School Boy Errors.

[High Tower]

terminating pendants and realising you have not gone through the hole

Done that!

 

[SYKRAPS]

Chopping in a socket on the dividing wall between 2 houses not realising there was no cavity, 3 hits later waving at the neighbour watching TV because I hit too hard

 

[MarkieSparkie]

It's late Friday and the bathroom virtually complete, only the extractor fan to fit and wire up, when the apprentice realises he's forgotten to remove the metal grating to the air duct where he has to fit the fan. Quickly out comes the 2ft crowbar and without thinking he levers the cast iron grating off, crash! clouds of dust! and the grating falls into the bath full of water the fitter has left whilst his sealant sets.
All in a panic the apprentice realises the mess he has created and tries to clean it up ruining the silicon sealant with yet more plaster and dust. That's only the start of his problems when he sees that the bath is leaking water all over the new flooring because a corner of the cast iron grating has chipped the enamel and punched a hole through the steel bath.
Wisely he owns up to the bath fitter, only to be informed that was the last bath of that particular size in stock and he's just put the whole job back 4 days and that his wage packet will be at least £250 lighter at the end of month. 5 minutes of madness he and the rest of the team will never forget!

 

[AP Electrical]

doing some work at an old factory, some idiot left a fork truck in way so I moved it to top of hill to get it out of the way, ran back got back to work only to see a big red flash go by, turns out I forgot the handbrake!, crashed straight into corner of building, massive crack and loads of loose stone. Anyway next day after not telling anyone what had happened arrive there to find gaffer going mental, apparently that night a skip driver had been and crashed into a wall causing loads of damage all of which the skip company were denying, saying they had not even been on site , long story short we didn't use that skip company again and I've carried this guilt around for years.

 

[kingeri]

Drilling 6 holes down from the loft above a partition wall for light switch/socket feeds only to find I'd measured wrong and the holes were in the ceiling in front of the wall.

 

[wade88]

Picking up cheese and onion instead of salt and vinegar, total disaster. Day ruined

 

[44ALLAN]

Chatting away merrily with the IT office staff while making up some 4 way extension cables for them.
Gave the 1st one to its new owner...........I'd put a 3 pin plug on each end:-------:

 

[loop3]

Put in a new board but forgot the busbar.

 

[loop3]

A old collegue, working in a design college, got chatting away to some students while wiring floor socket... Two sockets forming a ring ..no supply.

 

[ExArmy]

second fixing an alarm panel with 10 cables coming in, all labelled up as the different zones, keypads, sounder etc and i decided to trim them all to length at the same time, cut all the labels off. whoops!

 

[jaresquire]

LOL - done that one!

 

[Guest55]

wiring up click type lighting socket couplings and not remembering to slide the cap over the flex first.
i will do that every time till the day i die lol.

 

[DNS1]

Making off a nice big SWA and forgetting to put the shroud on argggghhhhhhhh

Where I used to work we would always make our own audio cables... It seemed like every other one would be soldered perfectly, but having forgotten to put the shroud on the cable first! I should have learnt having previously done the same thing our university radio station... (only we couldn't be bothered to re-do the work, so half the plugs ended up wrapped in tape!)

I can't remember exactly what I was doing, but fairly recently I spent 10 minutes measuring and marking for a hole I had to drill... Checked it, double checked it, then picked up the SDS and drilled the hole on a random mark on the wall, rather than my very precise pencil mark 3 inches away! Doh!

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Took 2 bedroom floors up, carpet and laminate, to try and find the supply to living room and kitchen light fittings that weren't working. Only to realise about 4 hours later, that all the lamps in both were blown. They were those bloody awful 12v fittings with half a million of those little crappy lamps.

 

[bigbaddave]

Drawing round cavity wall boxes facing the wrong way and finding they slip right through