SYDNEY STORM DAMAGE
JERRY” BUILT .HOUSES,
SYDNEY'. April 28. Not a. few owners of what are termed “jerry built" houses are sadder hut wiser people in Sydney to-day. While Micro was hardly a roof in the metropolis ■which did not leak under the pressure of the. recent cyclonic, storm, it was the.
“jerry-built” houses which are prettily finished oil' that, sutfeml most. The storm was the acid test ot sound workmanship. Scamped work told its tale eloquently. Not. a few owners of houses found their roofs in adjoining gardens, their rooms saturated with water, and their walls spreading and cracking under the weight of badly-constructed roofs and “jerry-built” foundations. Many homes, especially bungalows, prettily designed and nicely finished oil externally, have proved bad bargains. Nut a- few houses which are in the course of construction will have to be largely rebuilt, or brick walls which have not been blown down have been so saturated with water that they have become buckled. Sydney will not quickly forget, the' Easter storms that, left sic much devastation and ruin in their wake.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 3
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