Fisherman Marlon Soleyh and his wife Erica were looking at television when they heard a loud noise under the house and the sound of the walls cracking.

Within minutes, the wooden house at Murli Street, La Romaine, was in shambles.

When the commotion started, the Soleyhs awakened their three children and took them to their grandmother’s home, a few houses away.

Neighbours came to the rescue and helped the family by propping up the bathroom with a galvanize water tank so that it would not topple over. The tank separated the bathroom from other parts of the house.

Soleyh, 35, said the incident occurred around 11 p.m. last Friday, when he and his wife were watching the television show All of Us. Since then, the couple said they have been sleeping under a part of the house that was not destroyed.

Soleyh said: ’Even though the house fell down nothing in it was damaged. However, all of our stuff got wet due to the rain on Sunday. We are now trying to locate some stuff because everything got mixed up and our children haven’t been able to attend school since.’

The children are aged ten, three and two years.

The couple said they were now building a temporary structure at the back of the house so they would be able to place their appliances and clothes in a secure and dry area.

It is still not known what caused the house to collapse.