Tiling/ trade blunders and accidents

[cam_low]

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!'

 

[Ian]

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?!?!

 

[cam_low]

Good question, something you may want to check out, however Im sure you wont be setting things one fire in the near future !

 

[White Room]

You don't things in halfs Bri:yikes:

 

[Ian]

You don't things in halfs Bri:yikes:

So, so lucky! Another 10 mins and I'd have been calling fireman Sam :lol:

 

[cam_low]

Then postman pat would have been at your door with a few bills !

 

[MTiler]

Apart from putting screws through water pipes, twice, I managed to break the corner off a customers bathroom sink, I was mortified. I was working above it and just as I was thinking that i should cover it I dropped the hammer. The customer was fine about it, and it worked out for the best because I had to somehow cover a mass of pipes and suggested getting a new sink with a vanity unit attached, I just paid for the new sink. It worked a treat and the customer was a happy bunny.

 

[White Room]

The garage must of stunk to high heaven.....

 

[Ian]

The garage must of stunk to high heaven.....

It must have been about 4 years ago now, I can't really remember. I do recall the dust sheet having a very big hole in it :lol:

 

[CJ]

Those dust sheets do catch fire rather easily.


I had a Bedford Rascal van in my earlier years. On my way to a job, on a hot day. Both front windows open......and 2 small windows in back open.

Me having a smoke on my way home.......flicked my butt out of the window, (or so I thought) and carried on. 10 mins later I had passing motorists beeping me. I couldn't work out why. Until I glanced into my 1 and only functional wing mirror. My large dust sheet had been smouldering away, kicking out rather a lot of smoke, which was being dragged out of the back windows. I thought the smell was coming from the fields. (Lot of stubble burning going on)

God knows wot it looked like from behind, I imagine peeps thought I was on fire.

This is the same van I had to pee into.........but that's another story.

Well.....it's work related. :mad2:

 

[On one]

Those dust sheets do catch fire rather easily.


I had a Bedford Rascal van in my earlier years. On my way to a job, on a hot day. Both front windows open......and 2 small windows in back open.

Me having a smoke on my way home.......flicked my butt out of the window, (or so I thought) and carried on. 10 mins later I had passing motorists beeping me. I couldn't work out why. Until I glanced into my 1 and only functional wing mirror. My large dust sheet had been smouldering away, kicking out rather a lot of smoke, which was being dragged out of the back windows. I thought the smell was coming from the fields. (Lot of stubble burning going on)

God knows wot it looked like from behind, I imagine peeps thought I was on fire.

This is the same van I had to pee into.........but that's another story.

Well.....it's work related. :mad2:

On a similar note I know of someone who flicked their used tab end out of a train carriage window...........it blew down the side of the train....and re entered the train via another open window down the carriage and landed on someones lap!!!!

 

[On one]

Just had one tonight!!!! I have been painting the house today and took the cast iron downpipes off to make painting the house and painting the downpipes easier. When the missus got back from work tonight I said don't let the water out of the bath because the downpipes weren't dry enough to refit.........forgetting that I had just had a shower!!!!!! the result being Cornish cream masonary paint being washed off the wall onto the decking...doh!

 

[Qwerty]

Went and drilled my finger today. The drill bit was red hot so cauterized it instantly. Doughnut!!!

 

[Old Mod]

That's dead centre Geoff! Well done!
Hope that was more luck than judgement haha
Plonker!

 

[Spud]

Kicked over buckets of water , stepped off hop ups straight into the adhesive , worst one was Knocking over a bottle of meths onto a 3 thousand pounds carpet when I was an apprentice how I didn't get sacked for that one I don't know