It's been one of those days, when things just go pear shaped!!!

[zzr1200]

I've had all the floors up and replaced the very old insulation (1990?) between the garage and front first floor bedrooms, continued with rewiring the power sockets.

I finished relaying the chipboard floor yesterday evening, all I had to do today was fill in the channels in the wall for the new sockets wiring and fix the floor down....

I have used a plastic conduit layout for the ring main sockets (easy maintenance with 125mm excess caps), because I hate having to pull floors up to do wiring and being as one of my sons will probably end up inheriting the place.

So I filled the channels in the walls, time to fix the chip floor down, as in most cases over the years things have moved, shrunk and squeaks appear, so time to screw the floor down.....

So off I go, lined out the joists runs, time to fix the floor down no more squeaks..... ..... doing great....screw goes in speeds up then slows down.....

Screw straight through the 22mm central heating pipe..... £*$% $^$&

It's just not my day, today.......

 

[Wildefalcon]

Welcome to my life

 

[Mick Annick]

I've had all the floors up and replaced the very old insulation (1990?) between the garage and front first floor bedrooms, continued with rewiring the power sockets.

I finished relaying the chipboard floor yesterday evening, all I had to do today was fill in the channels in the wall for the new sockets wiring and fix the floor down....

I have used a plastic conduit layout for the ring main sockets (easy maintenance), because I hate having to pull floors up to do wiring and being as one of my sons will probably end up inheriting the place.

So I filled the channels in the walls, time to fix the chip floor down, as in most cases over the years things have moved, shrunk and squeaks appear, so time to screw the floor down.....

So off I go, lined out the joists runs, time to fix the floor down no more squeaks..... ..... doing great....screw goes in speeds up then slows down.....

Screw straight through the 22mm central heating pipe..... £*$% $^$&

It's just not my day, today.......

Been there, done that, but in a newly decorated living room, Mrs A and the decorator were not amused.

 

[Erie Fred]

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[Blobber]

Did that year's ago cutting a floor up with a circular saw, was a gas pipe though! Obviously set the saw just too deep

 

[brightspark]

3 times in the last few weeks at work been lucky moved a light fitting over 4 inch and drilled a 25mm hole in the plasterboard for cables just as well because there was a 25mm plastic heating pipe pressed against the board where i would have screwed the new fitting to another one cutting a box in to the wall and a mains feed cable behind fortunately never damaged it. nearly drilled a cold feed pipe in the wall missed by 1.8th of an inch .. its just russian roulette and can go one way or the other . last week a young lad wasnt paying attention and rammed up the back and side of my van i was parked on footpath and he reached down for a drink and swerved in to me . vans wrote off

 

[Wedg1e]

Must be something in the air 'Spark, your mate Paul next door to me had the front end of his van rearranged a few weeks back.

Did the screw through a water pipe thing years ago, before I had the gear and the skills to fix it myself. Had to collect a mate and his tools, leaving the central heating system to empty itself into my lounge (via the ceiling)...

 

[Memmeddu]

I'd like to be brutally honest with you...
But the thread should have been name today was a good day.
That because on almost 99% of the days planets align to make easy and elementary stuff become a circle of hell.
Almost every single day I have to face up very bad situations started as an easy job.
Well I've learned that when ever someone tell me they have a task or an quick little job for me, my brain automatically translates in quote " I have a big PITA for you"
Facts

 

[brightspark]

Must be something in the air 'Spark, your mate Paul next door to me had the front end of his van rearranged a few weeks back.

D

yep was working with him 2 day they have wrote his off as well

 

[Morrisman]

I did the same boarding the loft out once. Daft thing was I had marked exactly where the pipes were on the boards, with thick black felt pen…

…then minutes later I sank a screw in right on the middle of the drawn on pipe.

 

[Wedg1e]

yep was working with him 2 day they have wrote his off as well

It didn't look that bad to me, but as we all know vehicles are made to crumple like a Coke can internally these days.
I saw he has a replacement so guessed the other wasn't coming back.

 

[brightspark]

It didn't look that bad to me, but as we all know vehicles are made to crumple like a Coke can internally these days.
I saw he has a replacement so guessed the other wasn't coming back.

yea his gaffer has given him the spare van for now his was same as mine the cill and door pillar were stoved in along with a bent wheel back door damage side pannel well gone amongst other stuff

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

My mate was screwing down a threshold strip in the kitchen...think it was Christmas eve.

Some moron had put a gas pipe through the centre of the doorway under the floor. Felt very sorry for him.

 

[addjunkie]

Weve all done a central heating pipe Im sure. Ive done cables too. All part of lives enjoyment!

 

[jsf55]

Heating pipes, wiring, dad like knocking nails in the middle of boards ! Best one was in work where they took out the fibre optic cable for the intranet, yards from where it should have been

 

[Nomad]

Friend-of-a-friend asked me to drill 4 mounts into their 2 ft sq concrete gatepost a couple of weeks ago to mount a "Dun romin" type plaque (not quite but you get the idea).
I used small rawlplugs and kept them shallow, still got a puff of something so I've either hit a pocket of dry concrete or a live wire
Wire options would be the light on top of the post or the long ago "disconnected and made safe" electric gate.
I asked them to check and they can't find anything amiss...

Years ago I dug a shallow trench under my driveway gate so I could fit a row of upright "soldier" bricks as I was planning to lay gravel inside my gate.
Things I now know :
Yellow plastic pipes that hiss when you puncture them with a garden fork are often gas !
"Gas pipes *MUST* be buried at least 3ft underground and be clearly marked with *GAS* tape between the pipe and surface level" is often thought to be a legal requirement but it's just general advice, laying a gas pipe 6" under the lawn with no markings above is perfectly legal. Honest Guv .. the Gas Board told me so it must be true.
The info came in handy when I was digging another shallow trench at the other end of the driveway - more yellow piping inches below the surface.

 

[Erie Fred]

Pffft....amateur's....
They do it much better in Louisiana....:

 

[bricol]

Reminds me of the dredger pulling the plug from the Chesterfield Canal in 1978 and draining it into the nearby river.

Plug put in in the 1770's when they built the canal so they could drain it for maintenance - dredging crew found a length of chain obstructing work they were doing, finally pulled it out, attached to a lump of wood - went for lunch - came back to empty canal

 

[jimbo84]

When I was an apprentice relaying some floor boards and the gaffer told me to observe where the pipes were and mark on the boards, didn’t observe well enough and I nailed straight through a central heating pipe.

Also drilled through a 22mm gas pipe in a wall, what’s that noise…then smelt it. A bit of a panic trying to find the gas meter followed. A tame gas man we knew at the time came out and sorted it and said the gas pipe shouldn’t have been run where it was.

 

[Cobbler]

Reminds me of the dredger pulling the plug from the Chesterfield Canal in 1978 and draining it into the nearby river.

Plug put in in the 1770's when they built the canal so they could drain it for maintenance - dredging crew found a length of chain obstructing work they were doing, finally pulled it out, attached to a lump of wood - went for lunch - came back to empty canal

That happened on the Sharpness to Gloucester canal about 25 years ago, all the boats left high & dry