warning to all tilers old and new!

[brummie tiler]

Hi everybody, just thought i would share some bad new with you all and hopefully stop anybody else making the same painfull mistake as me.
Ok, here goes. I started a job yesterday which was supposed to last for 3 weeks. It was a resteraunt, work involved was 3 sets of toilets, kitchen area, entranceway all mostly fully tiled ,floors and walls. As you can imagine i was fairley excited as this was probably my biggest job to date. Cue bad luck. As the day wore on the breaking handle on my rubi seemed to be playing up and i eventually realized that it was bent from overuse and i would need to get another one, As it was about 3pm i thought i would leave it until the morning to go and buy another so what i did was score the tiles and break them on the edge of my cutter with my hand, they were only ceramic and this worked pretty well until..... one of the tiles broke at a sharp angle, thus going straight through the middle of my hand leaving me with a hole the size of a 50 pence piece just underneath my thumb and blood squirting out like a water fountain. im now due to have an operation in the next 2 days to repair the severed muscles in my hand.:sad_smile::sad_smile: So if this post stops anybody else from doing the same i will have done my bit..... thnx for listening.

'depressed brummie tiler'

 

[BrhTiling]

ouch, sounds nasty, I hope you get it sorted ASAP.

However, if you need someone to finish the job off for you....

 

[Dan]

We always used to say, snap the tile with the tile break facing away from you using your fingers, not slamming the back of the score on an object forcing the cut (razor sharp, glass-type glaze effect) to skim your hand/palm/wrist and chopping bits of like a kebab.

Really really nasty sharp tiles are.

Hope you're back on the tools soon mate, if not already. (I've worked with a broken hand before and then as soon as it was plastered I was shaping the plaster cast to fit my tools.)

Get Well Soon :thumbs_up:
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P.s..... suppose we'll be seing you on the forums a bit more for a few days then. And I bet it took you ages to type that with a stinging arm. lol

 

[brummie tiler]

brh tiling can you pm me your number coz the guy is looking for somebody else. the job is in hall green, birmingham if you know those parts?

Going to be back on the tools asap, although something like this happening makes you take a step back, i will always be making sure im working safely from now on. I guess i was a bit ignorant to alot of safety issues b4. oh well lesson learned.

 

[Fekin]

Bad luck there mate.

Get well soon :happy:

 

[Alan.P]

Sorry to hear of your accident mate, I've just come back from Falmouth, a nice 500 +m2 job that I did for my brother and his business partner, the reason I'm telling you this is because his partener lost an arm 2 years ago in a car accident. You wanna see this guy go, he has a prostetic limb from just below the elbow with twin metal hooks that look and work like your middle and index fingers. There isn't much he can't do, very few exeptions, chin up mate

 

[DHTiling]

tut tut you wont do that again will you :icon9: :icon9:
get well soon mate............

 

[formula one]

Get well soon mate :icon9:

 

[CJ]

How many bods have done the same?

My sore old trick is with thick porcelain that the rubi breaker can't handle.

Score the tile and break over ya knee.......then scream cos it hurts.

Then take ya time laying it to let ya sore knee get better............Then do it again:sad_smile:

Sad really the habits you get into ?

 

[Deleted member 15]

get yourself a sigma, you'll never have that problem again.

 

[The_Master]

How many bods have done the same?

My sore old trick is with thick porcelain that the rubi breaker can't handle.

Score the tile and break over ya knee.......then scream cos it hurts.

Then take ya time laying it to let ya sore knee get better............Then do it again:sad_smile:

Sad really the habits you get into ?

get a sigma, no problems, i did the same thing but not to that extent cutting like a U shaped tile then went to snap it the full thing broke into 2 points which stuck into my hands, they where like stigmata lol exactelly the same spot in the middle of 2 hands that was fun tiling for the rest of the day lol, hope the hands alright m8

 

[martyn]

Hi m8 sorry to hear the bad news and i hope you get better soon but do you need someone to carry on with the job for you lol:wink_smile: only pulling ya leg hope all goes well for you soon.
mart

 

[Sean Garford]

Sorry to hear that, get well soon mate! i have done a couple of silly things to not nice!! Sean

 

[IvegotsTILE]

Get well soon mate that sounds a right *******!
I was an industrial roofer a few years ago,me and my mate were on a roof(B&Q size)he was cutting metal sheets with a grinder when he lost control and cut straight across his thigh,it wasn't much fun trying to carry him down:icon9:

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Nasty! I've been there when I was pulling down a shower enclosure with a claw hammer and I dragged my wrist over a broken tile. I was like that bit in Terminator when Arnie opened his wrist up. Drove myself to A&E and everything.

 

[Flintstone]

10 year old thread right here, hope he's healed up!

I've had a few slices doing the exact same thing, snapping tiles with my hands but nothing too bad, porcelain are lethal if you aren't careful. No good for a glory hole!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Met a plumber on a job who had almost a complete soil stack shape on his forehead. Pulling down a metal stack and it fell straight on him! He drove himself to the A&E.
I've only stabbed myself with a raking cut in the stomach. About the same time as this thread started.

 

[Lou]

Ugh wish I never read this!!!

 

[Andy Allen]

I got 12 stitches in my arm where I stood backwards to admire my fantastic tiling, tripped over the sigma onto a rusty nail sticking out the wall........put a lovely tear in my arm !!!

 

[Lou]

I had my heel bone cut off, moved and then screwed back in then the screw removed but it wasn't a work accident lol

 

[Qwerty]

I got 12 stitches in my arm where I stood backwards to admire my fantastic tiling, tripped over the sigma onto a rusty nail sticking out the wall........put a lovely tear in my arm !!!

Wouldn't have happened with a Rubi!......





















.........you could have impaled yourself on a rusty cutter instead and just left the nail out of the equation!!

 

[Andy Allen]

If I tripped on a Rubi it would of just broke and I would of been fine..

 

[Spacey]

You want to try sticking a Stanley blade in your self

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Oooohhhww!

I'll say this though Spacey, for those of us who have accidecntly cut our wrists open the skin is far thicker that you would have thought. Which is good.
Cutting and it slipped were you?

 

[Qwerty]

You want to try sticking a Stanley blade in your self View attachment 90038

No I really don't!!! Been there, done that! At least a stanley cut can be stitched.