Chucklesome DIY blunder...
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So there I was, putting down new floorboards in the bathroom...
Banging nails in all over, happy as a pig in s
t. When...
Bang, bang, bang, pssssssssssssss!!!!!!!
"Oh cock!!!"
Yep, knocked a nail straight through a hot water pipe...
Cue lots of water, and me running around like a man on fire to turn off the water at the mains.
Pipe now fixed, lesson learned.
Arse.
Banging nails in all over, happy as a pig in s
t. When...Bang, bang, bang, pssssssssssssss!!!!!!!
"Oh cock!!!"
Yep, knocked a nail straight through a hot water pipe...
Cue lots of water, and me running around like a man on fire to turn off the water at the mains.
Pipe now fixed, lesson learned.
Arse.
Oh, hallo DIY buffs. Reg Prescott here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF14UmhMPEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF14UmhMPEY
Edited by JonRB on Saturday 24th October 16:04
How to ruin an entire afternoon;
1. Attempt to reduce squeakiness of floorboards by putting extra screws in.
2. Start drilling pilot holes with no idea what is underneath
3. BANG! There goes the water pipe, excellent work - well on the way to a ruined afternoon.
4. Bring out the jigsaw, in an attempt to cut a hole to mend the pipe after turning off the water supply
5. Cut blindly in the general area of the hole
6. Cut through the water pipe again!
7. Whilst cursing all DIY shops and the idea of DIY (which shall henceforth be known as 'Damage it yourself') cut through a gas pipe.
8. Turn off the gas supply.
9. Swear a little more.
10. Ring the professionals as you should have done to begin with!
11. Swear a bit more as you cough up the cash for fixing it
12. Reflect on an afternoon well ruined.
© My Dad.
1. Attempt to reduce squeakiness of floorboards by putting extra screws in.
2. Start drilling pilot holes with no idea what is underneath
3. BANG! There goes the water pipe, excellent work - well on the way to a ruined afternoon.
4. Bring out the jigsaw, in an attempt to cut a hole to mend the pipe after turning off the water supply
5. Cut blindly in the general area of the hole
6. Cut through the water pipe again!
7. Whilst cursing all DIY shops and the idea of DIY (which shall henceforth be known as 'Damage it yourself') cut through a gas pipe.
8. Turn off the gas supply.
9. Swear a little more.
10. Ring the professionals as you should have done to begin with!
11. Swear a bit more as you cough up the cash for fixing it
12. Reflect on an afternoon well ruined.
© My Dad.
matty_doh said:
How to ruin an entire afternoon;
1. Attempt to reduce squeakiness of floorboards by putting extra screws in.
2. Start drilling pilot holes with no idea what is underneath
3. BANG! There goes the water pipe, excellent work - well on the way to a ruined afternoon.
4. Bring out the jigsaw, in an attempt to cut a hole to mend the pipe after turning off the water supply
5. Cut blindly in the general area of the hole
6. Cut through the water pipe again!
7. Whilst cursing all DIY shops and the idea of DIY (which shall henceforth be known as 'Damage it yourself') cut through a gas pipe.
8. Turn off the gas supply.
9. Swear a little more.
10. Ring the professionals as you should have done to begin with!
11. Swear a bit more as you cough up the cash for fixing it
12. Reflect on an afternoon well ruined.
© My Dad.
1. Attempt to reduce squeakiness of floorboards by putting extra screws in.
2. Start drilling pilot holes with no idea what is underneath
3. BANG! There goes the water pipe, excellent work - well on the way to a ruined afternoon.
4. Bring out the jigsaw, in an attempt to cut a hole to mend the pipe after turning off the water supply
5. Cut blindly in the general area of the hole
6. Cut through the water pipe again!
7. Whilst cursing all DIY shops and the idea of DIY (which shall henceforth be known as 'Damage it yourself') cut through a gas pipe.
8. Turn off the gas supply.
9. Swear a little more.
10. Ring the professionals as you should have done to begin with!
11. Swear a bit more as you cough up the cash for fixing it
12. Reflect on an afternoon well ruined.
© My Dad.
That's really brightened up my day!!
matty_doh said:
10. Ring the professionals as you should have done to begin with!
They get it wrong too, often in a very big way. Many years ago I was working at a Government office where some new office blocks were being built. The contractor, a very well known name, despite full site surveys managed to sever the electricity main one week ( blowing a hole in a JCB shovel in the process ), cut through the gas main the next week ( causing the site of 3000 staff and surrounding houses to be evacuated ), and cut through the water main the week after ( flooding the main entry road to the site ). We were just waiting for them to go through the BT cable duct too, and they would have had the lot - luckily they managed to miss that one.It happens, I was fitting a boiler yesterday and whilst drilling through from outside in, managed to drill straight through a waste pipe concealed behind a kitchen unit with a 24mm masonry bit! Cue cutting away the back of the unit and trying to cut the section of pipe out with a hacksaw blade! Spoils your day!
I nearly always empty the trap down the sink I've just taken it off!
Cutting into a pipe you were certain wasn't live is a good laugh too!
I nearly always empty the trap down the sink I've just taken it off!
Cutting into a pipe you were certain wasn't live is a good laugh too!
Wheelrepairit said:
AyBee said:
Yesterday, I took the u-bend off the kitchen sink to check whether it was blocked like I though it was.....I then poured the water that came out of it, straight into the sink 
And there was me thinking I was the only person daft enough to do this.
The real question though is why as the thought goes through the head of "this is going to go wrong" we still carry on and do it on the believe it won;t go wrong. Only it does!
Of course had we listened to that little thought and changed what we were doing the job would have taken about a tenth of the time it ends up taking.
Of course had we listened to that little thought and changed what we were doing the job would have taken about a tenth of the time it ends up taking.
Nothing, and I mean nothing beats moving into your new house and popping round to meet the neighbour who's in his garage to introduce myself...
Got halfway up the drive to see him twirling 10 feet of hosepipe around his head and shouting at me to go away in a very agitated manner.
Turns out he'd bought one of those D.I.Y outside tap kits so he could water the front garden..
The kit was one of those where you clamp the tap onto the pipe, turn it a few times and it cuts into the mains feed pipe.
Sadly - he chose to do it on the gas pipe, and not the water pipe, and was trying to get the gas out of his hosepipe!!
Got halfway up the drive to see him twirling 10 feet of hosepipe around his head and shouting at me to go away in a very agitated manner.
Turns out he'd bought one of those D.I.Y outside tap kits so he could water the front garden..
The kit was one of those where you clamp the tap onto the pipe, turn it a few times and it cuts into the mains feed pipe.
Sadly - he chose to do it on the gas pipe, and not the water pipe, and was trying to get the gas out of his hosepipe!!
Dear All,
refitting skirtings after replastering. I can see some burglar alarm cables embedded in the plaster through the gap between plaster and floorboards.
I won't drill there then, I'll make a hole, oh, 10cm away should be more than enough, wah wah wee banshee siren bugger and other choice words which I can't hear myself saying the noise is so loud.
Can I remember the code, can I chuff? Wah weee eeahg, eeagh.
Searched through the file and other "safe" places for the code, can't find it. Eeeahg, eeagh, wah weee.
Remove the box from the outside of the house - there was scaffolding up so I can get to it. Phew that's got the outside quiet but there's a siren inside too.
Ring the alarm company (who are superb by the way), fortunately the chap is there and talks me through how to stop the chuffing racket.
Although the cables entered the plaster at a clearly visible point my assumption that they ran vertically was sadly optimistic and I'd drilled through the "tamper loop". We had to hack a lump of the nice new plaster off to expose enough cable to repair it. Luckily this was all behind the skirting,
regards,
Jet
refitting skirtings after replastering. I can see some burglar alarm cables embedded in the plaster through the gap between plaster and floorboards.
I won't drill there then, I'll make a hole, oh, 10cm away should be more than enough, wah wah wee banshee siren bugger and other choice words which I can't hear myself saying the noise is so loud.
Can I remember the code, can I chuff? Wah weee eeahg, eeagh.
Searched through the file and other "safe" places for the code, can't find it. Eeeahg, eeagh, wah weee.
Remove the box from the outside of the house - there was scaffolding up so I can get to it. Phew that's got the outside quiet but there's a siren inside too.
Ring the alarm company (who are superb by the way), fortunately the chap is there and talks me through how to stop the chuffing racket.
Although the cables entered the plaster at a clearly visible point my assumption that they ran vertically was sadly optimistic and I'd drilled through the "tamper loop". We had to hack a lump of the nice new plaster off to expose enough cable to repair it. Luckily this was all behind the skirting,
regards,
Jet
Beefmeister said:
So there I was, putting down new floorboards in the bathroom...
Banging nails in all over, happy as a pig in st. When...
Bang, bang, bang, pssssssssssssss!!!!!!!
"Oh cock!!!"
Yep, knocked a nail straight through a hot water pipe...
Cue lots of water, and me running around like a man on fire to turn off the water at the mains.
Pipe now fixed, lesson learned.
Arse.
Did the same knocking a small nail in the wall to hang a picture up......3 metres run of wall, I had to hit a 10mm vertical microbore central heating pipe.........Banging nails in all over, happy as a pig in s
t. When...Bang, bang, bang, pssssssssssssss!!!!!!!
"Oh cock!!!"
Yep, knocked a nail straight through a hot water pipe...
Cue lots of water, and me running around like a man on fire to turn off the water at the mains.
Pipe now fixed, lesson learned.
Arse.
- Tip* I stopped the flow of water with a dollop of blue tac, secured with tape, until the plumber arrived....
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