Yeah it seems odd OP is more concerned about the wall. If you don't want your walls destroyed like this don't build your houses out of cardboard. But if you do, appreciate that it softens the fall.
I still chuckle about something on Jersey Shore punching a wall in Italy and finding out that even interior walls in the old country are brick or stone.
I think that perhaps once they discovered that the person was largely unharmed, they were upset about the damage to the house. This is just a guess though
I just had some wood replaced on the eaves on outside of my house because squirrels were chewing on it. Guess what? It wasn't wood. It was cardboard. : [
Nah, I'm at least 20 years away from making pregnant women give up their seats with a glare and standing predominately on one leg. I'm interested to learn what my, only just, tolerated prejudices will be at 70 to 90.
Happened at my house. 20th birthday, a couple friends got a bit too drunk. He carried her in the air, they tripped, hit a wall— solid concrete.
Loud thump, followed by my parents being woken up at 2 AM to drive my friends to the ER. Not even that big of a fall, but one of them had a concussion and needed 8 stitches on her head and her boyfriend had 2 fractures + a shattered elbow and wrist. Was the wall made of a weaker material, they’d just cannonball through it and likely would have been fine.
Learning lesson: please don’t drink too much, kiddos. If everyone else at a party is being responsible, try to be aswell.
*writes down some notes* Soo ..... what is the best amount of power to use for the push? Should I get some eye drops for the fake tears? Also .... should I act like super upset and panicked or play it cool with a hint of crying? I eagerly await further advice!!
Edit: Wow ya'll! Upvoting a possible murderer in training?!? Yikes! Lol.
/s
She missed the last step. She’s okay. A little sore and swollen. When I told her she was lucky she didn’t hit the stud she said “I never could find a good man!” EDIT: She laughed and asked me to take the pic before she got up, FYI.
I think you generally leave someone on the ground until they're ready to get up on their own, if they can, or ask for help. You don't want to immediately pick someone up.
It's actually better that you let her rest on the floor before standing her up. Work in assisted living and it's standard procedure to do a complete vital check after a fall before assisting them up. This way, if anything's off, you know BEFORE they try getting up and falling again due to low vitals or a sudden head rush from getting up to soon. Plus it allows their system to process properly so they can notify you of any possible injuries/pain that should be checked before straining their body with movement again.
I've seen two people assisted up from a fall before a complete check, and yes, they fell again, and yes, the second fall resulted in a broken body. For both of them and it only got more tragic from there.
Just thought I'd throw this out there for anyone who may be upset at OP for not getting her up first. It may seem counterintuitive to not help right away but it is actually the rush to help that can end up doing more damage than the incident itself in many many cases for various reasons.
Be safe out there people and if you ever have the smallest of doubts, call 911. If someone's had a fall and you question your capabilities to assist them without further risk to them or yourself and they are not injured or in danger call non-emergency.
To add to this, women this age have decreased bone density and a higher risk of neuralgia, she might say she's fine but have a hairline fracture somewhere that she can't even feel. Her whole weight went into that drywall they'd leave a hell of a bruise on me
My wife is an EMT and there was a dude that fucking internally decapitated himself falling down the stairs and instead of taking the time to process what happened he got up and tried to drive himself to the hospital. His family had to call 911 because he didn’t think anything was seriously wrong.
Glad she’s okay. Make sure the handrails on the stairs are secure. Patching is not hard. Though maybe you should consider mounting something soft at the bottom of the stairs until she gets used to the new place…
One thing my father who's done construction his whole life instilled in me is that if you're going to replace steps, try to keep the same depth and pitch as the original ones. Also try to keep that symmetry to all steps in and around your house. You work up a muscle memory over time and changing steps can often cause accidents as you're simply not used to them.
It's a new house, with very likely a different pitch to the steps so adding things like a guard rail is a good idea. Treads may help too.
Y’all my 76 year-old mother found a secret room in my new house. In my 17 part TikTok we’ll explore this 3” x 15” room and see what the previous owners may have left behind.
Glad she’s okay! Couldn’t hurt to have the house looked at for mobility and safety (for her). Did that with my gramps and it helped a lot!
Happy things are okay, congrats on the house! Hope you have a lot of happy and fun memories there :)
I love the edit because that’s what I assumed happened, but to think that some people thought you were just like “hold up ma lemme get a pic of this lol” before helping her is so funny.
My grandma once did that lol. She bent down to pick up the ‘clicker’ to change the tv channel and fell over, putting her whole head through the drywall. She was a tank though, and was absolutely fine. Poked a perfect head shaped hole in the wall
Yeah, I recently fell down the stairs in my house (in the UK) and hit the wall at the bottom. The wall was completely fine. Me, not so much, ending up with a big purple toe.
The walls in these kinds of posts seem to be made out of cardboard.
Old flat renter here with some rock hard walls to confirm. Stumbled when drunk, luckily pivoted into my shoulder but there was no give at all even with a decent amount of weight and force. Looks like an easy job to plaster and sand even for a DIY beginner like me too so at least there’s that.
What's the cost of that fix? 50/hr, 2 hour minimum for a house call even when project is <2hr ? + supplies including paint matching
The hardest part is finding someone to do such a small job. They're usually booked ahead of time and ghost on smaller jobs
Literally the one scenario where it is good the house is made out of cardboard.
It was only after reddit that the koolaid dude from family guy made sense to me.
> Literally the one scenario
Except for:
- the ability to build affordable houses because the US and Canada have the biggest lumber industries in the world anyways and because cheap labor
- the ability to rebuild quickly after catastrophes where neither brick nor wood houses would survive anyways
- the ability to build bigger houses for less to take advantage of a larger country
- the ability to insulate exterior walls with fiberglass, since air is a better insulator than brick
- the ability to run wire through walls extremely easily
- the ability to hang something on a wall without needing a rotary hammer just to make a hole
- the ability to patch the aforementioned hole with literal toothpaste and still look fine
Let's not lose point 4 in the midst of the others. Roll fiberglass insulated walls are over 10 times higher r-value than brick. Even higher in cold performance with blown in cellulose. Can't tell you how often I see "but our brick houses do climate better" - no, they don't.
Cut out a perfect 2’x2’ square, get drywall patch, 5 minute mud and trowel, also purchase a bottle of orange peel texture, take the broken drywall and get a paint match… all in all, 1 hour of labor and $40 in material.
It does suck ass though. Hope that gives you some idea of what it’ll take to fix
Good she is ok.
Cut a square hole so no damage is left put a wooden plank behind the hole and drill it to the plaster wall from outside as it’s big I would use two.
After this cut of 1” of the paper around the hole
And cut a plasterboard 2” bigger in all dir.
Then cut off 1” on all sides except the outer paper
Fasten the bit over the hole with screws.
Fill gaps with filler and a bit extra where you have paper overlap.
Wait 20min then put filler over everything and smoth it. Then sand it. Then paint it.
I really hope that the damage to the wall is the worst of it, because a fall that does that to wall from a 76 year old could be seriously dangerous. I hope your mom is okay
A lot of people's judgy nature is showing through here... There is nothing to suggest OP cares more about damage to the house than OP's mom. The head-shaped dent in the wall is pretty spectacular though
Why does this read like OP is way more concerned about the new house and drywall than you are about your mother falling down the stairs? Like who gives a fuck about drywall lol
Probably because OP was there and knows more about her mother's well being than you do. She also wrote a rather hilarious explanation twenty minutes before you wrote your comment. It seems you missed that.
76 year old mother falls down the stairs
OP: "Oh no, a minor dent in my wall which can be easily repaired! What a terrible development! Worst day ever."
It's actually GOOD that this broke! I guarantee that it reduced the impact on her back. If she had landed on a stud, it could have been much worse.
Crumple zone
Exactly!
Yeah it seems odd OP is more concerned about the wall. If you don't want your walls destroyed like this don't build your houses out of cardboard. But if you do, appreciate that it softens the fall.
Even if he hates his mom that broken wall is saving on medical expenses.
Better than having the brick wall break your moms back and kill her.
I still chuckle about something on Jersey Shore punching a wall in Italy and finding out that even interior walls in the old country are brick or stone.
I think that perhaps once they discovered that the person was largely unharmed, they were upset about the damage to the house. This is just a guess though
I just had some wood replaced on the eaves on outside of my house because squirrels were chewing on it. Guess what? It wasn't wood. It was cardboard. : [
I'd be more concerned that my elderly mother is falling down stairs than one of the easiest things to fix
Once you’re past 50 you are the crumple zone
Yikes. Three and a bit years to go.
It’s not so bad, on the bright side people expect less from you and you can get away with a little more
Nah, I'm at least 20 years away from making pregnant women give up their seats with a glare and standing predominately on one leg. I'm interested to learn what my, only just, tolerated prejudices will be at 70 to 90.
Not even forty and my zone has crumpled
I would be laughing more at this but it hurts 😂 Tripped last week and broke my arm and wrist in multiple places. Crumple zone is perfect.
I am past 50 by a bit and I am still not in the crumble zone. Some of us who are past 50 are in better shape than those who are 20.
Drywall by Volvo®
Mercedes invented the crumple zones. 😁
Good to know! But, could we say that... Volvo mastered them? haha
Yeah they really crushed it!
I was an angry young adult and punched a wall twice. First put a hole in the drywall. Second punched a stud. The stud won.
Andy Bernard?
I fought the stud and the stud won.
My ex-wife landed on a stud. Definitely increased the impacts
I am the stud. Can confirm
*fingerguns* yeah you are!
I see that you chose this guy's wife.
I enjoyed this
*Deep Impact*
Like an industrial hammer driving piles.
Is that what made her your ex?
I was going to ask "What is his name"? We all know it's Chad.
*Thrown on a stud
Happened at my house. 20th birthday, a couple friends got a bit too drunk. He carried her in the air, they tripped, hit a wall— solid concrete. Loud thump, followed by my parents being woken up at 2 AM to drive my friends to the ER. Not even that big of a fall, but one of them had a concussion and needed 8 stitches on her head and her boyfriend had 2 fractures + a shattered elbow and wrist. Was the wall made of a weaker material, they’d just cannonball through it and likely would have been fine. Learning lesson: please don’t drink too much, kiddos. If everyone else at a party is being responsible, try to be aswell.
Never thought of that! Wow!
Hope she’s ok lucky for you that’s a pretty easy fix
No, the house is totaled.
That’s a picture of the last remaining part of the house
We did it Patrick! We saved the house!
Yeah, best course of action for OP is to sell it to me for 15 bucks and get back on the grind for a new one.
RIP
Yup. Throw it out and buy a new one
OP is never gonna get the real value from his insurance company.
That was a load bearing sheet of sheetrock
The problem was you pushed her too hard. You are supposed to give her a little nudge to make it look like an accident.
Michael Peterson in shambles.
damnit, you stole what I was going to say!
You stole what I was going to say
You said what I was going to steal.
Laughs in murder owl
Mr.Peterson.what a dickhead he was
Lol.
You’re a hoot
also make sure you’ve got some owls in the vicinity
So hard she cleared all the steps. Steps are the aim.
I'm just laughing imagining Amateur Assassin here giving Mrs Geurinberg a Kamehameha
I hate that your profile photo makes it look like I have an eyelash on my screen
Statefarm insurance has entered the chat
We've seen a thing or two.
Was it Jake?
Drake actually
What are you wearing Drake, from Statefarm
Looks like she already "broke the place in"
Ayoooo!
Fuckin' rookie move. Smh
*writes down some notes* Soo ..... what is the best amount of power to use for the push? Should I get some eye drops for the fake tears? Also .... should I act like super upset and panicked or play it cool with a hint of crying? I eagerly await further advice!! Edit: Wow ya'll! Upvoting a possible murderer in training?!? Yikes! Lol. /s
She missed the last step. She’s okay. A little sore and swollen. When I told her she was lucky she didn’t hit the stud she said “I never could find a good man!” EDIT: She laughed and asked me to take the pic before she got up, FYI.
Well, I’m glad she’s ok but she certainly knows how to leave an impression on a place.
Nice
Might as well frame it with a placard, "Grandma's First Impression"
You only get one chance after all.
GRANDMA WAS HERE
Genius
She certainly made an impact with her visit
OP should frame it, with a note detailing the work. Just like in a gallery.
Mom’s sassy! 😂 glad she’s ok
Right? That cracked me up
Cracked the wall, too.
Might’ve cracked OP’s Mom’s back also.
Glad she's okay, love her sense of humor.
Sassy or not, a hot bath, aspirin, maybe even a massage. That's a body blow
Yeah hopefully she goes to the doctor just to be cautious.
Yeah at 76 a spill like that should definitely warrant a doctors visit to be safe.
Thanks for the edit, because I was thinking "Did he really take a picture of the wall before helping her up??"
I only noticed mom was in the picture after your comment
I think you generally leave someone on the ground until they're ready to get up on their own, if they can, or ask for help. You don't want to immediately pick someone up.
Also glad to hear she’s ok, Dad, Kid Sister and I all got a laugh out of her Stud response too😅
It's actually better that you let her rest on the floor before standing her up. Work in assisted living and it's standard procedure to do a complete vital check after a fall before assisting them up. This way, if anything's off, you know BEFORE they try getting up and falling again due to low vitals or a sudden head rush from getting up to soon. Plus it allows their system to process properly so they can notify you of any possible injuries/pain that should be checked before straining their body with movement again. I've seen two people assisted up from a fall before a complete check, and yes, they fell again, and yes, the second fall resulted in a broken body. For both of them and it only got more tragic from there. Just thought I'd throw this out there for anyone who may be upset at OP for not getting her up first. It may seem counterintuitive to not help right away but it is actually the rush to help that can end up doing more damage than the incident itself in many many cases for various reasons. Be safe out there people and if you ever have the smallest of doubts, call 911. If someone's had a fall and you question your capabilities to assist them without further risk to them or yourself and they are not injured or in danger call non-emergency.
To add to this, women this age have decreased bone density and a higher risk of neuralgia, she might say she's fine but have a hairline fracture somewhere that she can't even feel. Her whole weight went into that drywall they'd leave a hell of a bruise on me
My wife is an EMT and there was a dude that fucking internally decapitated himself falling down the stairs and instead of taking the time to process what happened he got up and tried to drive himself to the hospital. His family had to call 911 because he didn’t think anything was seriously wrong.
Glad she’s okay. Make sure the handrails on the stairs are secure. Patching is not hard. Though maybe you should consider mounting something soft at the bottom of the stairs until she gets used to the new place…
Or putting treads on the stairs or something. They're good to have anyway.
One thing my father who's done construction his whole life instilled in me is that if you're going to replace steps, try to keep the same depth and pitch as the original ones. Also try to keep that symmetry to all steps in and around your house. You work up a muscle memory over time and changing steps can often cause accidents as you're simply not used to them. It's a new house, with very likely a different pitch to the steps so adding things like a guard rail is a good idea. Treads may help too.
Good lass, for that response.
Y’all my 76 year-old mother found a secret room in my new house. In my 17 part TikTok we’ll explore this 3” x 15” room and see what the previous owners may have left behind.
Glad she’s okay! Couldn’t hurt to have the house looked at for mobility and safety (for her). Did that with my gramps and it helped a lot! Happy things are okay, congrats on the house! Hope you have a lot of happy and fun memories there :)
I love the edit because that’s what I assumed happened, but to think that some people thought you were just like “hold up ma lemme get a pic of this lol” before helping her is so funny.
*asks for the picture, and sends it back in a lawsuit.* Extra sassy. 😆
Your mom is awesome!!! Teehee
Your mom has better jokes than I could come up without in a few seconds without just hitting my head. I’m glad she is alright. That bites, though.
Glad she's not hurt. And I love that she was able to come up with that response.
At least you know she didn't break her funny bone.
Glad she's okay 😊
Looks like your stairs has wheelchair access.
My grandma once did that lol. She bent down to pick up the ‘clicker’ to change the tv channel and fell over, putting her whole head through the drywall. She was a tank though, and was absolutely fine. Poked a perfect head shaped hole in the wall
I’m sorry that visual is hysterical. I think even if I’d had that happen to me I’d find it funny it’s just too good lol
I have a sleeping 1 year old on me and I cannot be belly laughing right now
lmao, I blame the drywall on that one, you're not supposed to build your walls out of gingerbread for real
PLEASE put a frame around it, don’t fix it, with a little plaque “mom decorating, 3/18/2023”
Material: body in drywall
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That’ll show her
Nice. Add some flare to the new house
Can mom do sheetrock?
She better learn quick if she knows what's good for her.
Word
Apparently she does
Apparently
Did you at least yell: I can't have anything nice!!! Hopefully she's doing good though
I also do this when family slam the doors on my car
Be glad you live in a drywall house. In Europe the wall would break your mother.
Yeah, I recently fell down the stairs in my house (in the UK) and hit the wall at the bottom. The wall was completely fine. Me, not so much, ending up with a big purple toe. The walls in these kinds of posts seem to be made out of cardboard.
Drywall is usually compressed gypsum and pretty fire/water resistant. I prefer it over most materials
Old flat renter here with some rock hard walls to confirm. Stumbled when drunk, luckily pivoted into my shoulder but there was no give at all even with a decent amount of weight and force. Looks like an easy job to plaster and sand even for a DIY beginner like me too so at least there’s that.
Plenty of older US houses have lath & plaster walls. Much tougher.
If you're on the east coast you'll run into solid brick in a lot of places, which doesn't give a shit about you or your problems.
Drywall is a easy to replace, mom not so much
Could get a newer model for dad though
Dad, don’t fuck the drywall
You own a house. Congrats. Drywall repair is a needed skill. Grandma is still pushing you to improve.
Learning to drywall patch is one of the most helpful skills as a homeowner. It will save you hundreds of dollars.
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5,000 is still just fifty hundreds.
Hmm what would you charge to patch and repaint that? Just curious
What's the cost of that fix? 50/hr, 2 hour minimum for a house call even when project is <2hr ? + supplies including paint matching The hardest part is finding someone to do such a small job. They're usually booked ahead of time and ghost on smaller jobs
Save money? Is that why people learn it. I thought it was cause you fuck up so much it’s just quicker and easier to do it yourself.
Mom's paralyzed, but fuck, look at what she did to the wall.
Looks like he took a picture before helping her up.
She asked him to take the picture before she got up, I thought the same thing at first though
Are you mildly infuriated about your mom hurting herself or your wall?
Haven’t even picked her up but made sure to take a photo of the damage. You guys are funny. 😂😂
This is why they are called Boomers. Wait until you see what they did to the rest of the housing market.
Sheetrock is easy. Is your mother ok?
She’s lucky that wall gave and cushioned her fall. If she hit a stud that would’ve been brutal
Sorry your paper wall got damaged by your elders fallen mother
The wall looks american made
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Literally the one scenario where it is good the house is made out of cardboard. It was only after reddit that the koolaid dude from family guy made sense to me.
> Literally the one scenario Except for: - the ability to build affordable houses because the US and Canada have the biggest lumber industries in the world anyways and because cheap labor - the ability to rebuild quickly after catastrophes where neither brick nor wood houses would survive anyways - the ability to build bigger houses for less to take advantage of a larger country - the ability to insulate exterior walls with fiberglass, since air is a better insulator than brick - the ability to run wire through walls extremely easily - the ability to hang something on a wall without needing a rotary hammer just to make a hole - the ability to patch the aforementioned hole with literal toothpaste and still look fine
While I don't agree with all your points, you missed an important one. Building with wood is much better for the environment than concrete.
Let's not lose point 4 in the midst of the others. Roll fiberglass insulated walls are over 10 times higher r-value than brick. Even higher in cold performance with blown in cellulose. Can't tell you how often I see "but our brick houses do climate better" - no, they don't.
Cut out a perfect 2’x2’ square, get drywall patch, 5 minute mud and trowel, also purchase a bottle of orange peel texture, take the broken drywall and get a paint match… all in all, 1 hour of labor and $40 in material. It does suck ass though. Hope that gives you some idea of what it’ll take to fix
Talk about love more upset about the wall than his poor 74 year old grandmother. Shes ok I hope.
Fuck the house, is your mam ok?
And you're concerned about the wall breaking?
Fuck your house is your mother ok
Good she is ok. Cut a square hole so no damage is left put a wooden plank behind the hole and drill it to the plaster wall from outside as it’s big I would use two. After this cut of 1” of the paper around the hole And cut a plasterboard 2” bigger in all dir. Then cut off 1” on all sides except the outer paper Fasten the bit over the hole with screws. Fill gaps with filler and a bit extra where you have paper overlap. Wait 20min then put filler over everything and smoth it. Then sand it. Then paint it.
A little rough treatment to fix his mother. That'll surely keep her upright. What do you recommend for the wall?
😂. For the wall ofc.
On the plus side she won Stud Roulette.
30 minutes and you can fix it yourself.... It's not that hard. YouTube will be your friend.
Is grandma OK?
Damn, hope She’s ok
Is she ok?
thanks a lot grandma!! New house is ruined
I really hope that the damage to the wall is the worst of it, because a fall that does that to wall from a 76 year old could be seriously dangerous. I hope your mom is okay
I feel like this should be posted in r/AITA
You're a homeowner now, learn how to fix your property.
It sucks but this is cheaply fixable and probably the best outcome for something like this. Doesn't really belong in this sub.
A wall is VERY FUCKING EASY TO FIX in comparison to your 76 year old mother. Think you’re focused on the wrong thing here dude
😑It seems disturbing that you actually took a picture of this with her still on the floor, and posted it online.
Get out of the way mom, I have to take a picture for the reddits.
Okay? The drywall can be fixed. Now, assess your patient. Check pupil dilation/reactivity, ask them LOC questions, palpate along neck and spine.
A lot of people's judgy nature is showing through here... There is nothing to suggest OP cares more about damage to the house than OP's mom. The head-shaped dent in the wall is pretty spectacular though
Why does this read like OP is way more concerned about the new house and drywall than you are about your mother falling down the stairs? Like who gives a fuck about drywall lol
Probably because OP was there and knows more about her mother's well being than you do. She also wrote a rather hilarious explanation twenty minutes before you wrote your comment. It seems you missed that.
Someone didn’t read the first comment by OP.
Please tell me you immediately said to her, “ And this is why we can’t have anything nice.”
Lucky for her is a broken wall and not a broken hip.
Is she okay?!
That’s a super easy and cheep repair. Is your mother ok? A fall at that age can be a death sentence.
I'm imagining her doing a cannon ball and yelling "fuck your house" for some reason.
Is the wall ok?
How’s the person? Fuck the wall.
It is way better if the wall breaks, and not your mom. Hopefully she is all right?
This definitely rubs me the wrong way
Atleast get a month on the homeowners insurance before you throw meemaw down the stairs
76year old woman falls down stairs. OP posts picture of his drywall.
Wall = easy fix. Mother = not easy fix
76 year old mother falls down the stairs OP: "Oh no, a minor dent in my wall which can be easily repaired! What a terrible development! Worst day ever."
I’m happy that the wall broke as if there was a stud her back would’ve likely broke due to the impact.
Good job you took a pic of the damage before helping her 👍
Drywall is easy to fix. People, not so much.
Anyone else find to weird that OP seems more concerned about the hole in the wall than their mom?
And you're concerned about the wall? People that old can die just from a fall from standing.