{"id":760802,"date":"2026-04-29T07:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/760802\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:18:35","slug":"phoenix-homeowner-accuses-contractor-of-unsafe-wall-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/760802\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix homeowner accuses contractor of unsafe wall demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A Phoenix homeowner is accusing a contractor of putting her family and property at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The homeowner claims the contractor started tearing down a 20-foot brick wall without warning and without taking the proper safety measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Claire Haines says big chunks of rock and concrete came raining down on her backyard last week when a construction crew started tearing down the block wall that backs up to her property, off <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kvS8ZTeNfh9Q7Dgd8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kvS8ZTeNfh9Q7Dgd8\">7th Street and Missouri Avenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A Valley homeowner claims a contractor started tearing down a 20-foot brick wall without...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6GOEF4CYT5FMNLPYVRHGDXEKIM.JPG\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A Valley homeowner claims a contractor started tearing down a 20-foot brick wall without warning and without taking the proper safety measures.(Arizona&#8217;s Family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Video shows the wall being broken apart and all the debris that landed in her yard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">\u201cI was terrified for my family. I was appalled that they would be allowed to do this without any safety measures in place,\u201d Haines said.<\/p>\n<p>New hospital construction<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A few weeks ago, the Phoenix mom had received a letter from the developer that a new community hospital was being built behind her house, and to be prepared for construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Haines insists she was never told when the wall would come down and that her family may have to duck for cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy first thought is \u2018I want to shut this down immediately.\u2019 What they are doing is wrong and unsafe, extremely dangerous. It was amazing, big chunks going through my trees on my property. It was baffling,\u201d Haines said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Haines called the City of Phoenix to file a complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Inspectors were sent out and issued an order to stop demolition of the wall until safety measures are put in place to protect neighboring properties.<\/p>\n<p>Contractor\u2019s response<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The owner of the construction company, <a href=\"https:\/\/eaglebuildersgc.com\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawReMdpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFodGlHSkxFUDVnNzJrNDk2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgrzgBK5nkHXF8cPm1Mff55ymbOnueSu1CaOTt_XM3LL0KIMdmPsl5Gq0xFq_aem_ShtjHVGDxFUw0XCJym6QRg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/eaglebuildersgc.com\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawReMdpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFodGlHSkxFUDVnNzJrNDk2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgrzgBK5nkHXF8cPm1Mff55ymbOnueSu1CaOTt_XM3LL0KIMdmPsl5Gq0xFq_aem_ShtjHVGDxFUw0XCJym6QRg\">Eagle Builders<\/a>, was reached by phone and asked why additional precautions were not taken when they started tearing down the wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The owner said it was a different company that did the demolition, despite there being no record of any other contractor involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lane Boland is co-owner of SKA Homes and an experienced general contractor. He says it is a contractor\u2019s job to work with neighbors impacted by a project to make sure they are safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis contractor really screwed up. I don\u2019t know how to say it more plainly than that, what should happen versus what did,\u201d Boland said. \u201cThere should have been tarps, nets, whatever on the other side in order to capture it all and move it off this homeowner\u2019s property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Haines is hopeful that when demolition of the wall starts up again, her family will feel safer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey have every right to put up a micro hospital, every right to demolition, no right to do it in unsafe environment that puts others in danger,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The contractor does not have an after-hours permit to work on the weekend. But early last Saturday morning, the homeowner woke up to the sound of jackhammers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Once again, city inspectors were called out to shut them down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 A Phoenix homeowner is accusing a contractor of putting her family and property at risk.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":760803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,28692,43428,312622,312623,312624,50,1589,312621,7183,67,586,132,5230,312620,68,2969],"class_list":["post-760802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-city-of-phoenix","tag-contractor","tag-contractor-unsafe-demolition","tag-eagle-builders","tag-eagle-builders-demolition","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-demolition","tag-phoenix-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-unsafe-demolition","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116486781156353060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}