if youve had a bad day, or stressed, I will make you smile

fragmast3r

Well after the stress of selling a house, then renting a house as we couldnt find a house we liked, the more stress of applying for mortgage etc, friday 21st of june, we got the keys to our brandnew dream house.

Now the bit that will cheer you all up, i promise.......


within 2 hours, i had drilled through two seperate water pipes, 1 in front room, 1 in kitchen..................... oooops

to make matters worst, the 22nd was my birthday, some joker bought me a stud/cable and pipe finder

so if you've had a bad day, feel free to have a smile at my expense.

but fairplay to taylor wimpey, they send a plumber round and for the price of a couple of beers, the plumber had me sorted.

Lord_Baltimore

Were you hanging curtains or something? Do they 'hide' pipes in funny places in new builds?

Angelicdevil

fragmast3r wrote: »

Well after the stress of selling a house, then renting a house as we couldnt find a house we liked, the more stress of applying for mortgage etc, friday 21st of june, we got the keys to our brandnew dream house.

Now the bit that will cheer you all up, i promise.......


within 2 hours, i had drilled through two seperate water pipes, 1 in front room, 1 in kitchen..................... oooops

to make matters worst, the 22nd was my birthday, some joker bought me a stud/cable and pipe finder

so if you've had a bad day, feel free to have a smile at my expense.

but fairplay to taylor wimpey, they send a plumber round and for the price of a couple of beers, the plumber had me sorted.

:rotfl: I feel like I can laugh with you......after a pretty stressful move I decided I'd be DIY goddess and install my new dishwasher myself. I was doing great until it came to making a hole in the cupboard to feed the waste pipe through.....

Went straight through to the pipe behind it. I didn't even know where the stop valve was Water was p*ssing everywhere. After much flapping I decided I had nothing to lose by going over the road to my neighbour and playing daft female.

Cue calls to various plumbers (at 8pm!!!), £250 later and lesson learnt!

ETA: Oh yeh and the following day, the rabbit decided to chew through my router, modem cables and the ethernet cables. It was an interesting week

DaftyDuck

I'd cry on your behalf, not laugh...

But it'd only make the flood worse

So far, touch wood (not metal) I have only once drilled into anything that mattered, although that was a power cable, and there was a loud bang. The cable wiggled its way in a random fashion, following the underside of a staircase, and there was no spare cable, and no chance of pulling the cable through... I didn't have a stud detector either, not then.

There was a phone socket nearby and, by the time my wife had returned, there was a new small neat shelf on the wall for the answerphone, a new wall socket for power in just the right spot ;);), and I'd moved the phone socket. With a comfy chair for all those long conversations too! "There, thought the phone would fit perfectly under there"... "Wow, that's the perfect place" sez she....

I did admit why a few hours later, but it was a good cover-up job... and way before any electrical regs would have had me up for treason, as well!

Bogof_Babe

This has the makings of a hilarious thread, keep 'em coming :rotfl:.

You'll never be short of friends if you can laugh at yourself and laugh at your troubles! :beer:

DaftyDuck

OK, well, another one. Day of completing, moving from Suffolk (where I finished the pack with the removal men at 10am) to North Yorkshire, where I collected the key to the new, old house, 3pm, December. Got to house at 4, in a small, sleepy village, wearing filthy clothes, buckets, bleach, vacuum cleaner etc. No state to introduce myself for the neighbours, getting dark, much cleaning to be done, and no curtains.

So, start downstairs, light one room at a time, as don't want a friendly visitor, I want to bleach and clean and wash and bleach... head down, I work my way from room to room, search out a light switch in the dark, turn it on, vacuum, wipe, clean, light off, next room. Onwards.

Master bedroom. Hunt for lightswitch... hmmm, no sign of it... ah HA, there's a toggle switch dangling over the bed. Click

Wahhh Waaahhh Wheep Wahhh Waaahhh Wheep Wahhh Waaahhh Wheep Wahhh Waaahhh Wheep

I'd found the alarm panic button. However, I'd yet to find the alarm, and it was an old large building, with all the lights off, no curtains, many corridors and cupboards, a semi-naked and very sweaty - and filthy bloke... rapidly joined by several very helpful neighbours who split their sides giving me hints where the alarm might be... "warmer... warmer... colder".

They then fed me coffee, hot chocolate and buns til I collapsed, exhausted, but in a clean house around 2am.

Oh, edit... when I did find it, it was an old key - operated one, which had been off when I arrived (presume panic button on different circuit), and i then had to find the huge bundle of keys that were somewhere... somewhere safe where I'd put them out of the way. The bell outside was loud, the one inside was one of those big round bell and hammer jobs, and I felt sick from the noise and vibration...

Bogof_Babe

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That really IS hilarious DaftyDuck (hence the username? ). I laughed so much reading it that my boiled egg went cold! Still giggling now.

Never mind a thread, there's the makings of a book here! :idea:

fragmast3r

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

Were you hanging curtains or something? Do they 'hide' pipes in funny places in new builds?

hanging curtains drilled 10cm above windows and 10cm to right and bang, a pipe in both places , pipes run straight down from upstairs to downstairs.

Money_Bunny

Came home a couple of months ago to find my husband drilling a hole for a screw to hold up a cabinet - directly over the main fuse box.

Fortunately, my scream stopped him in the nick of time.

gazter

When the wife and I moved into our very first home, it was brand new built. We had just moved in the day before, the new and very expensive bamboo flooring had just been laid. My wife had gone to work. It was my duty to put the microwave on the wall.
I had a pipe detector, i checked the kitchen wall, nothing.

I get the drill out. First attempt at doing anything in the house, straight through into the plastic water pipes behind, water gushing everywhere, all over the floor.

The site manager the day before had shown me where the stop tap was. So i found that. I was actually in tears.

It was that same feeling you would get from picking up your lovely new BMW from the dealers, and scratching up all the paintwork the first time you try to park it on your drive.

motherofstudents

Well, thanks for cheering me up ! When we bought our first house, I just assumed my husband would know how to do simple DIY. It gradually started to dawn on me when he went to hang a length of wallpaper and was left up the ladder with a small piece of paper in each hand and the remainder in a soggy heap on the floor. I'm sorry to say he's never improved in spite of me giving him lots of opportunities.

In our second house, he knocked a nail through a gas pipe. The gas man that came had such a look of pity on his face and we never got a bill. The fourth house he went up in the loft to lay insulation - the kind that comes wrapped in foil so you just lay it. He unwrapped it and was itching for days. As it was hot up there he started to feel faint and put his foot through the bedroom ceiling......Sadly I could go on.
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