Flooded bathroom - Anyone else made a silly DIY mistake?

skycatcher

pmartin86 said:

Gavin83 said:

Ohh I have several:

Removed the waste from under the kitchen sink to fix an issue. Without thinking I poured the trap fall of water down the disconnected sink. Thankfully not much water and most of it ended up on me. Felt like a right banana.

I've done something very similar - Removed the trap, then proceeded to start "washing it" in the sink...

Did exactly this 2 weeks ago - removed and cleaned the trap and then with it in my hand thought lets see if the sink empies faster now so put the plug in and filled it then removed the plug - woosh! soaked everything nder the sink and filled our tub of dishwasher tablets which then partially dissovled and melded together even though I drained it straight away.

Bendy_House

Nope. Never did nuffink silly. I've been a complete pro DIYer all of my life.

itsanne

Our first house had numerous (non-structural) cracks. I got carried away with the Polyfilla and 'filled' the living room windows shut.

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At one time I wired a bathroom extractor fan backwards so it was blowing rather than sucking. 

travis-powers

I snapped a lead water main in a clients house once, probably the worst day I have ever had!

danrv

I cut a bathroom cold feed pipe thinking that it was mains supply but turned out it was loft tank fed.
Had Speedfit stops ends ready so managed to fit one before getting too soaked.
Bit of a moment though.

Slinky

When we bought this house, we intended it to let it out for a year or so before we were able to move here. It needed decorating and new carpets etc so we planned on doing the work over a couple of weeks whilst we 'camped' in the house and had the plumber and electrician do some jobs.

First morning we wake up to the sounds like gunshots, bang, bang, bang as the CH pipes warmed up and the pipes rubbed on the nails the builders had helpfully bent over the top of the pipes when building the house 50+ years earlier. We tracked down the worst of the bangs and lifted some floorboards to sort the problem. This took several days of tracking the worst of the sounds. In the meantime, we decorated most of the house.  We were getting tired towards the end of the two weeks, which probably accounted for my OH marking on a floorboard where the hot water pipe was (to avoid it), then promptly drilling through the pipe when putting the board back down. Water pouring through the ceiling of the newly decorated lounge below. It was pure luck we hadn't had the carpet installed.