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Desperado99

LOL

Not long after we first moved in (and being of a delicate DIY persuasion) we got my Dad round to put some hooks in for some curtain tie-backs in the kitchen..........

Dad spectacularly drilled straight into an electricity cable and shorted out the whole house.

Bank holiday weekend.

So emergency call-out fee to the local electrician (who said he would have drilled in exactly the same spot) who put in an extra socket over where dad had drilled and put up the hooks for us before he left.

The extra socket is actually very useful, but we bought Dad a cable finder for xmas

DKLS

I would avoid trying to drill through mains electricity cables and gas pipes. I have done both, the first blew me across the room and the second I sat with my finger over the hole until my plumber mate rocked up and spent the next 20 mins taking the pizzle.

Oh and one other thing, please dont run a bath for over 6 hours!

Biggles

I had been doing a couple of jobs for my old Mum.

While my back was turned, she thought she'd be helpful and borrowed my drill to drill a hole to hang a calendar up.

When I saw she had drilled it in a vertical line above the kitchen light switch, I said, "Hang on a minute, Mum" and got a lampholder, stuck a bulb in it, connected one wire to a nearby earth and stuck the bare end of the other into the hole she'd made.

When the bulb lit up, she had to go and have a sit down. She never borrowed my drill again!