Victim in July balcony collapse sues property owner, Tybee By Dana Clark Felty, SavannahNOW
Feemster, an attorney whose practice focuses on personal injury complaints, has not filed a suit. However, he hired structural engineer David Sladek to determine if the balcony was up to code.
Sladek would not comment, but Feemster said the engineer's report showed that four nails holding a center beam to the house bore most of the weight on the balcony. (photo)
According to codes in place at that time, the structure should hold 40 pounds per square inch, totalling 7,680 pounds for the 12-by-16-foot deck.
'It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that those nails couldn't hold that much weight,' Feemster said.
PEAT BOG FAMILIES GET £6M PAYBACK By Michael Christie, dailyrecord.co.uk
BUILDERS have coughed up £6million to residents of a housing estate whose homes began to sink into a peat bog.
The bumper pay-out is part of a massive buy-back scheme at 'Tumbledown Terrace'.
The nickname was given to the estate after dream homes became a nightmare when they started to collapse.