Tim Watts wrote:
On Sunday 27 January 2013 11:08 ARW wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Andy Bartlett wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote in message
o.uk...
Owain wrote:

On Jan 26, 7:29 pm, harry wrote:
Doesn't look enough snow to be significant there.

Metro says: People living in the street said snow had piled
onto a car port at the side of the house, which gave way and
brought the gable end of the council property down.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/26/family...ouse-caves-in-
under-heavy-snow-3367946/

which sounds more plausible as a cantilevered carport could
pull out a few bricks and the wall above would follow

Yes, I think being *that* cantilevered would do it!

http://goo.gl/maps/DIy4b



Next door has the same arrangement but it's massively braced ...

http://goo.gl/maps/pS92z

Next door had the same arrangement! The council have removed it.



By council, do you mean Building Control - or are these council
houses, in which case I wonder if the council actually had these
fitted rather than the occupiers? That would be very interesting...

South Yorkshire Housing not Barnsley Council (aka Berneslai Homes), my
mistake.

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Adam