimNY]

The marble bathrooms and gold-plated faucets were really nice. Not to mention the solid walnut floors.

 

[fatboy]

And the Cherry cabinet kitchen and bath vanities.........

oops!

Reminds me of a few years back, one of the inspectors here was burning his pasture grass and it went out of control and took out a neighbors little garden shed. Turned into a 24 X 40 shop by the time it was all said and done.

 

[FredK]

Cite him for not having a demolition permit.

Now that's funny. Think we would do that also.

 

[FyrBldgGuy]

Back a few years ago I was a fire chief in the hills of California. We got an invite from CalFire to participate in a live training burn. They had approval to burn down a house from the owner. Our department could not attend. After the training burn, the story goes like this:

The CalFire Captain told the Battalion Chief the fire training excercise had been a success. They burned the house but weren't sure if they should burn the detached garage. The Battalion Cheif said "What Garage?" Apparently, the didn't understand the addressess on the mail boxes and burned the house across the street. OOPs. The Captain - I mean Fire Fighter is still paying for the house.

 

[packsaddle]

It's Pittsburgh, so it was probably an improvement.

Plus, it scared away the drug dealer next door.

If only they would finish the whole city.........and then start over in Detroit.

 

[Jobsaver]

Apparently, the didn't understand the addressess on the mail boxes and burned the house across the street.

The same thing happened in my hometown in south Arkansas when I was about twelve. The fire department burned down someone else's home.

 

[peach]

oops..

had a disgruntled husband in a divorce pull a demolition permit once.. before the public record showed his ex-wife got the house.. oops..

 

[FM William Burns]

Peach...was that back in your days in South Florida?

I recall the front page of Palm Beach Post years ago showing a picture of a guy driving a front end loader through the house with title "Take half of this!".

 

[peach]

yes... but not exactly South Florida.. central florida