Phone rang at 6:20pm water streaming down walls and ceiling after he's been screwing down creaky floorboards. Regular customer a couple of miles away, I had technically a couple of hours to do it before we were going out so I went over.
The floor was 18mm tongue and groove OSB rubbish nailed down, in one of the bedrooms was a 'service route' of all the pipes and cables in the world passing under one 3ft section notched through ten joists . Screws were driven in and skimmed a few pipes and hit at least three.
In the panic he borrowed next doors recip saw and mindlessly plunge ripped the board up and cut through the hot and cold mains, c/h flow, half way through the return, ring mains and alarm wires, had it not been for RCD it could have killed him.
I got finished at 8:50pm, the hardest part was the pipes were cut hard up against skirting leaving mishapen stubs more or less out of reach, managed to solder everything properly and get the water back on and heating up and running! Talk about a frantic stress session, had the same last year Good Friday evening!
The floor was 18mm tongue and groove OSB rubbish nailed down, in one of the bedrooms was a 'service route' of all the pipes and cables in the world passing under one 3ft section notched through ten joists . Screws were driven in and skimmed a few pipes and hit at least three.
In the panic he borrowed next doors recip saw and mindlessly plunge ripped the board up and cut through the hot and cold mains, c/h flow, half way through the return, ring mains and alarm wires, had it not been for RCD it could have killed him.
I got finished at 8:50pm, the hardest part was the pipes were cut hard up against skirting leaving mishapen stubs more or less out of reach, managed to solder everything properly and get the water back on and heating up and running! Talk about a frantic stress session, had the same last year Good Friday evening!
