Tradesman left mortified after accidentally ripping up garden at wrong house

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A tradesman was left red-faced after accidentally ripping apart a garden at the wrong address.

Dreigan Fisher, an Australian tradesman, took to TikTok on Monday, May 17, to reveal that he'd accidentally removed the lawn of the wrong house after turning up to work early.

Unfortunately for Fisher, when he began working at an address in Melbourne's Cranbourne West, he didn't realize that there was another house on the same street with exactly the same number.

"What a way to start the day," Fisher said, before explaining the blunder.

Watch the hilarious TikTok below: 

He said: "I get a text to say 37, I wait for the client to come in with the excavator, waited for Tyler, pulled up the pavers, only to find up there's a 37 all the way down there too.

"I've just gone to a complete stranger's house, got them to open up the shed, pulled up their pavers, waited for my boss, just to find out it's the wrong house. F**k."

Tyler Brooks, the owner of Tylers Landscaping, even made a video about the incident himself.

"Get a load of this," Brooks said before showing Fisher starting work on the wrong garden.

"I'm running late so he [Dreigan] comes in and starts moving things and ripping up pavers, but what he didn't know was that's actually the wrong house."

He then walked Fisher a few doors down the street to what he didn't realize was the correct house.

Brookes then had to explain that the mistake would be rectified by putting back the pavers that had been taken out by accident.

Unsurprisingly, the videos have not gone unnoticed on social media, and since they were posted, have received a combined total of almost 700K views.

Thankfully, Brookes had his employee's back and was extremely understanding about the mistake, which he says was caused by the street's "stupid setup".

"It's a really stupid setup because it's all part of the one block of units but the end unit belongs to a different street but has the same number 37," Brookes told news.com.au.

He went on: "Dreigan is a loyal worker who doesn't answer back, just does what he’s told. As you saw, he did what I asked. It was just unfortunate that there was another 37, 3 houses away.

"Can't blame him he did everything right."

Featured image credit: Pexels / Anders Kristensen