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you should have had the front to go and ask him then Paul....as i would have gone and asked him.....maybe he was going for gold on it....
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haha love these!
as an apprentice, one of my colleagues finished his pyro cubicle job miles before anyone else? but no compound in pots!
i drilled into cavity wall for shower cable, then saw neighbour through glass of ffony door, leaning over wall and knocking on the door - turns out it wasn't a cavity after all!
as an apprentice, one of my colleagues finished his pyro cubicle job miles before anyone else? but no compound in pots!
i drilled into cavity wall for shower cable, then saw neighbour through glass of ffony door, leaning over wall and knocking on the door - turns out it wasn't a cavity after all!
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Reminds me of the new loo on a site that WAS connected Ok - just that there was no bog roll. Up goes the youngster, does the works - "S***e no paper" -"Oh whats this yellow fluffy stuff? - that'll do nicely" says youngster
Moral:
Never ever use fibre glass insulation to wipe your a**e
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sparks1973
yep...should`v chosen a fistful of that shredded stuff they use as insulation instead....
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ayjay
the bricks in the pic are called "pots" they are used extensively around the world, europe to thailand
normally only one skin-no cavity
to sink a box into them u need to use a small disk cutter
normally only one skin-no cavity
to sink a box into them u need to use a small disk cutter
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First day on a new site, 40+ men all on the same floor getting in each others way.
Plasterer gets a full bucket of pva and puts it on the top of his step ladders. He drops his brush, bends down to pick it up and his left arse cheek nudges the steps and the full gallon bucket of pva ends up all over him. I tried sooooo hard not to laugh out loud but I couldn't help it, thank god he saw the funny side of it.
Plasterer gets a full bucket of pva and puts it on the top of his step ladders. He drops his brush, bends down to pick it up and his left arse cheek nudges the steps and the full gallon bucket of pva ends up all over him. I tried sooooo hard not to laugh out loud but I couldn't help it, thank god he saw the funny side of it.
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Went to connect a breaker on a board that was live,put it in wrong way round and the clip shorted all 3 phases ended up frying the main isolator and taking out a 500a fuse in the sub.1ST degree burns to one hand and arm no eyebrows and a suntanned face,worst thing was I was going on holiday that afternoon.
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Best ones have got to be cutting a 6" chunk out of a gas pipe completely no way of knowing it was there. Mass panic trying to find gas meter.
Cut a 6" hole for a kitchen fan pull the drill out with the core of brick and out comes millions and millions of those little polystyrene balls that they stuff bean bags being used as wall insulation. Filled the whole kitchen up to my knees. The labourers hates me for weeks after lol
Cut a 6" hole for a kitchen fan pull the drill out with the core of brick and out comes millions and millions of those little polystyrene balls that they stuff bean bags being used as wall insulation. Filled the whole kitchen up to my knees. The labourers hates me for weeks after lol
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we did the same mnr, but at a lifeboat 3 story building at warsash, we made a hole in the brick wall on the ground floor for an armoured supply to go through on a friday
there was beaded cavity insu inside but only a bit came out
over the weekend there was a storm
we came back on monday morning to find MASSES of polystyrene beads everywhere, even on the beach and in the sea
it took ages to bag it all up
there was beaded cavity insu inside but only a bit came out
over the weekend there was a storm
we came back on monday morning to find MASSES of polystyrene beads everywhere, even on the beach and in the sea
it took ages to bag it all up
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Driving in traffic when I spotted a mate of mine up a ladder, painting the window frames of a building with his kex badly split. Honked him and started taking the p*** and laughing with my work mate. Got a fist shake and thought that was the last of it. Traffic comes to a halt about 50 yards down the road. All of a sudden, the sod appears from nowhere, white superglossed my windscreen and shot off laughing.
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I had to fit a small storage heater in a flat to a plasterboard wall was in and out fitted, wired and tested in less than an hour.
got a call from the builder later that day to say he wanted to go home and could not shut the front door.
the plasterboard wall separated the hall and the front door was left open against the wall, I did not realise the wall was only 2 inches thick so me using 3 inch screws and getting lucky finding the studs to fix to meant i had screwed the heater to the front door through the wall.
took a while to live that one down.
got a call from the builder later that day to say he wanted to go home and could not shut the front door.
the plasterboard wall separated the hall and the front door was left open against the wall, I did not realise the wall was only 2 inches thick so me using 3 inch screws and getting lucky finding the studs to fix to meant i had screwed the heater to the front door through the wall.
took a while to live that one down.
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Fixed a coolant pump on a lathe, needed, fuses, new contactor/overload, new cable and re-wound the motor, basically everything was fubbared. About a month later the lathe operator called me over when i was doing another job and said that coolant pump you fixed has stopped working. Thought oh sod it , so went over and sure enough just a dribble coming out, thought it might be down a phase so checked it very quickly and thought this is odd. So for some reason i disconnected the outlet pipe and asked the operator to start and quickly stop the pump whilst i was holding the pipe. Well a colomn of cutting oil flew up 10ft in the air and landed directly on my head, drenching me, big time. Operator had to stop work as his stomach was hurting and i disappeared off to the toilets to get cleaned up. Big laughs all round, the friggin pipe was blocked, unblocked it and all was good.
Phew - that stuff really stank. :-(
Phew - that stuff really stank. :-(
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Probably being talked out of becoming a doctor, I zoomed head first into the Motor Trade instead, and I can't help but wonder how different my life would have been had I stood my ground. I think I would have emigrated when most of my family did and had a career and family abroad. :thinking:
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Doing an annual EM test in a restaurant when a plumber asks me to disconnect a food drainage unit that he needs to unblock. I disconnected it so he could pull it away from the wall and this thing stank like hell! Full of 2 day old food, it separates hard food and liquid then pulps it into mush.
A bit later on and the plumber asks me to wire it back up so I did. Whilst I'm crouching down next to the start button I turned it on, big mistake! All the waste food in the hopper from the past two days shot up into the air, hit the ceiling and walls then gravity took over and it ended up all over me. I just stood there infront of the chef, plumber and a kitchen porter with bits of spaghetti, chicken, veg, fish bones covering every inch of me from head to toe. I even had a piece squid dangling from my glasses! I looked a right state and it stank. After all the kitchen staff, waiters and management came to have a look at what all the noise was for, I had the restaurant in stitches. They was very nice and let me use the staff room to clean up and gave me a company tee shirt. I powered up the EM lights, got into the van and went home for the hottest shower I've ever had, phoned the boss to tell him that I'll go back tomorrow to finish off the test. Every time I look at that tee shirt I swear I can smell that god awful pukey food, I'll never forget that smell.
A bit later on and the plumber asks me to wire it back up so I did. Whilst I'm crouching down next to the start button I turned it on, big mistake! All the waste food in the hopper from the past two days shot up into the air, hit the ceiling and walls then gravity took over and it ended up all over me. I just stood there infront of the chef, plumber and a kitchen porter with bits of spaghetti, chicken, veg, fish bones covering every inch of me from head to toe. I even had a piece squid dangling from my glasses! I looked a right state and it stank. After all the kitchen staff, waiters and management came to have a look at what all the noise was for, I had the restaurant in stitches. They was very nice and let me use the staff room to clean up and gave me a company tee shirt. I powered up the EM lights, got into the van and went home for the hottest shower I've ever had, phoned the boss to tell him that I'll go back tomorrow to finish off the test. Every time I look at that tee shirt I swear I can smell that god awful pukey food, I'll never forget that smell.
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Lol we've already done that
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Could be worse, I tried to get DIY Not forum to back the Fatally Flawed E-Petition. I gave up in discust!
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Worst mistakes I have made:
Picked up a soldering iron with my hand, on the element, while...still....hot ¬_¬
Found a strange chip, looked at it, held it, found out it was static sensitive......poof!....gone :'(
7805 voltage regulator, output voltage was not correct, maybe turning up the input voltage will help! Hang on, heat? oh, connected wrong way round, the 7805 never worked again.
Memory chip in old commodore 64, took em out and replaced with a single 64KB memory chip, turns out it was a PLA problem, memory was fine >:|
Picked up a soldering iron with my hand, on the element, while...still....hot ¬_¬
Found a strange chip, looked at it, held it, found out it was static sensitive......poof!....gone :'(
7805 voltage regulator, output voltage was not correct, maybe turning up the input voltage will help! Hang on, heat? oh, connected wrong way round, the 7805 never worked again.
Memory chip in old commodore 64, took em out and replaced with a single 64KB memory chip, turns out it was a PLA problem, memory was fine >:|
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Worked live on occasions, thats a mistake is it not? I bet 99.9% of us have at some point and shouldn't really.
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Oh the good old days! remember when half the plugs you opened on jobs had foil from a smoke packet round the fuse?
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The first time l ever installed smoke alarms, l omitted the earth, (thinking that well they made of plastic so l didnt need it) until l realised once that everything was in and fully plastered that l couldnt perform a Zs reading for the certs... Duh!!!!
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Got my stihl saw out to trim some stone for me mums Dunsley boiler stove base,forgetting my mate had borrowed it previously.Checked the fuel and pull cord,never checked diamond disc was tight.Got warmed up and up to warp speed (5000 rpm) as i started the cut she jumped and set off like Usain Bolt,over junction of cul-de-sac,up kerb,over pavement main road,another kerb,off tree root along pavement past old folks home to end up rattling on deck as in cartoons.Total trip of 80 metres plus 4 PM on a weekday afternoon! Carried it back to the origin of its escape hugging it like a naughty child...
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Went to see a mate on a job he was doing in an accomadation block, Needing a 'Number 2' asked him where the toiliets were and off I went. Sat down nicely minding my own bussiness and hear 2 girls come in chatting away in the cubicles next to me. I was in the females loo!! I couldn't leave until they finished and left 20 mins later incase we walked out at the same time and I looked a perve!!
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