Tiling/ trade blunders and accidents

[Qwerty]

I was packing away tools yesterday at 6pm on the driveway of a wet room I'm working on at the mo. I always pride myself on never having had any serious accidents or blunders, but I went and did it yesterday. Loading my dewalt d24000 into the van when I lost grip of the stand as I tried to manoeuvre it in from an angle. The pointed metal feet (all 4) slammed straight into the next door neighbours new vauxhall Astra side door! Needless to say I couldn't deny it 🙁

Looks like I'm phoning my insurance company then.

What accidents or blunders have people had?

I put this in the arms so out of the way if customers! 😉

 

[gamma38]

This should be a good thread.

 

[Del W]

Moving a length of 4 x 2....straight though a window ! opps

 

[bugs183]

We were tiling a swimming pool and watched the glazer drop a tee-shaped profile into the pool, just as the customer walked in with cups of tea.
'Is it ok, she asked?', 'oh yea' said the glazer.
Needless to say the pool emptied to the level of a tee shaped cut in the liner! ooopsy.

Now what have i done:
Having done a lovely floor in Bangor and gripping the cheque in my hand i reversed quickly up the steep drive, straight into one of those stupid nib brick walls you can't see. I gave him his cheque back! Ironically he had it rebuilt and then knocked it over himself!
My dad was grouting a shower and just as he said 'oh this is going well' he dropped his trowel and it stuck straight into the shower tray.

 

[afright]

In my younger days I was polishing a big terrazzo supermarket floor with the wet polisher the cable pulled tight so giving it a big tug,there was an almighty crash looked round and saw the painter and paint laying on the floor he was covered in paint,what had happened was the cable had wrapped around his ladders, needless to say he did not have a clue what I had done.

 

[Pebbs]

Dropped my tape measure on a job, and knocked myself out...didnt see the scaffold bar. I had a bit of a hum dinger of a headache, for a few days, in the end I went to the doctors for some painkillers, who then sent me to the hospital for an xray...I had only gone and fractured my skull! Then I put my hand under a circular saw one day (dont ask why, I have these 'blonde' moments) and was rushed up the hospital for micro surgery....the list goes on...then there was the time I ran up the stairs bearfooted and felt a sharp sting in my foot...yes it was sharp all right, a carpet tack had embedded it self in my foot, it was ok though my brother got the pilers and pulled it out! Two weeks ago I gashed my knee open on the corner of some portland stone, I am a walking disaster somedays....most days come to think of it.

Pebbs

 

[dave l and l]

damaged a couple of baths through my own clumsiness,cost me a few fair bob to sort.
yesterday painter was climbing out on scaffold and he dropped full can of oil based white primer down the sandstone wall six hours he scrubbed and scrubbed but to no avail,

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Thought id be cheeky and left my trainers on when on site and ended up standing on a nail. Went straight through my foot and rhen went straight to hospital

 

[cam_low]

Walked into the customers house to start the rip out after plumber had fitted tray.
Looking around on where to start I sent the help to get the dust sheets. Whilst he was away I touched a tile...literally. ..and it fell...corner first into the tray. Luckily im a dab hand with the repair kit and have a few shades of white courtesy of a friend in a paint shop. 🙂

 

[John Benton]

Actually posted a small incident a few weeks ago that happened to me with a chopsaw. The shape of the piece of wood I was trying to cut wouldn't enable the guard to lift as the blade started cutting so I held it up manually which meant my arm had to hold the wood across/underneath the blade. As it started cutting it grabbed the wood and took my arm in a bit and also the blade down onto my arm!!! New blade meant it was a lovely clean cut and it's healed lovely.