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Fekin
Went to finish off a garage floor that I laid yesterday, just had a little grouting to do and now had a piece of trim to lay to finish off the tiles where the garage door met the floor.
Odd customer, didn't want any trim when quoting him, just finish off with grout, nearly finished job and he then wanted a trim along the tile the full width of the floor.
Couldn't use tile to floor strips as that would have pretruded under the garage door and be visible on the drive which he didn't want, so he decided on standard tile trim, but these couldn't be fitter propperly becuase the tiles had been down overnight and we're soild, so trim couldn't be slid under the tile, so I had to cut off the flat section of trim all the way along and just use the rounded side.
Out with the Stanley, brand new blade, and like a twonk I was stood there just holding the tile trim in the left hand, stanley in the right just about to score down the length of trim to cut off the flat strip, thinking this was probably a bad idea, but still went ahead anyway.
Well, first cut the blade slipped and came down in a sharp chopping motion onto my thumb, caught just where the thumb joins the hand, through the skin, through the layer of fat, through some grisely bits and I think the bone stopped it :lol:
Cut was only an inch wide, but as deep as it gets, so after a an hour in A&E was back, cut my trim propperly this time, stuck it down and left.
So that's my tip of the day, if you think what your doing is a bad idea... it most probably is
Odd customer, didn't want any trim when quoting him, just finish off with grout, nearly finished job and he then wanted a trim along the tile the full width of the floor.
Couldn't use tile to floor strips as that would have pretruded under the garage door and be visible on the drive which he didn't want, so he decided on standard tile trim, but these couldn't be fitter propperly becuase the tiles had been down overnight and we're soild, so trim couldn't be slid under the tile, so I had to cut off the flat section of trim all the way along and just use the rounded side.
Out with the Stanley, brand new blade, and like a twonk I was stood there just holding the tile trim in the left hand, stanley in the right just about to score down the length of trim to cut off the flat strip, thinking this was probably a bad idea, but still went ahead anyway.
Well, first cut the blade slipped and came down in a sharp chopping motion onto my thumb, caught just where the thumb joins the hand, through the skin, through the layer of fat, through some grisely bits and I think the bone stopped it :lol:
Cut was only an inch wide, but as deep as it gets, so after a an hour in A&E was back, cut my trim propperly this time, stuck it down and left.
So that's my tip of the day, if you think what your doing is a bad idea... it most probably is
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