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[AWheating]

not had anything to bad really, a mate of mine had a bad day when he found the neighbour to the house he was working in dead sat outside on a chair.

Plumber who fitted my mothers bathroom when i was a kid took the floor up for renewal and while down at his van my dad went to the toilet...... the problem was my dad was totally blind :laugh:

 

[diamondgas]

not had anything to bad really, a mate of mine had a bad day when he found the neighbour to the house he was working in dead sat outside on a chair.

Plumber who fitted my mothers bathroom when i was a kid took the floor up for renewal and while down at his van my dad went to the toilet...... the problem was my dad was totally blind :laugh:

Ooooouch!!!!

 

[Resolute]

Yeah, we do...... 🙂

No. Just an honest plumber. True what you say.

A plumber (or any tradesman for that matter) who claims never to have made a mistake is either a liar or not very experienced - either way not someone you want carrying out work for you!

On the other hand I've fixed leaks, blockages etc and had loads of very happy customers - that's when plumbing is rewarding!

 

[hunterseye]

I was cutting through a central heating pipe after draining the system. Unfortunately it hadn't drained fully and the cutting wheel on my slice broke! Water through the ceiling whilst I panicked, got another slice and plugged the pipe with my finger!

Refilling a central heating system and hearing a gush of water and then remembering that I hadn't tightened a compression joint in a stud wall!

Washer split in a fill valve, turned water on in loft, came down to see water spraying out, ran back into loft and isolate pipe. Checked damage to see water running down the walls in the kitchen. Customer was ace, he simple said "take a seat and have a coffee and 5 mins"!

Now you'll all think I'm a rubbish plumber, but we all learn from mistakes!

No one thinks your a rubbish plumber mate. like you said. we all learn from our mistakes. my old gaffer used to say to me. " you've done nowt til you've f##### something up. Very true

 

[tamz]

A plumber (or any tradesman for that matter) who claims never to have made a mistake is either a liar or not very experienced - either way not someone you want carrying out work for you!

On the other hand I've fixed leaks, blockages etc and had loads of very happy customers - that's when plumbing is rewarding!

I've left leaks, caused blockages, brought down ceilings, flooded houses, chipped furniture had a few unhappy customers and i once threw a cat out an upstairs window. You learn from your mistakes. Even the cat learned not to brush against me again :lol:

 

[tamz]

Ive read that too tamz!! Tamz.... U R A LEGEND! That is 1 hell of a awsum story!! Was laughing and had to read the story to the missus!

Aye, laugh at the old plumber :lol: It is funny as f now but it wasn't when i was a boy standing there with the toilet paper and turds hanging from me :lol: :lol:

 

[diamondgas]

I bet it wasn't tamz! I'd have been scared sh-i-t-less!! 🙂

 

[Phil]

Aye, laugh at the old plumber :lol: It is funny as f now but it wasn't when i was a boy standing there with the toilet paper and turds hanging from me :lol: :lol:

I think I can still smell you from here Tamz, any chance of a courtesy shower? :rofl:

 

[Resolute]

I've left leaks, caused blockages, brought down ceilings, flooded houses, chipped furniture had a few unhappy customers and i once threw a cat out an upstairs window. You learn from your mistakes. Even the cat learned not to brush against me again :lol:

I've not yet brought down a ceiling or flooded a house fully so I'm still learning!

Playing with meters for now, shocking how badly some are installed though!

 

[tamz]

I've not yet brought down a ceiling or flooded a house fully so I'm still learning!

Don't worry you will someday :wink:

 

[Koogatubac]

Aye, laugh at the old plumber :lol: It is funny as f now but it wasn't when i was a boy standing there with the toilet paper and turds hanging from me :lol: :lol:

Ur awsum tamz, bet ull be great to work alongside. I wouldnt be doing any plumbing ill be like a kid hearing off the storyteller. Haha i could actually picture you thinking "s***!" when you removed that blockage in the drain pipe 🙂

 

[diamondgas]

I've not yet brought down a ceiling or flooded a house fully so I'm still learning!

Playing with meters for now, shocking how badly some are installed though!

Only thing you've got to worry about is leaving someone with no heating in the freezing cold come the winter then eh? lol 🙂

 

[Resolute]

Only thing you've got to worry about is leaving someone with no heating in the freezing cold come the winter then eh? lol 🙂

I'll leave them a portable fan heater?!?

I donate cutting people off but it goes with the job, I'd hate it even more to leave something dangerous and someone get hurt!

 

[tamz]

Haha i could actually picture you thinking "s***!" when you removed that blockage in the drain pipe 🙂

I wasn't thinking it i was shouting it while thinking i hope i can swim in shyte :lol:

 

[Resolute]

Don't worry you will someday :wink:

Cheers Tamz, learn something new all the time. Wanna grow old with some stories to tell that's for sure!

 

[Phil]

Guys who work in factory's really know how to dump, they save it up and make an event out of it.
I used to work with a guy 'big Kenny' when he went it everyone hanging around inside came straight out.

 

[diamondgas]

I'll leave them a portable fan heater?!?

I donate cutting people off but it goes with the job, I'd hate it even more to leave something dangerous and someone get hurt!

Just had my meters converted to the 'smart' metering today and was quizing the guy on his quals ... shocking that they don't involve appliances!!!! Leaves them no alternative than to turn off if they can't light the pilot! That's British Gas For You!!! 🙂

 

[villa_tom]

I was on the way home one Friday when the office phoned and asked if I could squeeze in an extra job. It was only a leaky rad in an old people's sheltered flat type place around the corner from me.

I got to the flat and the warden was there, she said the carpet was ringing wet under the rad in the lounge. On inspection I saw it was absolutely ringing wet. So being a Friday and two mins from home I just sat in the wet carpet and checked the rad valves, they where sound. I sat there puzzled, and then the smell hit me, the old boy had just decided to take the biggest wee all over the floor, and yours truly was sitting in it.

I told the warden and ran to the van and went home for a bath.

 

[tamz]

I told the warden and ran to the van and went home for a bath.

You should have just bought a couple of magic trees and gone straight to the pub. It would have dried :lol:

 

[Resolute]

Just had my meters converted to the 'smart' metering today and was quizing the guy on his quals ... shocking that they don't involve appliances!!!! Leaves them no alternative than to turn off if they can't light the pilot! That's British Gas For You!!! 🙂

It's not brilliant but they can get out service and repair to sort it. Where about are you DG?
Stupid thing is that they do train you on flues, ventilation etc and wouldn't take much more to do appliances!

 

[Phil]

I was on the way home one Friday when the office phoned and asked if I could squeeze in an extra job. It was only a leaky rad in an old people's sheltered flat type place around the corner from me.

I got to the flat and the warden was there, she said the carpet was ringing wet under the rad in the lounge. On inspection I saw it was absolutely ringing wet. So being a Friday and two mins from home I just sat in the wet carpet and checked the rad valves, they where sound. I sat there puzzled, and then the smell hit me, the old boy had just decided to take the biggest wee all over the floor, and yours truly was sitting in it.

I told the warden and ran to the van and went home for a bath.

That's a good one, the one time to actually want to be sat in black rad water.

 

[diamondgas]

It's not brilliant but they can get out service and repair to sort it. Where about are you DG?
Stupid thing is that they do train you on flues, ventilation etc and wouldn't take much more to do appliances!

Newcastle .. got a phone call regards changing te meters and thought, yeh go for it! 🙂 The Engineer use to work for a sub contract company BG bought out! Now he works for them ... consiquently his CCN1 has been reduced? .. *sigh* I think that's sad!!!

Hower it detracts from the op's post 🙂

 

[Centralheatking]

Installing a washing machine point upstairs in Lady A***'s house Bath. I am up in a small roof void in downstairs bog connecting up the waste, in comes Lady A, doesnt see my boots danglin down, she then (I didnt look) drops her undies does a huge fart and has a pee without seein me. Sound of bog flushing and off she goes still without seein me.

centralheatking

 

[hunterseye]

Installing a washing machine point upstairs in Lady A***'s house Bath. I am up in a small roof void in downstairs bog connecting up the waste, in comes Lady A, doesnt see my boots danglin down, she then (I didnt look) drops her undies does a huge fart and has a pee without seein me. Sound of bog flushing and off she goes still without seein me.

centralheatking

HAHAHA Classic. Can't stop laughing now

 

[GasmanxxxR1]

Cut what i thought was the primary flow to a boiler mate thermal store......

It was'nt primary flow, 28mm plastic....

Cold mains, got a bit wet that day

 

[petercj]

I was on the way home one Friday when the office phoned and asked if I could squeeze in an extra job. It was only a leaky rad in an old people's sheltered flat type place around the corner from me.

I got to the flat and the warden was there, she said the carpet was ringing wet under the rad in the lounge. On inspection I saw it was absolutely ringing wet. So being a Friday and two mins from home I just sat in the wet carpet and checked the rad valves, they where sound. I sat there puzzled, and then the smell hit me, the old boy had just decided to take the biggest wee all over the floor, and yours truly was sitting in it.

I told the warden and ran to the van and went home for a bath.

She should have called in a urologist, not a plumber! LMAO at your post ... magic! lol

 

[PlumbersMate]

My fave thread ever! Lol haven't done anything too outrageous YET! Few spills on carpets etc my time as duct fitter was different near death experiences everyday but it just felt normal. Looking back tho was ridiculous the things we done for a few quid!! Bloke I've worked with says if you've had no leaks you ain't working hard enough

 

[Phil]

What makes me shake with fear is not the disasters behind you but the ones in front!

 

[stevetheplumber]

spindle of a valve came out in my hand hot water 6th floor of great ormand st hospital

 

[Guest123]

I had a apprentice who crossed the 15mm gas line under the floor with the 15mm water main.

Last I heard he is now a dentist.

 

[Destroyer2813]

I had a apprentice who crossed the 15mm gas line under the floor with the 15mm water main.

Last I heard he is now a dentist.

Probably ripping the wrong teeth out know instead

 

[TBServices]

I was once working in a residential care home for special needs people, to repair a toilet. Went in to wetroom, removed cistern from pan, twisted to side and started to remove siphon from toilet. Turned back round to the side to find a half naked old mental patient taking a dump on the toilet I'd just taken to bits.

I didn't know what to do other than run out shouting HELP! The response I got was a care nurse sprinting down the hall, shouting "BRENDA!!! PUT YOUR PANTS BACK ON RIGHT NOW!"

Scarred for life.

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[kay-jay]

I was once working in a residential care home for special needs people, to repair a toilet. Went in to wetroom, removed cistern from pan, twisted to side and started to remove siphon from toilet. Turned back round to the side to find a half naked old mental patient taking a dump on the toilet I'd just taken to bits.

I didn't know what to do other than run out shouting HELP! The response I got was a care nurse sprinting down the hall, shouting "BRENDA!!! PUT YOUR F***ING PANTS BACK ON RIGHT NOW!"

Scarred for life.

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Lmfao @this

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[Phil]

I was once working in a residential care home for special needs people, to repair a toilet. Went in to wetroom, removed cistern from pan, twisted to side and started to remove siphon from toilet. Turned back round to the side to find a half naked old mental patient taking a dump on the toilet I'd just taken to bits.

I didn't know what to do other than run out shouting HELP! The response I got was a care nurse sprinting down the hall, shouting "BRENDA!!! PUT YOUR F***ING PANTS BACK ON RIGHT NOW!"

Scarred for life.

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Ha Ha Ha! Hilarious...not the metal patient but the situation.

:rofl:

 

[TBServices]

Ha Ha Ha! Hilarious...not the metal patient but the situation.

:rofl:

I've worked in loads of these places, and some of the people I've met, and situations I've been in are crazy. Too many to list. This example was the first time I'd ever worked in a mental home too lol


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