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May 10, 2020 14:24:52 GMT 1
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Post by veg on May 10, 2020 14:24:52 GMT 1
So due to lock down I have been doing loads of diy, painting, plastering, tiling etc finally finished my downstairs loo/dogs room/cloak room needed door hanging skirting board tiling etc, the tiles were bloody expensive and hand made so Not uniform size which goes with the walls that are completely unsquare this is an old Cottage. Final job was to hang 2 large photographic portraits of our dogs. Normally I would check for electric and water pipes if I were concerned, as it was 4feet into the room nowhere near a drop or pipe thought I was fine. Get 10 mm in and buggery f**king bollox straight through main water supply. So it’s ruined the floor, newly plastered wall and newly tiled wall as well as flooding the room etc severely pissed off. Just feckin angry. Now got to claim insurance, had to cap water and drain off radiators at the outside boiler, plumber coming round tomorrow. Ffs
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Post by Yogi on May 10, 2020 14:31:05 GMT 1
Ouch that’s a kick in the ginger plums mate 😩
Lucky you hadn’t painted the pink on the walls and hung your designer handbag collection 👜
I owed you that 🤣🤣🤣
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May 10, 2020 14:50:00 GMT 1
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Post by ianboom on May 10, 2020 14:50:00 GMT 1
I put a nail through a gas pipe a few years ago, i wrongly thought any pipe would be in conduit. I moved again just before the lock down, into a house built in 1985. Nothing is in conduit. I also can't get any plaster anywhere!!
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May 10, 2020 15:07:28 GMT 1
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Post by steve h on May 10, 2020 15:07:28 GMT 1
FFS indeed...all that area to drill a b*****d hole and you go and hit a bulls eye. Would be hilarious if it was funny... but it aint... However.. I'm well acquainted to this act of sods law...
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Post by dave1w on May 10, 2020 15:36:06 GMT 1
After doing lots around the house and religiously using my stud and power line checking thing, for some reason I had a brain fart and drilled into the wall above the fuse box to fit a house alarm box. Was a bit of a bang....
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May 10, 2020 15:42:12 GMT 1
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Post by dusty350 on May 10, 2020 15:42:12 GMT 1
Bloody hell Veg I did it years ago in my freshly plastered and decorated kitchen. Drilling a hole to put a batten on the wall for a worktop - straight through the cable feeding the powerpoint on the wall Took the end off my drill bit and rendered my underwear u/s. At least you are insured. You would be amazed at how many people don't have basic insurance at home. Dusty
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May 10, 2020 16:06:12 GMT 1
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on May 10, 2020 16:06:12 GMT 1
Bummer mate 😫
I say it's a sign from God that your project HAS to be water cooled 🤣
Steve
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May 10, 2020 16:27:48 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2020 16:27:48 GMT 1
I can sympathise, Veg, many years ago at my mothers place I'd decided the missus and I had had enough of the cleaning pool
So it was time to get rid of it, it wasn't being used and the dogs hated anything to do with water, except for drinking
So it was out with the sledge to break up the concrete surrounds, this was a 25 x 12' fibreglass pool, there is only one way for them to come out and that's dig the buggers out, there was a lot of concrete to be smashed up first
I'm happily smashing away and a get to the pieces next to the wall of the house, so rather than a sledge i thought I'd use an axe, so it would be more accurate and I wouldn't remove any bricks by mistake
Well I didn't remove any bricks, only the 3/4" copper pipe that supplied the whole house, it was lying in wait, just under the surface, for me to swing that axe and whoosh, never seen so much water come out of a pipe
I couldn't have hit it any cleaner and in the worst possible place right on the formed elbow, it was a b@$^@*d to fix
Of all the places to hide a water pipe, you'd not know it was there
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Post by veg on May 10, 2020 16:29:26 GMT 1
Cheers chaps I can kind of see the funny side of it now. It’s never just when you’re starting always at the end. At least the insurance will pay for some other mug to do it, or maybe I do it again and the money goes towards the project. Steve it could be a sign, but maybe it’s saying don’t go water cooled?
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May 10, 2020 17:55:32 GMT 1
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Post by cb250g5 on May 10, 2020 17:55:32 GMT 1
One bank holiday last year, SWMBO asked me to dig up a bush in the front garden. I was about 5 inches down with my spade when I heard a gushing sound. "Oh dear" I thought, or something like that. Strangely, no sign of water in the hole. Scraped around a bit, yellow plastic. I'd severed the gas feed to the house.
Called the gas lot out, who said it would probably be chargeable, up to the next guy who came along. I pointed out the lack of depth, 18" is modern building standard. Never heard owt from them.
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May 10, 2020 19:09:00 GMT 1
Post by rattler on May 10, 2020 19:09:00 GMT 1
I had similar garden / gas pipe incident a few years ago - I was smacking on of those post spikes in the garden and I suddenly smelt gas - it took a few hours to get the gas people out and they charged mr £75 t resolve it - lesson learnt - or maybe not
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May 10, 2020 19:12:17 GMT 1
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Post by bigkenx on May 10, 2020 19:12:17 GMT 1
That’s shit mate I get called out to faults a lot people ripping up services to house with either spade or digger just happens strike alert gizmos are good two copper rods are good always worked for me hocus pocus but works
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Post by motty on May 10, 2020 20:56:14 GMT 1
I've hit the gas pipe with a pick axe 😟 And electrics with a drill 😟😟 Several times 😟😟😟
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May 10, 2020 21:46:14 GMT 1
Post by hoist1 on May 10, 2020 21:46:14 GMT 1
I live in a bungalow built 40-50 years ago, had a water meter for the last 2 years. Been here 9 years and the stop c**k has had an almost permanent leak, the water board have dug it up so many times I’ve lost count. When the meter was installed it was submerged in water on the first day, so impossible to read. Life got in the way a bit and the wife just kept paying the bill, was high but we never had a meter previously and we were still getting them out to dig it up, again umpteen times in 2 years. And again always full of water. Not my department but I decided to go through all the bills which was not easy to make sense of. Turns out we had overpaid by £2500, we did manage to claim some of it back, then realised the meter was still whizzing round when they eventually sorted it, first time I had seen it . Turns out the earth rod had pierced the pipe at the house decades ago. Oh well, put it down to experience we thought. Trouble was I then realised our waste charges had assumed water used had gone down the drain so we had actually overpaid by £5000. Grrrrrrr . Suppose I would have only spent it on another bike to look after.
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May 11, 2020 16:23:14 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on May 11, 2020 16:23:14 GMT 1
I've also severed the telephone line, twice, and you'd think I'd know where it is, I dug the 30m trench a metre deep, it only need to be 600mm...bah
Then I cut it again putting in another shed, used a small ditch witch, went straight thogh it again, luckily thy tetelepone guy lived in the next street
Got a shock if it too, never realised it passed 120V
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May 11, 2020 19:18:17 GMT 1
Post by cb250g5 on May 11, 2020 19:18:17 GMT 1
Got a shock if it too, never realised it passed 120V 50V DC normally, you won't feel it. Ringing is 80V AC, you'll certainly feel that.
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May 12, 2020 5:55:26 GMT 1
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Post by bigkenx on May 12, 2020 5:55:26 GMT 1
Just don’t hit a lv cable takes a while to blow the fuse normally set on fire or go with a severe bang depending on how much load on , 11 kv usually trip out at the sub depending how close it is been to far to many and heard the excuses I knew it was there but I just hit it I wasn’t using a digger and they is a massive blow hole in h the bucket with teeth on best ones farmers with tele handlers straight through overhead power lines I had to put 5 poles up and restring the line and then one farmer caught a pole ploughing and ripped about 8 span down music on big tractor I never felt it he said
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May 12, 2020 7:34:20 GMT 1
Post by hoist1 on May 12, 2020 7:34:20 GMT 1
Just don’t hit a lv cable takes a while to blow the fuse normally set on fire or go with a severe bang depending on how much load on , 11 kv usually trip out at the sub depending how close it is been to far to many and heard the excuses I knew it was there but I just hit it I wasn’t using a digger and they is a massive blow hole in h the bucket with teeth on best ones farmers with tele handlers straight through overhead power lines I had to put 5 poles up and restring the line and then one farmer caught a pole ploughing and ripped about 8 span down music on big tractor I never felt it he said It wasn’t me on the tele handler that time. Was in a farmers shed once, ok more than once, and a fault had caused the main electrical box to blow off the wall and embed itself in the opposite brick wall 30ft away. And don’t get me started on gas cylinders.
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May 12, 2020 8:16:32 GMT 1
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Post by bigkenx on May 12, 2020 8:16:32 GMT 1
There was i incident in wales at another company that the driver of a digger was very very lucky we all had a safety stand down because of it he was just told to dig a hole by a transformer pole to put a live line pole up no shrouding on pole to start with and digging by a live transformer pole is big no no so he started digging and undermined the pole it fell and the transformer smashed through the cab of the digger still live this is and was resting right by him arcing and because of the fault system it was auto resetting and becoming live again off and on again he stayed there for almost a hour before someone saw him he had burns but that was it very lucky man, I’ve seen some bad stuff we all have but you do have show some caution with electric just breathing in the explosion will burn your insides to mush, most of the stuff I work on is live jointing but I’ve worked all through from digging cable in to climbing poles putting poles up and now jointing
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May 12, 2020 9:36:50 GMT 1
Post by hoist1 on May 12, 2020 9:36:50 GMT 1
There was i incident in wales at another company that the driver of a digger was very very lucky we all had a safety stand down because of it he was just told to dig a hole by a transformer pole to put a live line pole up no shrouding on pole to start with and digging by a live transformer pole is big no no so he started digging and undermined the pole it fell and the transformer smashed through the can still live this is and was resting right by him arcing and because of the fault system it was auto resetting and becoming live again off and on again he stayed there for almost a hour before someone saw him he had burns but that was it very lucky man, I’ve seen some bad stuff we all have but you do have show some caution with electric just breathing in the explosion will burn your insides to mush, most of the stuff I work on is live jointing but I’ve worked all through from digging cable in to climbing poles putting poles up and now jointing Used to put up hop gardens, sometimes had a digger in but the rest of the digging was done with a spade, esp if a jcb was too big to work in that space. Mini diggers didn’t exist then, even then they might not have been suitable, also mainly used ladders and some used stilts. Was hard and dangerous work for little money, went on to work in docks which was also hard etc but well paid.
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