On site today and I had an Ashley backbox that was loose on one side because the plasterer is rubbish (another story). Anyway, I thought I'd do a quick fix by putting some fire foam on the dodgy side to hold it in the cavity wall. The walls are full of the stuff anyway.
I'm there putting a bit in at a time so not to over fill the void. Ok a bit more as nothing is showing. Ok a bit more, still nothing foaming back at me. Ok a lot more until it starts foaming back at me..... That was a bit of a mistake.
One of the building site labourers said "are you sure your not going through the other side?"
Me "No, don't think so mate. Let's just have a look to check." Then I saw this coming out of the other room:-
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Paul you rounded door handle. I've only gone and put way too much in and its now running down the wall like a slow moving waterfall! Btw this picture was taken just as the flow began, ten seconds later I was too busy to take a pic but it was worst than that!
Twenty mins spent cleaning the foam from the other backboxs and cables, another 40 mins cleaning the bloody foam from my hands and screwdriver, what a prat
. Oh, that's a ÂŁ40 socket that I've just wrecked, its in the bin, they can clean it if they want because I'm not.
Head spark just laughed at me and then banned me from using the foam gun again unless supervised! Think he was joking but I'll put that to the test tomorrow.
Lesson for today Paul, don't be out done by the words of wisdom from a builders labourer again lol.
What silly mistakes have you done in the past? This could be an interesting thread if people own up?
I'm there putting a bit in at a time so not to over fill the void. Ok a bit more as nothing is showing. Ok a bit more, still nothing foaming back at me. Ok a lot more until it starts foaming back at me..... That was a bit of a mistake.
One of the building site labourers said "are you sure your not going through the other side?"
Me "No, don't think so mate. Let's just have a look to check." Then I saw this coming out of the other room:-
Paul you rounded door handle. I've only gone and put way too much in and its now running down the wall like a slow moving waterfall! Btw this picture was taken just as the flow began, ten seconds later I was too busy to take a pic but it was worst than that!
Twenty mins spent cleaning the foam from the other backboxs and cables, another 40 mins cleaning the bloody foam from my hands and screwdriver, what a prat
. Oh, that's a ÂŁ40 socket that I've just wrecked, its in the bin, they can clean it if they want because I'm not. Head spark just laughed at me and then banned me from using the foam gun again unless supervised! Think he was joking but I'll put that to the test tomorrow
. Lesson for today Paul, don't be out done by the words of wisdom from a builders labourer again lol.
What silly mistakes have you done in the past? This could be an interesting thread if people own up?
