Stupid mistakes

[Millsy 82]

Come on cheer me up a bit after the afternoon from hell!

I got approached by a hotel to fit a new shower, tray, screens and multi panel problem was it all has to be complete by tomorrow night, so last Tuesday I ordered all the bits being told it would be here on Thursday, it never turned up until the afternoon I'd started the job, so all went well new floor down tray in multipanel in and I thought happy days get the screens done and seal everything up should be done by 5 then a day with nothing booked in tomorrow.

I started fitting the screens and rolled back the 2 dust sheets over the tray so that I could get everything lined up lovely, drill my holes and tap the plugs in with my hammer, I put the hammer on the basin next to me and turned round to pick up the screen bracket when BANG! I turned around and there was my hammer on the tray! oops I thought until I picked it up and noticed the crack where the hammer landed claw first.

An hour frantically phoning around to get a new shower tray and obviously no one has the right sized tray!!!! Until my normal suppliers phoned back and said tomorrow lunchtime.

Thank god for that panic over I've just now got to buy a new tray!

 

[rpm]

Wont do that again will you! Learn from mistakes and move on. Once put 5 litres of clean water through a ceiling by rushing and forgot to put a rubber bung back in a tank - Does that help you feel better?

 

[Rickster123]

My days been just as bad mate. I pressed vanilla instead of caramel on the costa coffee machine this morning. Ruined my whole routine that did.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

😀 im sure we all have been there thats why hammer always goes on the floor 😀 (thats until someone stands on it )

 

[AlexGas]

That's a skinny tray...!? What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!

 

[REDSAW]

spent 2&1/2 hours coring a solid wall on monday for a boiler i dont normally fit as it has a rear flue that was specced for sitting in a cupboard, this is in kitchen of a house that is been gutted for re-fit.

put the rear flue onto boiler and lifted into position only to find the jig was upside down and hole 10'' lower than it should be!! sits nice on the counetr top though.lol

 

[townfanjon]

I could crash UKPF website with my stupid antics over the years

 

[mfgs]

spent 2&1/2 hours coring a solid wall on monday for a boiler i dont normally fit as it has a rear flue that was specced for sitting in a cupboard, this is in kitchen of a house that is been gutted for re-fit.

put the rear flue onto boiler and lifted into position only to find the jig was upside down and hole 10'' lower than it should be!! sits nice on the counetr top though.lol

I may actually pack up and go home if I did that. I would be so angry haha.

 

[1Steven]

:waving: I thought I was the only person who made mistakes!

 

[REDSAW]

:waving: I thought I was the only person who made mistakes!

i like making a mistake once in a while,..it makes me perfect.lol

 

[jonnyswamp]

My mates one always cheers me up
He was asked to fit a sink in a new position in a flat/office above a shop (IIRC)
hot and cold were close by but the waste would need to be surface run for a bit the dropped under floor between joists to external wall then down into a gully
Imagine his glee when he lifted the boards to find a 4" soil pipe directly under the proposed new sink position
The new sink was piped up in record time (waste N all) and off he went skipping down the road with a good days pay in his rrs pocket for 2 hrs work and feeling quite smug
He had a phone call later that afternoon asking if he could pop back as whenever the new sink was emptied the extractor fan in the w/c down stairs resembled a shower
Yep, the soil was in fact a duct from the toilet extractor fan and he wasn't as gleeful as earlier

And it was my mate, honest

 

[plumben]

I was on a job, turned water off in the street, ripped kitchen sink out cut pipes and fitted two ISO's went back outside and turned the main back on, stood outside for 5-10minutes as the house was a hole, walked back in to the kitchen resembling a Pond!

 

[ShaunCorbs]

forgot to turn iso off?

 

[lame plumber]

coring an aga flue in engineering hard bricks, caught a tie, knocked myself out and claret all over, only good thing, was the wifes aga. left a couple of systems with open ends but isolated from mains, gone for lunch and come back to ponds when some muppet has turned the water back on for tea!!!!! Ladder through a glass front door, and many more to boring to mention.

 

[plumben]

forgot to turn iso off?

Yeah didn't even think to check just cracked on, since then I'm always nervous turning the main back on

 

[hammers4spanner]

Said it before here

Fitted boiler in wrong house

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Said it before here

Fitted boiler in wrong house

how ? didnt the person say somthing?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Yeah didn't even think to check just cracked on, since then I'm always nervous turning the main back on

easy done just put some 1/2 blanking caps and you never have to worrie again 🙂

 

[Dotty]

I fell out of a loft while holding a bucket of water and smashed a toilet and cistern.....

 

[lame plumber]

I fell out of a loft while holding a bucket of water and smashed a toilet and cistern.....

thats a long fall for a small bloke......... you should have jumped in the bucket of water, that would have broken your fall 🙂