It's Just Not My Day......

Paul.M · Feb 4, 2016

.... Slept in, an hour late to pick up the "mate" (not a good start).

Later on showing him how to put up some door coach lights and drilling from the outside, this happened:-

[ElectriciansForums.net] It's Just Not My Day......

Whoops :rofl:

Within an hour this happened:-

Yep,,,, that is my right leg hanging through the ceiling of the living room! I was looking up at the light fittings and not looking where I was walking! Think I may have to slip the plasterer a couple of quid to sort it out lol :rofl:

Enough is enough so we packed up and quit at 3pm. Tomorrow is another day

Pete999 · Feb 4, 2016

Oh dear

ruston · Feb 4, 2016

Not as bad as it looks, at least they did not bite your leg. Evil stuff that.

davesparks · Feb 4, 2016

Monday and Tuesday I was working in London replacing emergency lights. The delivery was one fitting short so I picked one up from the wholesaler Tuesday morning and duly jumped on the train with the fitting in a carrier bag.
Naturally by the time I had got to the job I wasn't carrying the carrier bag, that was still happily sitting on the train, probably on its way down to Portsmouth by then.

And of course this happened just to wind me up.

Darkwood · Feb 4, 2016

You Dozy Pirrock... :smartass2: Paul....

Done the angle drill through a frame but never gone through a ceiling YET!

Besoeker · Feb 4, 2016

Pete999 said:
Oh dear

Very dear!

Paul.M · Feb 4, 2016

darkwood said:
You Dozy Pirrock... :smartass2: Paul....

Done the angle drill through a frame but never gone through a ceiling YET!

Put my backside through a ceiling once when I was younger! In a loft clipping cables and thought it was a good idea to use a plank of wood to sit on in-between the rafters..... Plank of wood broke in the middle, my arse is now in the spare bedroom, posh customer going frantic. Trip to the local DIY store, bought stuff, fixed stuff, customer gave me a £20 tip!!!!

I'll never forget this moment... my 501 jeans protruding from the kids bedroom!!! Thank God the kid was at school at the time :rofl:

davesparks · Feb 4, 2016

One of my best moments was drilling into a wall for fixings and pushing a bit hard and going through the wall, and then the enormous old painting hanging on the other side!

Andy78 · Feb 4, 2016

davesparks said:
Monday and Tuesday I was working in London replacing emergency lights. The delivery was one fitting short so I picked one up from the wholesaler Tuesday morning and duly jumped on the train with the fitting in a carrier bag.
Naturally by the time I had got to the job I wasn't carrying the carrier bag, that was still happily sitting on the train, probably on its way down to Portsmouth by then.

And of course this happened just to wind me up.

I'm gonna estimate it took you a stack of a dozen washers to make up that gap

Paul.M · Feb 4, 2016

davesparks said:
One of my best moments was drilling into a wall for fixings and pushing a bit hard and going through the wall, and then the enormous old painting hanging on the other side!

Here is one for you all....

Company owner and head spark says "drill here, I've marked it up for you for the 2 x SWA to the outside...... chop chop, time is pushing on so just do it". SO I DID.... 2 x 25mm holes,,, but I cant see day light????? Strange, lets have a look where my drill bit has ended up....... ONLY IN THE CONTROL ROOM OF A POLICE STATION!!!!! Now that took a bit of explaining :rofl:

S**t happens, it how you deal with it that counts.

davesparks · Feb 4, 2016

Andy78 said:
I'm gonna estimate it took you a stack of a dozen washers to make up that gap

Them circular pattress jobbies you get for fitting pendants on mini trunking jobs were the perfect fit.

davesparks · Feb 4, 2016

Paul.M said:
Here is one for you all....

Company owner and head spark says "drill here, I've marked it up for you for the 2 x SWA to the outside...... chop chop, time is pushing on so just do it". SO I DID.... 2 x 25mm holes,,, but I cant see day light????? Strange, lets have a look where my drill bit has ended up....... ONLY IN THE CONTROL ROOM OF A POLICE STATION!!!!! Now that took a bit of explaining :rofl:

S**t happens, it how you deal with it that counts.

I know of a spark locally who liked to wire things through wall cavities. He hadn't quite realised that the party wall on a semi was solid and didn't have a cavity.
The neighbours were impressed with the new bit of White T&E running down the wall

Andy78 · Feb 4, 2016

davesparks said:
I know of a spark locally who liked to wire things through wall cavities. He hadn't quite realised that the party wall on a semi was solid and didn't have a cavity.
The neighbours were impressed with the new bit of White T&E running down the wall

I don't run cables through cavities but I did knock through into a next door property a few months back. Not really my fault though, the downstairs toilets had been fashioned out of the original outhouse and coal hole and were a single brick wall dividing the rooms.
Apparently the weird old guy next door and the previous owner of this house were "in sync with their movements". He told me that "they knew all each others' noises" due to the thin wall !!

davesparks · Feb 4, 2016

I was clipping a bit of 2.5 twin along a wall under a desk when one of the clips flew across the room followed by a stream of water. It turns out the room used to be a bathroom and there was an old unused but still live lead water main buried just under the plaster'