Why is it always the easy ones?

[Mike Jackson]

Just drill a 4" hole through this lightweight block wall for an extractor fan. No problem says I. 2 hours later my core bit was well and truly stuck in the saturated wall. Core drill wouldn't shift it, took the drill of and tried tapping it about to loosen it, no joy. Tried to spin it with a spanner, no joy. Even the 18" Bahco wouldn't move it. Tried a socket on it, still no movement. Starting to get desperate now I was scratching my head, perhaps I should just leave it in place and pug it up. I was contemplating running a drill alongside it and breaking in from the outside but that would mean Shute loads of making good.

Finally it came to me. I got my 18v 1/2" impact wrench out of the wagon. I stuck it in there after getting a puncture and having to undo the wheel nuts manually, far too much like hard work. I stuck an 11mm impact socket on it and put it over the end of the core shaft. Finally the core moved and I managed to get the thing out. Never thought I'd get a core bit so badly stuck in lightweight blocks that I'd have to use an impact wrench to remove it.

 

[mutley racers]

You are having a great couple of weeks a mike. I have not had one that bad before. I tend to clear mine about every 10 seconds or so. Seems to help a bit

 

[Leo21]

Thermalites and core dills don't mix! I've had them stick before but not to that extent.

 

[Roger Welton]

Every core I seem to do at the moment seems to be nightmare, stone and brick alike are all saturated and bind the can up 🙁 roll on the summer.

 

[Irish]

Yeah thermalites are a real pain especially when wet!

 

[WaterTight]

A stuck core is just about the least fun you can have in this job. While freeing it up you have your most sincere daydreams about jacking the whole job in.

 

[Ermintrude]

My favourite part of this job is snapping drill off in wall.

 

[WaterTight]

Breaking a hole in a bath is my favourite so far. I did a merry jig and let off a party popper.

 

[Ermintrude]

Breaking a hole in a bath is my favourite so far. I did a merry jig and let off a party popper.

When changing a tap on a combi swap!

 

[jonnyswamp]

Whilst working in a pub the landlord asked us to tighten a tap in the gents, so sent the apprentice in with a tap spanner and he promptly put a whole through the back of it, an old ideal standard which I couldn't match with the other basin that was there, ended up replacing both basins,taps,waste etc at my expense
Fecking tamping

 

[lame plumber]

last core i jammed in meant i had to pop off and buy a bigger one, then drilled over the stop of the stuck one for a while, which allowed me to retrieve the jammed one eventually. Only took 3 hours or so.

 

[WaterTight]

last core i jammed in meant i had to pop off and buy a bigger one, then drilled over the stop of the stuck one for a while, which allowed me to retrieve the jammed one eventually. Only took 3 hours or so.

jesus christ. this job.