Tiling/ trade blunders and accidents

Tilers Forums Official Sponsors

Had to laugh at the chippie yesterday at the job I'm on at the moment .........he was so proud of his bespoke oak door frame he had just installed and proceeded to run his fingers down the edge catching a really nasty splinter which went so deep he almost went through the roof. Karma caught up with me when I dented the neighbours car. I hope he doesn't find out as I know he will take the p1ss!
 
I was 15 at the time, first job as an apprentice plumbing and heating. Leaned a bundle of 15mm copper pipe up against the wall of a house we was working on, for some reason it slid down the wall and straight through a window, a large one at that.
 
Draining a radiator, cracked the nut, wrapped rag round it and put a tray under to catch the water, went away to do something else while it drained, came back 10 mins later and the tray had moved. To this day I have no idea how it had moved, empty house, I was the only one there! the worst part is that the radiator was over a very light cream carpet
 
About a year into my career I was given a patch of tiling to do ( 6x6 white i think ) upstairs in a kitchen - Pub refurb. There was a floorboard missing about a foot from the wall , no prob says Diggy to gaffer, I'll be alright , .

I procceded to put my leg through the only part of the finished ceiling downstairs in the bar area to loud cheers . 🙂 It was that burgundy floral type wall paper too , wasn't overly popular with the decorator lol.

Diggy
 
I've been reading this thread with interest and trying to think if I've done anything dumb, I was pretty sure I hadn't but then remembered something today. Before I discovered the pro-gres grinder blade, I used to use vitrex glass cutting blades on my grinder, they gave a very clean cut but didn't last long at all. When they were worn they used to spit red hot bits of molten tile everywhere. On one occasion I was cutting inside the customers garage as it was raining outside, he had a classic motorbike which I'd covered over so it didn't get dusty. The tile I was cutting was a glass border and the hot bits were flying all over the place, I'd done my cut and took it back upstairs only to find it needed a bit more off it, back downstairs I went. I walked back into the garage to find the dust sheet covering the bike was in the early stages of an inferno, obviously caused by the grinder sparks! I quickly whipped it off the bike and dunked it in my wash bucket. If that cut had fitted first time, I wouldn't have been back outside for maybe another half an hour and I have no doubt that the house and it's contents would have burnt to the ground. A lucky escape.
 
CRIKEY ! That's a bloomer if there ever could have been one !

You can see the owner in a few years time, in the pub, when it's a laughable situation, 'Aye, I got the tiler in, he burnt me house to the ground!'
 
CRIKEY ! That's a bloomer if there ever could have been one !

You can see the owner in a few years time, in the pub, when it's a laughable situation, 'Aye, I got the tiler in, he burnt me house to the ground!'

Liability insurance claim for sure! Not covered for hot work though, does a spark from a grinder count as hot work?!?!
 
Good question, something you may want to check out, however Im sure you wont be setting things one fire in the near future !
 

Advertisement

Thread Information

Title
Tiling/ trade blunders and accidents
Prefix
N/A
Forum
Canada Tile Advice
Start date
Last reply date
Replies
67

Thread Tags

Advertisement

UK Tiling Forum

Thread statistics

Created
Qwerty,
Last reply from
One Day,
Replies
67
Views
2,055

Thread statistics

Created
Qwerty,
Last reply from
One Day,
Replies
67
Views
2,055
Back