Ever damaged anything at work?

[Qwerty]

There is some corkers there @Ray TT @ Porcel-Thin

The only fools and horses 'chandelier' sketch sprung to mind when I read your post! 😀....

 

[Spare Tool]

It was awesome. He matched the colour, filled it, cured with UV then sanded it and polished it.
Completely invisible. The customer watched and was very happy. I was happiest though 🙂

Who do you use Imp? I dropped a trowel on this tray other week, corner of it went straight through dust sheet and chipped it
That was the plumbers effort at sticking chip back in with superglue 🙁
Told customer and tbh he was totally cool about it and just said oh well accidents happen.
I would like to get it repaired for him though if you could let me know who you use @impish..

 

[One Day]

Who do you use Imp? I dropped a trowel on this tray other week, corner of it went straight through dust sheet and chipped itView attachment 83548
That was the plumbers effort at sticking chip back in with superglue 🙁
Told customer and tbh he was totally cool about it and just said oh well accidents happen.
I would like to get it repaired for him though if you could let me know who you use @impish..

Texting you now Andy... Remember that shower tray at the site at earsby? That must be 8years ago?!

 

[Italy]

strike for me,
gate photocell
It was hidden in the hedge.
-45€

 

[Kyle Knowles]

I cover everything and use some ply or plasterboard and sheets to protect stuff I'm taking zero chances

 

[Spare Tool]

Texting you now Andy... Remember that shower tray at the site at earsby? That must be 8years ago?!

I'd forgotten about that, cheers 🙂

 

[Italy]

+/- 25 years ago.
first bath tub in fiberglass, which I saw.
placed over lit cigarette.
as I used to with cast iron bathtub 🙁🙁

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Working doing a bathroom in winter, heating on full. The old boiler was chugging away and had a faulty high limit stat. All rads were so hot you couldn't put your hand on them.
The chipboard floor in the bathroom had a mound on it as one of the joists was 15mm higher than the rest so after ripping up all the chipboard I had the job of planing down the joist with my electric planner, I was fully aware of the red hot 22mm heating pipes passing through a notch in the joist and was well clear of them, yes you guessed it, my planner hit a hard knot in the wood and juddered back grinding a slot through one of the pipes.

What happend next was sheer panic and stupidity, in hindsight I should have just let scalding water pour through the ceiling into the kitchen but i grabbed the pipe with my bare hand to try and stop the flow (not realising through adreneline I was burning the skin off my palm as well as cutting it on the jagged copper) and then cutting the damaged section out with a pipe slice and wacking a stop end on each side.

I managed to do this in the time it took my customers to run up the stairs to see what was going on, there was steam in the room and I was in shock, bleeding and badly burnt, they had to drive me to A&E with me in agony.

That's one way to ruin your day! I didn't realise till later the water had burnt the side of my face as well, the blisters were unbelievable.

 

[LM]

Most of those seem to be eye sight Ray lol

were do you start with this 🙂 well took a shower valve off the wall sliped tray gone a stone one .
took bathroom door off to trim down talking to the client took 30 mm off the top not the bottom😕
went to site said i was the tiler tiled a public toilet there then the boss rang why have you not been to site
i have been its finnished ?well i should have been on the other side of the road wrong site .😱
cutting ply to size i put it on the clients garden table lovely cut only problem when i lifted the ply
the table fell in half .help to lift grannit work top snaps in half goes straight through new oven glass door
tiling bathroom went to talk to chippie walk in to room floor board comes up foot goes down takes out a complete Victorian ceiling plus lighting rose and my nuts 😳 well went to site went to basement to look at bathroom stepped over uncovered drain 6 ft deep to look at water leaking from open stack pipe .at that moment some one had a dump on the top floor flushed the toilet it came out of that pipe like a ffin torepeadeo hit me
spot on knocked me back straight down the 6 ft deep man hole .covered in you know what.
the kitchen extractor looked a little out of level gave it a little twist came off the wall glass hob gone .
thinking about this you are one lucky man

Laughing my *** off reading this straight out of Only Fools And Horses lol

 

[Spare Tool]

Did a 600 brickbond floor a couple of years ago...kitchen that ran into a down stairs cloakroom toilet, took the loo out, tiled the floor then went to put the loo back in and the in feed was an inch short of reaching the loo, went to plumbers merchants for an inch of plastic and all they could sell me was 25meters....YES thsts a 25m roll for the inch I needed 🙁 ended up buying a couple of insert connectors to make up the inch, cut pipe stuck in in inserts and it reached the toilet, turned water back on and one of the inserts is seeping water, turned water off, took loo back out and stood it against kitchen wall, so I'm messing about on my knees with insert connections and all I hear is the toilet slide down the kitchen wall and smash into pieces all over the kitchen floor 🙁 I tell that story to almost every customer that expects me to do any plumbing work...it has the desired effect every time 😉