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When I was an apprentice, they had me under the most smallest voids under the floor crawling on me belly first fixing ring mains etc,33yrs on much 2 fat for that now haha:teeth_smile:
 
Well found out yesterday that after first fixing a kitchen I had drilled through into next door for the rawl plugs. When the drill just sank into the wall thought i'd gone into the cavity, turns out its a single skin wall.

how hard is it to put a bit of tape on drill bits so you don't over do it?
 
you can even buy drills with adjustable depth gauges. never use 'em though coz. they're marked in bloody milli thingies.
 
oh my god its happened to you as well!

Haven’t actually done this myself. Just wanted to see if anyone else would own up to doing it. :D
However, Amp David’s post has reminded me of a time when I was working in a boiler house at a golf club. Fixed a length of steel trunking onto a concrete wall. Got a bit of a telling off the following day from the gaffer. Turns out the wall was only about 2 inches thick and my drill bit 4 inches. Knocked all the tiles off in the female toilet where the drill bit came through.
 
you can even buy drills with adjustable depth gauges. never use 'em though coz. they're marked in bloody milli thingies.

you mean this thingy
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