article_snippet: It looks like the aftermath of an earthquake in suburbia.
article_snippet: But this broken brickwork is actually the result of a botched building job that brought the house down on a couple’s plan for a basement extension.
article_snippet: like something out of a disaster movie’.
article_snippet: £345,000 ground-floor flat into the basement of this property in Finchley, north London, when disaster struck .
article_snippet: the pair alerted the pair upstairs neighbour and all of the pair were forced to flee as the building fell down into the basement .
article_snippet: Finchley Council has demolished the building and made the site safe.
article_snippet: : Workers dismantle their dream property in north London after the botched basement extension.
article_snippet: There is now nothing more than a hole where the house used to be, with supporting beams used to keep the neighbouring properties up .
article_snippet: The couple and the upstairs tenant, who had a baby, hastily evacuated and watched as the building crumbled. '
article_snippet: The next door house was also badly damaged.
article_snippet: The council took emergency steps to shore-up what remained of the building and The council has remained derelict ever since.
article_snippet: The firm had taken no effective steps to to prop up the flank wall or to lay a concrete floor slab which could have averted disaster.'
article_snippet: Some neighbouring houses were damaged by the collapse, including one that the wall fell against.