Mistakes!

[BBV]

Has anyone messed up so badly they wanted to cry?

I was doing the finishing touches to a bathroom today. I had fit all the sanitary ware, swept the bathroom...... all I had left was the shower enclosure, one of my pet hates, anyway I fit the guides/tracks to either wall, slotted both bits of glass in, connected both bits of glass together with two corner brackets. It was the type with two sliding doors. I connected the rollers to the glass doors slotted top and bottom rollers into the tracks. So far so good! All I had to left was to fit one more door, sillicone and I was gone! I was really struggling to get the rollers in on the second door, Finally manged to slot the bottom two in, but the top two were being a nightmare. I started to get annoyed. I started wiggling the rollers in with a bit too much force and then the "toughened Glass door" shattered into a million pieces all over the beautifully white, scratch-less shower tray and scattered all over the nice tiled bathroom floor........

I actually had a little cry....

Please can someone make me feel better by topping that story?

Sorry for the essay.

P.S They are sending a new door out next week. I told them it had a crack in it that I hadn't noticed when unpacking. Lucky me!!

 

[dontknowitall]

The person who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

It's horrible when something like this happens but most of us are human and realise that things go wrong. The most important thing is how you deal with it.

 

[PowerFlusher2]

The person who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

It's horrible when something like this happens but most of us are human and realise that things go wrong. The most important thing is how you deal with it.

The only other possibility is that he or she isn't doing anything!

 

[Alpha man]

I've made a few in my time!

 

[dancinplumba]

But To few to mention...........then I did it My Way 🙂

 

[RPG 80]

sheared off the spindle on a seized three way zone valve, whilst trying to free it up, at 1630 on a Friday afternoon, oh how i laughed

 

[mutley racers]

1st day of my apprenticeship my boss got me to cut a bit of ply using his festool track saw and guide, he says, use it the correct way and not like my last apprentice who cut right into it. What did I do, cut down one way, then just turned saw around to go back down, OOOOPSY. Man, I thought it was my last day to. He was cool as it wasn't that bad. Still usable any way

 

[mutley racers]

also, when training, was pressure testing new carcass and forgot to disconnect meter. Kept wondering why i was getting a drop. He called the grid and blamed it on polish. Changed no problem

 

[Pipedream]

The person who does not make any mistakes is a liar.

When I get home after one of my many mistakes and whinge to my lovely wife, she usually says ' so who died ? ' and everything comes back into perspective.

So, a shower door needs replacing, a tap connector is leaking, etc, etc, etc... Life goes on.

Does anyone think that their customers never make mistakes in their occupation ?

The trick is to turn the disaster into an opportunity, by dealing with it quickly and honestly. I have had repeat business from customers when I have got things wrong, told them so and put it right. Its called good customer service.

That is all

 

[plumber0808]

The most important thing is how you deal with it.

Oh Yes it was already scratched/broken/got a hole in it/half missing/defective/pulverized/dismembered as soon as I took it out the box.

can I have a replacement please 🙂

 

[Killy Bing]

While ripping out a bathroom in a block of flats in maidstone, the window woulden't open much, after being in the dust and having a tile cut the back of my arm pretty badly. Being the irritable little hobbit that i am i decided the dust was the most annoying thing in my life at that moment.

decided to open the window forcefully!
Oh i didnt break it!
I sent it flying out of the opening onto the brand spanking new ford focus below!

damn idiot only used mastic to fit it.........

 

[Dotty]

4 of us were manhandling a large A.O.Smith gas fired water heater off a trailer in the back of beyond when the staging I thought would help us gave way, throwing the gfwh towards me. I managed to shoulder it out the way and control the fall. Took a chunk out of my forearm on its way down though.

The only damage to the heater was a buckled control section casing. Luckily we own a fabrication company who knocked me up a new cover within a day.

 

[BBV]

Haha, cheers for the replies. That has cheered me up loads. Just got to forget it and move on!

 

[CXR100]

filled a heating system up when i was an apprentce after draining down , wonderd why the pressure wasnt rising, one of the bleed vents were still open!!!! bad times!!!!!!!! also cracked a bath in a chalet whilst trying to replace cladding, it wasnt a standard size, we had a hell of a job to find a new one!!! also whilst sinking a electrical box i sunk it too muck , had a square hole thru from kitchen to the living room! come to think of it i probably wasa nighmare of an aprentice!!

 

[CMcM]

Doing a kitchen cored the hole for taps the granite sink in the wrong place... that was a STUPID mistake, but all the other ones are honest mistakes. Not just the installers make the mistakes we have office staff that constantly give us worng address order up worng materials and ofcourse never get the wages/over time right. :wink:

 

[CXR100]

just remebered now coring thur a gas pipe , not my fault at all as it was in the CAVITY!!!!! but hey boy did i panic!!! had to sit in the van for 3 hours to wait for out gas engineer to arive to move it!!! that was the first hole i did with the new hilti core drill!!!

 

[northcarr]

I was fitting a wall cabinet in a bathroom started to drill with my mate talking to me drill on sds, bang stright through the wall into the bedroom celcon blocks the other walls enginering bricks lol. There happend to be a poster on the otherside of the wall about 3 inch away so it seamed like a good idea to move it a touch.

 

[nicro3]

The man who never made a mistake, never made anything.

 

[SimonG]

Chit happens, it's how you deal with it.

 

[stevetheplumber]

as an apprentice i kangoed through a wall and found myself in the flat next door instead of the bedroom cheap old place just of kensington high st