Baffled mother arrived home to find her house had been mistakenly encased in scaffolding by blundering builders
- Sarah Johnson was baffled to find scaffolding had been put up around her home
- Neighbour Courtney Chapman alerted her by asking if she was repairs done
- Ms Johnson said her landlord didn’t know why the scaffolding was there either
- She lives at Walnut Drive and it turns out the scaffolding was for Walnut Gardens
A baffled mother arrived home to find her house had been mistakenly encased in scaffolding.
Sarah Johnson, who lives in Walnut Drive in Plympton, Plymouth, was out at the time workmen arrived.
Courtney Chapman, her neighbour, was first to alert her to the ‘bizarre’ situation and assumed her landlord had organised repair work.
On September 29, Ms Chapman asked what work Ms Johnson was getting done to her house and sent her a photograph of it covered in scaffolding.
Refusing to believe it, Ms Johnson says she, ‘thought it was a joke or even a filter.’
Ms Johnson’s street Walnut Drive had been mistaken for the similarly named Walnut Gardens.
Plymouth mum Sarah Johnson was left baffled after arriving home to find scaffolding mistakenly put up around her property
Ms Johnson said: ‘On my way home my neighbour rang me to ask, what’s going on with your house and at first I thought she was winding me up. She sent me a photo and I still thought it was a joke, I even thought it was maybe a filter.’
She thought perhaps her landlord had organised some repair work but she said even he, ‘didn’t have a clue what was happening either’.
After doing some digging she discovered that the scaffolding was for new windows – but the firm had no idea why scaffolding had been built around her house.
Her next move was to upload a photo of the scaffolding covering her house to Facebook. In the post, she wrote: ‘Has anyone had this happen? Someone has signed me up for windows and it wasn’t me or my landlord.’
After receiving dozens of messages – largely from people who were as equally baffled – the boss of Plymouth-based company Scafftec Ltd messaged Ms Johnson to apologise.
It turned out, Ms Johnson’s street Walnut Drive had been mistaken for the similarly named Walnut Gardens, something Ms Chapman previously pointed out but had been dismissed
The scaffolding stayed up at Ms Johnson’s home overnight and the company then took it down the next morning.
She said although the guys taking it down didn’t seem to be ‘very happy’, she did compliment the company’s boss who she says was ‘very apologetic’.
Scafftec said the issue had been dealt with and the clients affected had been contacted.