Tiling/ trade blunders and accidents

[One Day]

Don't buy cheap safety glasses. You won't wear them.
Trust me: buy a decent set of anti-scratch, anti-fog Bolle or Uvex with a soft pouch you can clip on your pants.
If they're nice to wear, comfy and look ok, you'll wear them.

 

[Ttt1601]

couple of years ago, first job of the day, fit 900 x 900 shower tray, went in a treat second job, tile walls with 600 x 600 porc, no worries, couple of hours later walking in with the last cut to top corner, caught my foot on the dust sheets, tile came flying out of my hand, corner first bang center of the tray, bounced, chipped a tile on the bottom row then bounced back and outand put a big scratch across the back of the tray, i sprained my wrist and gave myself a black eye on a bucket on the way down couldnt beleive it, the customer was a legend about it if im honest, because he was standing in the hall saw the whole thing, after i had stopped swearing and he had stop wetting himself with laughter, we had a cuppa and *** and a chuckle about it together. cost me a bit of time and a new tray but it was spetaculaly clumsy distructive 3 seconds

 

[Flintstone]

I had a blunder last week whilst putting 1,400 screws in a floor, chewed up two finger tips, nasty. Right down the side of the nail with the pz2 bit at full speed on two seperate fingers!
I've had loads of small slices from cut porcelain, nothing like some of them beauty's on here tho

 

[One Day]

I put a screw through a Wedi board, clean through a pipe. (i put the pipe there!) just before xmas on a job i didn't want to do. Only found it after shower was in use because it was a pipe from the mixer to a hand wand.
Now the section of pipe is on my dashboard as a reminder of my stupidity.

 

[tommyzooom]

Talking of safety glasses, a good friend of mine, a kitchen fitter, was using a router. One of the screws was missing the anti-vibration spring, that he was "always meaning to replace". The screw vibrated out, fell onto the spindle, went straight through his prescription glasses into the eye. He sadly lost his eye.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I don't want to like that! @tommyzooom

 

[Spare Tool]

Theres always something on every job, even if you've thought to yourself"this is going well" that's the start of it.
Started a kitchen floor yesterday, on first look all seemed fine, left the front door open while I got my gear in, this in turn kicked the central heating on, one of the rads in the kitchen starts dripping, goes to nip it up with an adjustable and obviously over tightened it and the HOT water starts pouring out, managed to get a bowl under it, had to then find the drain off valve, cut down the customers garden hose and drain the system...customer comes home " yeah I noticed that was dripping last night" ffs!! Wonder what today will bring!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

@Andystiletiling Another little extra - you could have done without!

 

[J Sid]

Theres always something on every job, even if you've thought to yourself"this is going well" that's the start of it.
Started a kitchen floor yesterday, on first look all seemed fine, left the front door open while I got my gear in, this in turn kicked the central heating on, one of the rads in the kitchen starts dripping, goes to nip it up with an adjustable and obviously over tightened it and the HOT water starts pouring out, managed to get a bowl under it, had to then find the drain off valve, cut down the customers garden hose and drain the system...customer comes home " yeah I noticed that was dripping last night" ffs!! Wonder what today will bring!

didn't know you are a multi tradesperson😉

 

[Spare Tool]

didn't know you are a multi tradesperson😉

Quite clearly I'm not 🙂