I have been finishing off a double garage being converted into a home office, separate toilet and store room built, except the Polish builders disappeared when there workmanship was questioned. More of that in a minute.
The garage is at the back of the garden with a public road behind that feeds rows of garages for the next roads flats on one side and garages for theses houses on this side. At 10 am i was fixing a security light over the side gate when there was an almighty big BANG from the end of the row of lock ups the other side. I thought i felt the shock wave pass me & loads of birds flew away. Peered over the edge of the garage roof, nothing to see, no smells or smoke and no one looking out of windows in the tower block . Walked out to the corner, just a nice shiny black Clio parked up with black windows so i went back to work thinking it must have been someone slamming one of the up & over door down hard and it was the echo i heard.
Amongst the jobs i am finishing off is plumbing in the toilet. I gave up on Friday as the blue water pipe was blocked and trying to back flush it & blow down on it didnt work. Brought my compressor in from home and wound that up to about 90 psi but still no good so told the customer the 25m run from the house will have to be dug up. The customer remembered seeing a blue pipe sticking up out the earth just by the toilet footings so we started there first. We found a joint in the pipe, took it apart and the black plastic dust cap was still on the end of the pipe. Well that now makes everything the Poles did a complete f**k up.
So i have been busy all day enjoying working out side in this nice weather and the lady of the house brings me out my 4 o'clock cup of tea, she notices a few people over the fence. I open the rear gate and there must have been 10 police cars, 2 ambulances, a fire engine and LFB incident van. No one knew nowt so i walked over to a copper, asked whats happening and told him i had heard an explosion earlier. It turns out a guy had committed suicide in the black Clio i had seen. He had bought a gallon of petrol, parked up, locked the doors (keys still in ignition) and then poured the gallon of petrol over himself whilst sitting in the car. He went to light it but the fumes in a shut car ignited immediately and that was the blast i heard. No windows were broken though, the black glass was actually from the blast & it took his face off.
The car sat there until 3.30 when a schoolgirls dog started sniffing around the car and she saw the body. It turns out i was the only one to hear the blast. I couldn't get my van out the incident area & didn't finish giving 3 statements till 9 pm and only got home a short while ago.
The garage is at the back of the garden with a public road behind that feeds rows of garages for the next roads flats on one side and garages for theses houses on this side. At 10 am i was fixing a security light over the side gate when there was an almighty big BANG from the end of the row of lock ups the other side. I thought i felt the shock wave pass me & loads of birds flew away. Peered over the edge of the garage roof, nothing to see, no smells or smoke and no one looking out of windows in the tower block . Walked out to the corner, just a nice shiny black Clio parked up with black windows so i went back to work thinking it must have been someone slamming one of the up & over door down hard and it was the echo i heard.
Amongst the jobs i am finishing off is plumbing in the toilet. I gave up on Friday as the blue water pipe was blocked and trying to back flush it & blow down on it didnt work. Brought my compressor in from home and wound that up to about 90 psi but still no good so told the customer the 25m run from the house will have to be dug up. The customer remembered seeing a blue pipe sticking up out the earth just by the toilet footings so we started there first. We found a joint in the pipe, took it apart and the black plastic dust cap was still on the end of the pipe. Well that now makes everything the Poles did a complete f**k up.
So i have been busy all day enjoying working out side in this nice weather and the lady of the house brings me out my 4 o'clock cup of tea, she notices a few people over the fence. I open the rear gate and there must have been 10 police cars, 2 ambulances, a fire engine and LFB incident van. No one knew nowt so i walked over to a copper, asked whats happening and told him i had heard an explosion earlier. It turns out a guy had committed suicide in the black Clio i had seen. He had bought a gallon of petrol, parked up, locked the doors (keys still in ignition) and then poured the gallon of petrol over himself whilst sitting in the car. He went to light it but the fumes in a shut car ignited immediately and that was the blast i heard. No windows were broken though, the black glass was actually from the blast & it took his face off.
The car sat there until 3.30 when a schoolgirls dog started sniffing around the car and she saw the body. It turns out i was the only one to hear the blast. I couldn't get my van out the incident area & didn't finish giving 3 statements till 9 pm and only got home a short while ago.
