Worth Reporting ?

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Had a call from a tenant yesterday to advise patio door pane cracked/shattered....

thought nothing much of it other than it could be a stress fracture and that these things happen.

I organise to get it replaced through insurers and it's made safe within the hour until the new pane can be sourced and fitted.

Glazier comes round and is adamant it wasn't a stress fracture but had been shot with a air gun pellet or similar.

Given the location of the house, it could only realistically have come from one of 2/3 houses behind.

I'm not massively concerned about the cost as it was only my excess of £100 but it is annoying nevertheless.

I'm guessing that whoever did it will have realised what happened and won't be doing it again in a hurry.

Would you bother reporting to the Police or just chalk it up to experience ?

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silverous said:

I assume said tenant doesn't have a 10-16 year old kid who just happens to be into air rifles? Bit of a long shot....

Nope, he has a child, but she's not 1 yet and not walking so unlikely to be her

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SS2. said:

Had the tenant been mowing the lawn ?

Not recently - I could see from the photos sent the grass was not freshly mown......

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Fartomatic5000 said:

Did your tennant find a pellet? It's a piece of lead and it has to go somewhere, so if it was a pellet, you should be able to find it.

Not to my knowledge but not sure if he's looked.

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Pic attached and it does look like there is a point where something has impacted the pane........

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Just for clarity there is no way the lawn was being mown - it's still way too long in another pic I have for it to have been recently mown and the tenants were both at work............

I still think some sort of stress fracture - windows are 17 years old......(bit nothing wrong with them otherwise)