Simon_D Posted January 21, 2006 Posted January 21, 2006 a mate of mine was asked to put an alarm in his bosses house. they all knew he took home loads of tins of paint from work and kept them in the loft. when wirin alarm, the apprentice looped every cable thru th handles of the paint. not a word was ever said.
arfur mo Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 a guy i knew was working in the Boots Chemist shop at Southend, it had a central wood panelled staircase top to bottom, so he decided to drill through at the top with a 20mm spade bit and drop a cable down the cavity. unfortunately he hit a 4" lead water pipe, and in his panic he smashed through the oak panelling with a hammer and stoved in the water pipe in an attempt to stem the flow. but this being a lead pipe was the feed too the header tanks in trhe loft and on mains pressure, so water was still gushing out the hole. so he runs down to the basement which is now submerged and stock is bobbing arround in the water, so at the ground floor he again smashes through the panelling and stoves in the lead pipe - but the wronge one, it was next doors feed which used to be part of the same building. several panels later he finds the inlet stop cook and turns off the water breaking off the handle in the process. the claim must have been massive If you think education is difficult, try being stupid!!!!
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Posted June 29, 2006 Okies Two quick ones; Fitting a video panel and cut into the wall by the front door to flush the panel, had a nice chat with the owner. Through the hole i had made of course and called a m8 to rebrick the wall. Fitting a wall safe ( yer was my locksmith days) asked owner was the house ever built up, ie thickness of brick courses. Was told 6 brick width, surveyor was there last week, chip, chip hello neighbours. Make it a third, Bloke i knew once flucked up with a cable route , as mentioned b4 he used toothpaste to fill it. Customer rang the boss, laughing her ass off. Said its so funny i`ll let it go if ya come back and fill the hole properly. (just thought about that, no comments pls)
arfur mo Posted June 29, 2006 Posted June 29, 2006 There must be a proper fix for this. Worth reminding members of the fix to drilled pipes Tips & TricksJef this is a simple trick, works on leaded roofs really well. get some self amalagmating tape shaped in a cone to form a plug, warm with gas gun and push it ito hole. regs alan If you think education is difficult, try being stupid!!!!
arfur mo Posted June 29, 2006 Posted June 29, 2006 working in a set of refurbed offices in a warehouse had to run cables from window to window, flat roof so no loft and was in the old days of 1/2" galve tube (before trunking was even a twinkle). i gave the job of running the cables to my trainee, i told him to make holes through the partitions big enough for an elbow to fit into the wall. checks on him an hour later, big smile on his dust strewn face greets me, he gleefully shoves his arm through a hole in wall - you gessed it - past his elbow, and demonstrates same on 5 further walls asking is that big enough? site forman not too impressed regs alan If you think education is difficult, try being stupid!!!!
Alarm Protection Posted June 29, 2006 Posted June 29, 2006 Was drilling up through a bungalow roofspace thinking what the fek as one of the roof tiles was on the end of my drill. Oh the early days. !
inglishg Posted January 9, 2008 Posted January 9, 2008 How many jobs have i been to and found the code on the wall next to the keypad??? Many years ago, I was asked to fit a...erm...well...ADE Logic key panel for an old couple. Obviously they come with three keys, and I suggested they have one key each, and hide the third in the house for use if they ever lose one of their normal keys. Well, a year later I returned...and found their hiding place. In the control box key hole! "We won't lose it if we leave it in there"
KateC Posted May 20, 2009 Posted May 20, 2009 Thread revivals are us... I've drilled through... A large 40mm boiling hot water pipe. It flooded three floors and dropped pretty much the entire false ceiling on the two lower floors. Nobody knew where to turn it off. The offices that I flooded looked like saunas! Brand new building too - just kitted out ready for everyone to start work in it the following week! Oops! I drilled through a breeze block wall into a cupboard and straight into a really big SWA 3ph mains cable! Hehe! My 1/2 metre drill bit disintegrated and my drill died too. You should have heard that bang! Took out the power in two offices and a server room! An apprentice of mine did a similar trick to what someone did on here and drilled up into a flat roof and straight out into the daylight instead of the loft! After feeding up a 6 core and many visits up into the loft and lots of head scratching - the customer eventually told him that there was a white wire hanging over the gutter and almost down on to the floor with the amount he'd shoved up there! Hehe! Will add more when I have a bit more thinking time. Hehe! I do have more! Kate C x
SUBS Posted May 20, 2009 Posted May 20, 2009 Thread revivals are us...I've drilled through... A large 40mm boiling hot water pipe. It flooded three floors and dropped pretty much the entire false ceiling on the two lower floors. Nobody knew where to turn it off. The offices that I flooded looked like saunas! Brand new building too - just kitted out ready for everyone to start work in it the following week! Oops! I drilled through a breeze block wall into a cupboard and straight into a really big SWA 3ph mains cable! Hehe! My 1/2 metre drill bit disintegrated and my drill died too. You should have heard that bang! Took out the power in two offices and a server room! An apprentice of mine did a similar trick to what someone did on here and drilled up into a flat roof and straight out into the daylight instead of the loft! After feeding up a 6 core and many visits up into the loft and lots of head scratching - the customer eventually told him that there was a white wire hanging over the gutter and almost down on to the floor with the amount he'd shoved up there! Hehe! Will add more when I have a bit more thinking time. Hehe! I do have more! Kate C x Bloke I know had that happen once in a school, concrete roof about 4" thick. filled the hole with black silicone, then caulk on the inside, then put the camera ( cheapo mini dome ) over the hole, with the cable in trunking. Then kicked the kids arris once it was all hidden. That was ten or 12 years ago , I look after the site now, and I cant help but look up at it every time I go there, but theres still no sign that its leaking.
SouthernBrad Posted July 9, 2010 Posted July 9, 2010 These an old securicor engineer still on our firm and he has so many good stories.He said once him and another engineer were installing an alarm in a house and the other chap drilled through a boot cupboard out into a kitchen type room for a door contact.The guy taped the cable onto the end of the drill bit and pulled it through the otherside of the wall.Clipped it to the frame and did what he had to do fitted contact etc. The following week the customer phoned up and explained how she had a cable through one one of her jackets,the install engineer was sent back to site and despite drilling through her cupboard,coat and pulling the cable through the coat he still had the cheek to say "at least nobody will steal your coat" haha.
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