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The closest one I can remember of hand was doing a kitchen rewire chiselling out wall below worksurface and luckily spotted a copper pipe plastered in wall
before I cut through it and it was gas.
Batty
before I cut through it and it was gas.
Batty
reminds me of a job about 18 month ago. new build house, they had just moved in. had to drill a hole to outside for cable for outside light. gas meter meter directly below where i wanted hole on other side. gas pipe goes thru back and appears to go into boxing on the other side (in the house). so i drill hole at opposite side to boxing - about 750mm to the side and 300mm higher than where gas pipe leaves meter box
drill got about 40mm into wall, i stop and think 'that doesnt sound good' and quickly run outside to turn gas off...
dont want something to go wrong with that vehicle!
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Frightning stuff gas did you see the programme about what happens when properties go up.
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what programme was that?
gas isnt that bad... unless there is a 12mm drill bit thru the pipe!
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That's ok - it when you need a bit of extra light in the dark corner and strike a match
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Not sure what it was called had different disasters. Leaving a bath running, what happens if a house catches on fire and how quick it spreads, the gas one, Patch drilling through a wall was on there. Frightning stuff gas leak was the worst one though.
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My labourer kango'd through a live 15mm copper gas pipe. It was only when i walked in the room later and smelt gas he mentioned, 'oh, i wondered what that pipe did'.
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When I was apprentice I went to a job with my boss, the woman had come in and put a bag of shopping ontop of her cooker, then accidently somehom turned her cooker hob on and went back out, she returned abit later to find all her downstairs windows had been blown out, culprit was a tin of fly spray in the shopping bag!
Re-fitting kitchen with builder, new pipes plastered over but still visible at skirting level having been fitted by builder. "Where do you want backbox" says I, "there" he says. Promptly drilled hole straight through pipe. DOH.
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Dismantling a distillery which was split by a main road. Old PILC's ran through ducts under the road to supply buildings on other half of site. You can see where this is going can't you?
What we were doing was pulling the fuses, disconnect at either end, pull cable out and cut at either side of the road. If the road ever gets dug up, they can dig them out if they want. There we are on the other side of the road, getting ready to stihl saw the cables that other members of the squad were busy un-cleating from walls etc. Myself and my buddy were cutting the cables out, but couldn't agree which cable it was. I was adamant the cable Johnny was pointing to was live, but he said no. In the end, he got a 6" nail and a mash hammer and tapped it a couple of times to get it started. Then hammer, hammer, BANG!!!! Blushing
It took weeks for his eyebrows to grow back. We succeeded in blacking out the only part of the site not being demolished.
What we were doing was pulling the fuses, disconnect at either end, pull cable out and cut at either side of the road. If the road ever gets dug up, they can dig them out if they want. There we are on the other side of the road, getting ready to stihl saw the cables that other members of the squad were busy un-cleating from walls etc. Myself and my buddy were cutting the cables out, but couldn't agree which cable it was. I was adamant the cable Johnny was pointing to was live, but he said no. In the end, he got a 6" nail and a mash hammer and tapped it a couple of times to get it started. Then hammer, hammer, BANG!!!! Blushing
It took weeks for his eyebrows to grow back. We succeeded in blacking out the only part of the site not being demolished.
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I remember my old man fitting a curtain rail up at my sisters brand new house. Drills into the wall and then hits something. Turns her husband says what do you think. He says 'go for it', so he did.
Straight through the water pipe, luckily a plumber was working on site at the time.
Could have been worse, the gas pipe was an inch to the right of it.
I've still never understood why they run the pipes up the sides of windows in new houses.
Straight through the water pipe, luckily a plumber was working on site at the time.
Could have been worse, the gas pipe was an inch to the right of it.
I've still never understood why they run the pipes up the sides of windows in new houses.
maybe it would have been better hitting the gas pipe - at least the gas wont flood your house, and can normally be turned off a lot quicker than water
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Did a first fix on new kitchen and tbh made a bit of an ar*e of it.
When kitchen fitter came, three of my boxes were in wrong place. I wasn't happy, hurt pride and all that, not helped by the cocky kitchen fitter spending all the time I was moving them telling me how perfect he was, and how he never made a mistake.
Laughed by c*ck off when he drilled straight into a hot water pipe. It took him ages to find where to turn it off (if only he'd asked I might have told him!) I helped by trying to catch the leakage in his tool box while he looked for the stop tap, must have taken him hours to dry his gear out! - who say's there is no God??
When kitchen fitter came, three of my boxes were in wrong place. I wasn't happy, hurt pride and all that, not helped by the cocky kitchen fitter spending all the time I was moving them telling me how perfect he was, and how he never made a mistake.
Laughed by c*ck off when he drilled straight into a hot water pipe. It took him ages to find where to turn it off (if only he'd asked I might have told him!) I helped by trying to catch the leakage in his tool box while he looked for the stop tap, must have taken him hours to dry his gear out! - who say's there is no God??
i was on a job just finished first fix no it all diy man was plaster boarding
ceiling had cables in for 8 downlights asked him nicely be carefull with the cables please do i look like a fing ***** ? came the reply 20 mins later
say to him you do know theres a gas pipe running tight to the wall under the joists in that room mate. no theres fing not came the reply yes there is on the lefthand side he comes back with if its fing gas how come theres water ****ing
out of , he had put 3 nails in it and just stopped for a tea break
ceiling had cables in for 8 downlights asked him nicely be carefull with the cables please do i look like a fing ***** ? came the reply 20 mins later
say to him you do know theres a gas pipe running tight to the wall under the joists in that room mate. no theres fing not came the reply yes there is on the lefthand side he comes back with if its fing gas how come theres water ****ing
out of , he had put 3 nails in it and just stopped for a tea break
ever notice when someone does put a screw/nail into a pipe, and notice there is a slight leak, the first thing they do is remove the screw/nail (i.e the only thing plugging the hole) and then think about turning off water
stooppidiest mistake was drilling a heating pipe through a floor board blind because at the time i couldnt be ar$ed to lift the board and ended up nearly flooding the house out !!
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I just did a job where the owner said his son was an electrician but he is not allowed to sign off for part p, ok I said if he labours for me I will give you a reduction thats cost of materials and my labour only, great he said.
I went to the house to start no sign of his son, so I started the first fix still no sign of his son, end of the day I asked which downlights he wanted and told him I would cut out all the holes in the morning.
Next morning I turned up with the downlights he requested only to find his son had cut out all the cut outs for the downlights in my absence.
Great I said saved me loads of work only trouble is he has cut out 75mm and all these downlights are 63mm cutouts.
After the job had finished I charged him an extra £500 for the lack of a labourer and the delay waiting for the repairs to the ceilings.
I went to the house to start no sign of his son, so I started the first fix still no sign of his son, end of the day I asked which downlights he wanted and told him I would cut out all the holes in the morning.
Next morning I turned up with the downlights he requested only to find his son had cut out all the cut outs for the downlights in my absence.
Great I said saved me loads of work only trouble is he has cut out 75mm and all these downlights are 63mm cutouts.
After the job had finished I charged him an extra £500 for the lack of a labourer and the delay waiting for the repairs to the ceilings.
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