Car crashes into house

[maltaron]

I had to wonder what the mortar mix is in modern building. A car crashes into the corner of a house in Lowestoft and the entire corner, which should be a strong point, just caved in. The underside of the bricks had no mortar left attached, so they were certainly not stuck together with the mortar, and the mortar that fell looks like powder.

 

[noseall]

The mortar is there to keep the bricks apart.

There are many brick walls, that when dismantled reveal that the mortar comes off easily. This does not mean though, that the wall is weak. It also makes a difference as to whether the bricks were laid wet or dry.

I don't know what you were expecting but have you any idea of the forces involved when something as heavy as a car is catapulted into a cavity wall at speed?

You weren't expecting it to bounce off with a 'v' shaped dent in it were you?

 

[noseall]

 

[WabbitPoo]

Looks like my wife's parking....

 

[noseall]

Fair play to the brickies, it looks as though they were laid (correctly) i.e. frog up.

 

[WabbitPoo]

car crashes into the corner of a house and the corner just caved in.

Those new Audis don't look very resilient either

 

[Newboy]

And if you think the audi was travelling, take a look at the impact point for this one a few years ago. The house in this case is set back about 35 feet from the road on the inside of a right hand bend


http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41086000/jpg/_41086775_carinhouse203.jpg

 

[catlad]

I heard a loud screech while I was walking to the shop followed by a loud bang a couple of seconds later, when I got round the corner a ford cortina was head on at T Junction into a railway wall made of engineering bricks. The car was finished it was at the end of a long strait about a mile long, not a scratch on the wall and I mean no discernible difference only a bit of paint of the car.