Ffs, I’m going to take up darts!

[crispy_wafer]

Couldn’t for the life of me get a piece of pipe to hold pressure yesterday, stripped all the fittings off, double checking the pressure tester…

 

now I know why 🤣, bugger!

[marshian]

Ouch what caused that - clearly not a dart?

[Onoff]

This was a genuine near miss when I dropped a flat wood bit:

 

[ProDave]

Better than that, but no photos.

 

Drilling a 16mm hole through a thick stone wall for a cable.  When it broke through on the inside, I cut back a bit of the plasterboard, to find the drill bit had emerged through the wall between two 22mm copper pipes that nobody knew were there.  An inch either way and it would have been a wet problem to fix.

[crispy_wafer]

1 hour ago, marshian said:

Ouch what caused that - clearly not a dart?

Fixing some metal frame ceiling to the other side of the top of this stud wall.

 

 Nearly sorted, just connected to the shower valve now under test before I put the wall board back. thankfully plant room is next door so it was only 2m of pipe to pull/push 

[FuerteStu]

I bullseyed a copper pipe that was less that 5mm deep in the floor screed while fixing a footplate to close up a doorway after joining up shower/toilet separates.

 

Managed to do it at 9pm one night, all hell broke loose, including the stopcock handle breaking off when I tried to isolate. 

 

One thing with renovations, if it can go wrong, it usually will at the worst time possible! 

[crispy_wafer]

5 minutes ago, FuerteStu said:

I bullseyed a copper pipe that was less that 5mm deep in the floor screed while fixing a footplate to close up a doorway after joining up shower/toilet separates.

 

Managed to do it at 9pm one night, all hell broke loose, including the stopcock handle breaking off when I tried to isolate. 

 

One thing with renovations, if it can go wrong, it usually will at the worst time possible! 

Good shot sir

[Onoff]

Posted before but I suspected what I found when I carefully excavated. The previous owner had put a dinner gong directly above the light switch:

 

 

 

[ProDave]

^^^^  Ah yes safe zones.  Everybody know never to drill a hole in a safe zone without checking first.

 

Except the person hanging something on the wall, and then of course they measure meticulously to ensure the thing they are hanging exactly lines up with the centreline of the switch.  

 

BULLSEYE