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

[Paul.M]

.... 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:-



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

 

[NDG Elecs]

I have drilled through to the neighbours property once. Single skin wall between two flats. Didn't realise til the neighbours knocked on. Thankfully it was an easy patch up. In my younger days I helped out a roofer once. Did exactly the same; foot through bathroom ceiling. In mitigation it was starting to rain with no roof on and the joists were slippy!!

 

[sparksburnout]

Hows this for a potential mega cock up but saved by a stroke of luck. I was working at a very "posh" gaff a couple of years back, had to drill a hole from the swimming pool area into the 3 car garage. I was under the impression that it was a cavity wall, so I put some tape round my drill bit to make sure it only just went through, as it was impossible to work out exactly where it was going to emerge and there was wall to wall racking on the other side stacked with tons of god knows what. Unfortunately it was a single skin so when the drill suddenly lurched forwards I was a bit surprised to hear a dull thud from the garage. When I went round to check a 5 litre tin of Creosote had flew off the racking and landed plum in the space between a brand new Jag and a vintage soft-top Mercedes bonnets. Still makes me go all queer now when I think about it, owners were out so couldn't move them before starting...........

 

[sparksburnout]

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'

Haha that's brilliant. I don't mind going through anything that can be easily be re-plastered or otherwise sorted (like door frames) but water it a ****er. Not done it yet but I am sure the day will come. My mate drilled through some buried central heating pipes that he had plumbed in himself! what a plonka. Does anyone have an emergency plan for hitting a water pipe? I have a cycle inner tube in the door pocket of the van, they can be stretched round a leak and work amazingly well in an emergency, although only tested at home.......

 

[davesparks]

Haha that's brilliant. I don't mind going through anything that can be easily be re-plastered or otherwise sorted (like door frames) but water it a ****er. Not done it yet but I am sure the day will come. My mate drilled through some buried central heating pipes that he had plumbed in himself! what a plonka. Does anyone have an emergency plan for hitting a water pipe? I have a cycle inner tube in the door pocket of the van, they can be stretched round a leak and work amazingly well in an emergency, although only tested at home.......

I was cards in with a local building company with every trade on the company. So I turned the stopcock off and just phoned the office and asked for a plumber, then the painters were sent out to fix the mess.

 

[sparksburnout]

I was cards in with a local building company with every trade on the company. So I turned the stopcock off and just phoned the office and asked for a plumber, then the painters were sent out to fix the mess.

I always make a point of finding out where the stopcock is now before getting the SDS out.

 

[davesparks]

I always make a point of finding out where the stopcock is now before getting the SDS out.

Well it's important to inspect the incoming services for main bonding before you start

 

[Andy78]

I once caused a leak in a pipe by lifting a board. The floorboard had previously been up for pipes to be installed and when screwed back down a screw had pierced and sealed the pipe.
"Ah Crap, you're gonna need a plumber down here" I said to the landlord of the rented house. "Weeelll, it wasn't leaking with the screw in was it ?" he said. He honestly just made me put the screw back in, although that was by no means the worst thing I saw him do in a property he rented out.

 

[sparksburnout]

Well it's important to inspect the incoming services for main bonding before you start

Ohhh you contentious devil you. Might have just been replacing an outside light.....

 

[davesparks]

Ohhh you contentious devil you. Might have just been replacing an outside light.....

I was meaning more that it's a good excuse to ask these questions without getting the customer worried about why you are wanting to know how to shut the water off

 

[sparksburnout]

I was meaning more that it's a good excuse to ask these questions without getting the customer worried about why you are wanting to know how to shut the water off

Good point, good point.

 

[sparksburnout]

It's coming out now lads isn't it??? What other F*** Ups have we all done in our work????

This is what its all about come on lads don't be shy

 

[Kamikaze]

I once started to lift the floorboards in a house when the insulation on the old black rubber cables decided they have had enough and turned to dust. It was the main run for all the cables back to the board. All the cores fused themselves together and in an instant the landing was ablaze. Shot down the stairs, past the lady of the house and the kitchen fitters, and threw the main switch. Then legged it to the van for the fire extinguisher. Had that situation under control in no time. The interesting part of that story is the fact that none of the rewirable fuses had popped and the lady of the house quite rightly was very upset. She had only just bought the property and it had a periodic inspection the month before, which gave the installation a clean bill of health. On the plus side, it was better to do all the redecoration after the place was rewire than if she had done it before.

 

[Vitesse]

I nearly flooded a pub today changing an immersion heater element. Put it another way I know the RCD works ok now!!!! It wasn't my fault, honest. It was just an unfortunate set of circumstances and fortunately no lasting damage was done.

 

[Geordie Spark]

.... 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:-

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Whoops :rofl:

Within an hour this happened:-

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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

WOW!! ...... All that damage and not a plumber anywhere in sight!!

Well done .... I'm impressed!! :sailor:

 

[dansk]

Arranged to go to site whilst customer was out, key left in safe place and customer said ill see you when i finish work - just finishing off putting floor boards back down, checked for pipes underneath and wacked the nail right into the pipe! - dohh - i even looked to see where they where....right at that point the customer come home and i had to introduce myself with water spraying out of the pipe.