mcerd1
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 01:41 PM |
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That was far too close......
I'd just got to bed last night when I here alot of thumping about next door and then some shouting outside - went to have a look out the window
and thats when I smelt the smoke 
legged it downstairs and out the door at which point the nextdoors window exploded! and a min later the blue lights came round the corner and had it
under control a few mins later
lucky knowone was hurt, but next doors got one totaly gutted room and alot of somke and water damage in the rest of the house
turns out the fire started about 3ft from my bed - thankfully on the other side of a solid brick wall
the thing that really shocked me was how much smoke came through onto my side - so I'm off now to fit another smoke alarm, then I've got
the whole house and everything in it to clean in an attempt to get rid of the smell 
[Edited on 29/5/2010 by mcerd1]
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macspeedy
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 01:46 PM |
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fooooookin hell, glad your ok.
i thought i was bad with a hangover
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Thurbs
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 01:47 PM |
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scary
very scary you can never have enough smoke alarms.
As an ex fireman always used amaze and horrify me that some people still don't have them, glad nobody was hurt.
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 01:54 PM |
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Crikey - scary!!
Cant you claim for professional cleaning from their insurance?? They're gonna be making a small claim themselves i guess!!
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 01:58 PM |
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im sure can claim for smoke damage.
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grub
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 02:15 PM |
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good job tha wernt pissed
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scootz
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 02:41 PM |
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Glad to hear you're ok Robert...
Ask your neighbour for their insurance details and get them to instigate the cleaning. You'll be amazed at how much a proper clean-up will
cost!
We had a similar experience when we were living in a flat... fire downstairs and our carpets, wall, furniture and clothes were all ruined. The b*gger
downstairs didn't have insurance though and we had to claim off our own!
It's Evolution Baby!
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mcerd1
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 03:07 PM |
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its not that bad - no worse than the smell you get standing too close to a bonfire
it was my bedroom and a the attic that got the worst and luckly there isn't anything it the attic
I'm goting to go through everything over the next couple of days and see if anythings actually been damaged
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philw
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 03:16 PM |
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Exactly the same thing happend to me in Aug 08, scary isn't it, i did have things in my attic and ended up claiming on the insurance, they sent
a cleaning team out to clean the house and everything that was smoke damaged they replaced or sent off to the dry cleaners, infact the were so many
clothes it came to 2k for the dry cleaning or there abouts, so they offered us £1500 to wash them ourselves
[Edited on [1275146254R0=033131p: by philw]
Must try harder
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norfolkluego
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 05:34 PM |
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What caused it, any idea?
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gottabedone
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 06:10 PM |
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I wonder.........drink and smoking or drink and cooking?
glad you're ok as that's as close as you ever want to get to a house fire
Steve
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JoelP
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 07:03 PM |
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i still feel sorry for my dad, driving up the road and seeing flames and fire engines, his heart must have stopped til he realised it was next door 
Empty house fortunately 
Beware! Bourettes is binfectious.
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jossey
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 07:56 PM |
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glad you hope you have got smoke alarms in your house.
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