Leaning home sparks concerns of a collapse in Hamilton’s north end
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2024
- The City of Hamilton has closed part of a street in the north end and asked neighbours to leave their homes over concerns that a house under construction could collapse.
The building at 75 Ferrie St. East is currently leaning towards the house next door, sparking concerns of a potential collapse of the home that towers over its neighbours.
The building has been under construction for several months, but it wasn’t until Wednesday night that the city says an off-duty inspector noticed that something was wrong.
“Obviously there’s some significant deflection in the wall, some movement, some racking, movement of the first and second floors.” says Bob Nuntall, Hamilton’s Manager of Building Inspections.
“Racking really is a diagonal twist of walls and framing structures. so it was a bit of movement of the second floor that caused the main and second floors to start to lean.”
Out of an abundance of caution, next-door neighbours on either side were asked to find somewhere else to stay and neighbours say at least one of the homes has at least four rental units.
Ferrie Street has also been closed and blocked by metal fencing from John Street North to Catharine Street.
Neighbours say they only just found out about the issue when they spotted the fences.
“It would have been around eight or nine, maybe 10 o’clock. nobody said a word to us.” said one neighbour.
Construction crews remained on scene throughout the afternoon on Thursday, attempting to determine that the building was indeed stable.
It’s not yet clear what caused the building to shift and crews remained focused on ensuring that the building was safe to enter before a true inspection can begin.
The City issued building permits to address this exact issue back in August 2022. Documents show that the owner lives in Mississauga and expected construction to cost upwards of $1.9-million.
The City says it doesn’t know what will happen to the building once it is stabilized or whether it can be re-built or will need to be torn down.
“Before we can even consider any demolition or repairs to the existing building, we have to stabilize it.” said Nuttall.
Ferrie Street is expected to remain closed between John Street North and Catharine Street until further notice, with the City saying it hopes to reach a solution in the next few days despite having trouble getting in contact with the owner.
Who in their right mind would pay $1.9 million for that eyesore
Makes me wonder if there is money laundering or some other issue
😂🤣👍
1.9 million monopoly money
made perfect sense to me when it was revealed the owner lives in Mississauga...
you'd have to be out of your mind to build for $1.9.
You know the housing market is way out of control when someone is willing to pay $1.9M for a $hit looking house in the city of Hamilton.
Came here to say that...
In the north end, no less.
I was about to say, that looks sub $300k.
Welcome to Canada.. Where you pay more.. For less.. lol..
@@EliChristmanno way that is 1.9 mil. Is it a 2 bed?
So these people want to live inside a garbage truck? What a rediculous design.😂
Not your cup of tea or bowl of pot but if it was some famous hokey star you'd all be rushing over to shake his hand or whatever...so since wen do houses all have to match their neighbours? Guess what, family probably isn't 'from here anyways - you don't have to BBQ with them or attend their kids Xmas Concert next year - they've got enough problems already don't you think.. ...
@@marneeklintworth9300Wow. Nice wall of diatribe. Doesn't make it any less ugly 🤣
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Not ONCE did anyone say it had to match the other houses. They just said it was a HORRIBLE DESIGN. And I agree.
@@marneeklintworth9300 LOL you must be the person having it built.
@@cody39yrs How would you ever jump to the conclusion that I live in Ontario?
When an ugly thing like that in a run down neighbourhood costs nearly 2 million, something has gone wrong in the world. If you can’t get affordable housing on an old street like that where are you supposed to go?
My son, a civil engineer, took one look at this and fell over laughing. He said, whoever designed the house and whoever gave planning permission should be sacked for incompetence. Could be a case of someone letting their 12 year old son design the house on the kitchen table.
EXACTLY .. you can see right through the first floor, absolutely nothing preventing it from racking. It was build to rack.
Tofu Dreg / Chinese influenced?... 😂👍
That's an amazing amount of daylight to see through the first floor at this stage of construction.
yeah the ground floor is little more than 4 outside walls. you can see right through it.
Exactly.....what caused the racking....Maybe the lack of installing sheeting on the lower rear walls before moving upwards with the construction. One has to think that there are also many other structural members missing as well. Would be interesting to see the prints ont his one and how it was designed to prevent this overall.
How did planning and zoning allow that ugly thing to even be built there??
No side to side shear paneling on the first floor. Overloaded second story. It will cost another 1.9 mil to engineer and fix it.
It's obvious why the building is racking. Whoever designed this abomination forgot to include any structure to the front wall, just a big opening for a garage door. If you skip the sheathing on the front wall, it needs to be made up with an interior wall.
Correctamundo. Lack of shear. Gonna have to kick it off to the neighbors house.
0:42 an OFF DUTY INSPECTOR spotted this, seriously?, lucky he just happened to be driving past.
were all his inspections done after hours? or did he just cash the mailed cheques and write the approvals?
Hard to say from the footage, but the rear wall is not sheathed either. it looks like there might be an interior wall studded out. If that was intended to be an interior shear wall, they should have put on the shear panels *before* starting to build the second story.
@@andrewalexander9492 yes. I would guess a structure such as this would have to be engineered, signing off on the plans, connections, and sequence of assembly
Actually incorrect - you can form openings this large in a wall this big but you’d have to have steel portal frames forming the opening to provide adequate strength at the connections
Who engineered this jewel?? NO Shear on the first floor, ultra top-heavy. Good luck
Yeah, I'm guessing that the rear wall was intended to have a lot of glass/doors or other openings, hence why it was essentially open. It's not cleat to me what was intended to resist side to side racking in the finished building. If that was intended to be done by interior shear walls, they should have sheathed them *before* starting the second story.
More likely amateur construction workers than bad engineering.
That’s what happens when you try Building your house bigger than your neighbors 😂
This kind of shoddy building practices were common in Columbus, Ohio in the 1990s. Usually it was "slum landlords" who would be trying to cut corners on fixing up an old house hoping to rent it to students. The landlord would hire winos & drug addicts to do the work, and they would put up siding to hide the weakened walls, and other deteriorating areas. Luckily myself and my neighbors kept a close eye on them and reported it to our city's building code division. The workers would work on weekends when inspectors weren't on duty. A tell tale sign, would be excessive use of siding, quickly nailed up to hide caving-in foundations, rotted wood framing, and other poorly built construction. The neighbors called our local TV stations to keep the pressure up. We succeeded, we took photos of everything, and eventually a city attorney volunteered to take our concerns seriously. The slum landlord wasn't at all happy, and tried all sorts of illegal moves. ....One trick is, they quickly sell the building to a family member, even a juvenile or a baby, will work, to get the property ownership under a new name, which often means the complaints, are thrown out,...and new complaint reporting has to accumulate, to trigger inspections. We had about 5 neighbors, networking on this, and eventually the landlord "caved', and was forced to rebuild most of the building, up to code and correctly. We made sure the finished house, matched the style of the surrounding houses. All that scrutiny, meant the landlord's other properties, were in jeopardy of being closely examined, as well. Because this behavior is often, "just how they operated". Cutting corners, and gross malfeasance is their "modus operandi".
Your one of the reasons houses costs 1.9m to build - cant lift a hammer now without someone (usually an office worker with no clue) complaining about EVERYTHING
@@handymanr4729You have a right to your opinion. The shoddy work we witnessed unskilled & untrained home renovators, trying to (get away with), was beyond the pale. Using siding to hide poorly built & deteriorating old structures, will never be acceptable. imo
$1.9 million? I’m sure it’s a typo. $190,000 is more like it. I’d love a house just like that, provided it had wall-to-wall 3” deep purple shag throughout.
YOU MUST BE FROM 1969 TIME ...
ohhh sarcasm love it
Not typo. Not even sure you can buy the land for 169k.
Compare this beauty to the one that used to be there in Google Maps, July 22, 2022.
1.9 mill for a house smack dab in crack central too, what a steal!
Two million dollars for that tiny house and in that neighborhood? What's the catch?
They're all insane,
Until they showed the blueprints had assumed they had erected some sort of shell to stabilize the structure. Nope...just the ugliest house that has ever been conceived.
The blue print looked nothing like that like that 4th grade popsicle stick house.
Looks like they tried to build the top floor before the bottom floor was strong enough to hold the top floor.
That's exactly what happened. I've been a carpenter for 48 years now, and I can tell you that the first floor was in no condition to accept the second floor at this point, braced off or not. Even the scant amount of OSB sheathing that is on the front could have been applied "smarter" to allow for more structural integrity. I've seen stuff like this before....it never ceases to amaze me how many goons are out there building things they know nothing about.
They should of never gotten a permit to build a home that towers over the other this much in the 1st place. It's a bit of in eyesore in this location compared to the homes on either side of it.
It's actually a cool building just the inappropriate location!
the ground floor is little more than 4 outside walls. you can see right through it, if the inner walls had been built (as they should have been) then the building would have been fine.
what cretin was building this and why was there no inspections to pick up this obvious oversight?
0:42 an OFF DUTY INSPECTOR, seriously?, lucky he just happened to be driving past, were all his inspections done after hours? or did he just cash the mailed cheques and write the approvals?
My 7 year old built something like that with a cereal box.
🤣🙈🤣
And I bet it was stronger....lol
sheer walls have left the chat😢
As a builder that is why we call a horrible design!
Genius builders
Jawa's need their desert transport back
It's obvious what made it shift poor craftsmanship or just not knowing how to build a house
The neighbors on both sides need to lawyer up and make the owner of the leaning house pay for not being able to live on their properties. Or maybe a lein on the leaning house for damages.
I see what you did there
It's not the owners fault it is the contractors building the house. I'm pretty sure the owner is pissed off about the situation I know I would be and I'm pretty sure you would be too.
"...having trouble reaching the owner." 😅
The crews working on this site everyday either didn't notice or didn't care. Either way this should be the last thing they all work on.
MORE LIKELY ILLEGALE IMMIGRANTS WHO ONLY KNOW HOW TO BUILD MUD STACK
Let's build a house without a level. Plum bob ? What's that ? lol 🤣
@@Wildstar40 MORE LIKE WITH WITH DEEP FOUNDATION ALSO ... USING ILLEGALE IMMIGRANTS DO NOT HELP
The crew is most likely not experienced in building homes in Canada. They took several .Ontario just to get to that point.
2M for a house that is realistically worth 250k at most? You know the housing market is...
There is no way this is a 1.9 million dollar property in Hamilton, just look at the houses beside it. But if insurance reimburses this monstrosity. well, then he played the system. Don't be surprised if it catches fire
$1.9 million for a house looking like that and in that area? 😮 that's crazy
No way does construction cost 1.9 million. They are probably including the land value or they have ultra expensive finishes. The land would be about $500 000. There is no sense in making the house that expensive in that neighbourhood.
Looks like a poor investment. I was always told it's better to have a modest home in a high-end neighborhood than a high-end home in a modest neighborhood. Those other homes are just going to bring down the value of his home before it even gets built (IF it ever gets built - lol).
@@rhondaflesher8313 You are right. I suspecting the media got the number wrong.
When your designer and engineer are tripping on Majic mushrooms, this is what you get.
That’s no 1.9Mil construction either.
More like 19K at best for the materials.
Turn the blueprints over...
Surprised the builders wouldn't question the plans with 'so much' second and third floor built upon such a small ground floor.
Inexperienced builder and their carpenter, most likely their first venture into building a house out of wood
$1.9 MILLION for that POS??? It's literally particle board. It's obvious that the second story is TOO HEAVY for the first floor. You cannot remedy that. The design itself is flawed. TAKE IT DOWN!!!!
I'm sure the neighbours will be happy when that ugly box gets torn down, blessing in disguise right there.
Looks top heavy .
my first thought, WAY to narrow
Over one million dollars for a pez dispenser?
So why would any city agency issue a permit to build an ugly grain elevator in the middle of an urban center?? Now comes the good part when the neighbours deprived of access to their homes sue everyone involved for damages. Whoever thought that ugly thing would be attractive in that setting between two traditional 1940's style homes has obviously grown up in an environment where ugly homes are the norm.
There’s no 1st floor walls parallel to the street, they may have rushed the second floor framing to keep the weather out or the engineers made a huge mistake.
If anyone's been in any old apartment buildings they know the inspectors in this city are terrible. Get inspectors out to all high rises because they're all falling apart
Theres no sheer wall on the front of the building. What did they think would happen? Lol. It needs to be pulled straight and some engineered braces added. Someone didn't give enough thought to that front wall.
They didn't give much thought to the front and back.
It doesn't look as good any of the forts that I put together when I was a kid using scrap wood and skids.
1.9 Million Dolars? MY JAW IS STILL WIDE OPEN
1.9 million for construction of that??? The house isn’t the only thing twisted in this deal.
A house divided against itself cannot stand😢 this is what happens when you try to build bigger barns. (Large marge)
Anyone with mild construction experience can tell you that you don’t frame a structure with 3 walls and a second floor that narrow using OSB. It has no shear strength. Enginerds should have required a bolted steel post and beam assembly over the garage door to prevent racking.
So who in the building depart at the city needs to be fired for approving these plans and not spotting the lack of actual structure?
The $1.9 million must include building it, tearing it back down, carting it off and starting again from scratch with a new plan. Plus 10 and 10 for overhead and profit
Why were they given permits to build a monstrosity like that. It doesn't fit in the neighborhood.
Maybe some genius thought this ugly poorly build home would drive down property value in this neighborhood.
Looks like the tree house dad built for me as a child. 🎉
The framer was looking at the plan's upside down. The top is the bottom, and the bottom goes on top.
Garage front should be welded steel
This is happening everywhere. This is a problem. City officials should NOT be signing off on these projects. There must be a lot of graft going on at city hall. Taking the money for approving these projects in return for approval. Wow, just Wow.
City rely on engineering drawing, this happen when people hired a cheap framing crew combine with a non experience engineer in residential construction. narrow house need a steel structure to support second floor with big window opening. Aldo We Build Quality!!!
Pretty sure all the high rise buildings are going to collapse in the next few years. The building I live in is scary with the amount of falling plaster and cracks in the concrete
The city accepts the drawings and schedules from the structural engineer. It is too expensive and complicated to check it for themselves. You would be paying a lot more property tax if you wanted the city to check the plans to that extent.
Almost 2 million for that the housing situation has gotten way out of hand
That’s OSB is flexible that’s what happens being cheap also the should have done block for the 1st.
$1.9M to build that narrowass house in that dumpy neighborhood? That’s the real head scratcher here. People are nuts. 😂
Thats what happens when your house skips leg day every time.
that is such a not pretty design for a home . YICKS . but 1.9M really ?
That Emily reporter looks like an angel.
I feel so bad for those poor neighbours. The owner should have to pay for their hotels
It looks safe to me
LOL!!!
Its called shear force. This is a good example of improper shear support or bracing. Now you need an engineer.
Why would ANYONE want to spend 1.9 MIL on such a tiny lot?
That house should have never been approved for that type of remodel in that area. That looks goofy it's gonna destroy the whole neighborhood
1.9 million? For what?
I’m not a contractor, but there is no back wall And upfront the big car garage door that will help why the house is still to the side plus I have too much weight on top two floors😢😢😢😢
1.9 m for that monstrosity? Really?
Nobody wanted to build it so they over charged big time lol.
If Peter Griffin built a house 😂
Hopefully the neighbouring families that had to leave because some rich guy living in mississauga that wanted another overpriced house are compensated well
What company is building it? Its a strange design.
I hope the neighbours sue their asses off. This abomination is an insurance scam for sure. 1.9 mil. If it stood up for a year I guarantee that it would have "caught fire" soon after.
Thirsty uncovered wood sheathing check no tyvek check no cross braces suitable enough to keep the water logged structure from falling down check !
what caused it to shift? it wants to die, because we can already see how ugly the house is going to be.
Some building engineers are about to get fired.
Who the f is this guy? Racking is NOT ‘diagonal twisting’ - it’s deflection in one plane caused by insufficient rigidity in the structure. Looking at the front you can see that there is next to no bracing in the ground floor front walls - nothing that prevents the connections between vertical structural elements and the horizontal ones from being able to ‘hinge‘. The openings are too large to leave enough wall sheathing which is what usually provides such bracing. The alternative to sheathing is to provide frames around the opening that have solid connections that prevent hinging - and steel is the usual way to achieve this.
what an atrocious design
Enjoy the land
Why sell it to make a crappy home and loose your property?
That old dudes funny af 😂
What in Gods name is that top heavy abomination?
No consideration for sheer stresses, much less, supporting it own weight.
1.9M for just construction? I've seen bigger backyard sheds.
Hamilton where?
1:42 looks way shorter than the actual house?
Who the F at the county approved the plans for this atrocious looking building
Looks like an elephant riding a chicken
I wouldn't leave my home because they have no legal authority to force me too and I'd be suing the contractor immediately if the house under construction fell on my house and or hurt me.
Leaning buildings from coast to coast; we can’t build anything anymore. Seems like an odd building anyway between two traditional brick houses. UGLY
That’s poor design. Not enough walls space downstairs to brace all that weight on top. Who engineered that mess.
Why does it look like the tree house Drake and Josh were trying to build? 😂
Yikes. That town has great building codes.
It is pretty obvious what the issue is. This is what happens when you go for the low fee on the structural engineering. People have to ask themselves why the fee is 1/3 or 1/2 of the competitor's fee. You get what you pay for.
It needs a steel transverse moment frame in the front and back to stop the racking. It is a good thing that it is not in a major earthquake area but the seismic risk is not zero. It is risky just to stabilize the building.
Never should of been built like that
That is ugly.
Completely out of place in a classic Hamilton neighbourhood.
thats look like an AWEFUL lot of WEIGHT on the 2nd floor, which would explain the racking, 1st floor cant handle to 2nd floor weight
Bla bla bla. There are no gussets. Everything on the bottom floor is open with a monstrosity on top.
It's weird and hideous, I like the Old American House's with Oak door's and the high ceiling's with wooden staircase's carved by Expert's.
They should of put steel columns in the ground 4ft deep then ran them up so the 2nd floor sits on them, That is how my house was done
4ft? The first frost would heave the house right over!
@@rack9458 nope, they are 4ft down sitting on a 4ft footing so 8ft
It's hideous. Why would you build something that looked like that?!
1.9 million Canadian dollars (+ lot cost) for an ugly house in between two ugly houses.
Its time the government actually starts liscensing the builders. I understand you need a Tarion liscense but there are people who get someone to do it for them