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Grandma's Garage Explosion Story
One of my customers email me this and I thought I would pass it on to the board.
This happened in Dallas yesterday.
Rick
My grandma's garage exploded..... I need a contractor
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Last night my grandma and a friend came back from eating and managed to leave her car running in the garage - for 4 hours. The exhaust gases eventually built up enough volume and concentration such that they were ignited, most likely by the water heater pilot light.
The resulting explosion blew the double garage doors outward, along with the center brick pillar between them. It was a flash explosion that lasted a split second. Burnt some stuff inside the garage, but only really flimsy stuff that was easily ignited.
Before I go looking in the phone book I thought I would ask if anyone here is a general contractor and can handle a little structural repair to the front of the garage area, replacing the pillar, etc., then I am sure we'll have to get a garage door company to fix the doors.
Her car is trapped in the garage right now, and I could break the door down to get it out, but once the door is removed, we need to get the garage fixed ASAP.
Let me know. I am working on uploading some pictures of the damage.
She is lucky the explosion happened or the CO would have killed her and her friend that was there. The fire chief was telling me the level throughout the house was off the chart !
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