Tonight's topic, thought we could chat about when you have broke or smashed something on a job and what did you do. I smashed a light shade while carrying a roll into a job. fella said don't worry about it :smile: Put my knee through a toilet seat in a horrible flat which was a live-in, but fella was out. I said nothing :shock: But once I was trying to move a roll of heavy cushion floor out of a hall with my mate and I pulled it towards me (with the bloke watching) and it flew past me and straight through the low window next to the front door. My mate when into the kitchen laughing his head off as I kept saying sorry mate to the bloke. We had to fit the floor for free then :evil: Any stories lads.
My second week as a trainee was the worse accident. Working in a massive house, just had a double oak staircase put in and we were doing the carpets, load of Brintons majestic. I had to clear out the dining room of a few small bits of furniture. There was a little table on wheels with a couple of china ornaments on it so I thought I would just wheel it out the room. hit a little bump in the floor and this china doll/figure went down, felt like slow motion and for a second it looked ok.... and then the head fell off :cry: I was thinking about getting some of the rapid set out the van we had used recently. But in the end I just thought I best just own up and then get sacked. I offered to pay for it but the customer didnt think I would be able to afford it(ever) After a few hours she actually thanked me for owning up to it as she probably would of blamed the builder. Stacked Three doors up outside ready to cut on a windy day, when I brought the fourth out they were all on the floor with holes in them from the handles and a big scratch down the customers 2 month old car :cry: My favourite was the time my mate had just fitted a white runner and I come in to pick up the offcuts with dog shite on me shoe and made a right mess of it That 1 gets bought up pretty much every christmas do I honestly dont know how I never got the sack, he was a good man the fella that trained me :roll:
i wrote off the lifts in the Birmingham dental hospital / university. I say lifts, they called them paternosters. Basically we had just finished a huge carpet area and i was carrying out the rubbish. We had some carpet poles (the great big thick ones) I lent a carpet pole up against the wall and i knocked it while sorting out other rubbish. Well it fell into the paternoster but remained upright. The paternoster did not stop when the poll got jammed in it. It started to rip each paternoster carriage into bits. It carried on doing this until i managed to pull the poll out by jumping on the middle of it until in eventually bent in half. Im lucky that this happened at 9pm at night and there was no one riding on the lifts. All i remember was looking down the corridor at my dad who knew by the noise what had just happened. I then decided it was best for me to start to run in the opposite direction as he was going to murder me :? You may ask about the safety? well there is no safety cut off. Dont forget that the paternoster was over 7 floors and on each floor 4 people can get on it at a time so the sudden wait loading by the poll was normal. The repair bill was horrendous. Thank god we was insured! [youtube:2tff63f0]9qMyHi_-N4k[/youtube:2tff63f0]
Ha great topic where do i start we did a tunnel linking a hospital to thecarpark in rubber with logos and motifs as the trainee it was my job to check all windows were shut at end of day walk all the way down check them and comeback next day greeted with epoxy footprints all way down on top of the rubber, Using a machine to buff off latex it kicked to the side and smashed a new shower tray, Smashed a French window playing football with a pebble kicking it for customers dog to fetch While talking to customer Lent on kitchen breakfast bar not realizing mate had un screwed and tacked legs away everything ended up on the floor, To many to mention just wish I could say it was all when I was younger think I've got worse the older I've got
Had one of the old Hi-ace vans that had the gear lever and handbrake in the dash / side of steering wheel. Put the carpet I didn't need on the passenger seat and pulled the one out from underneath. The one on the passenger seat slipped off and knocked the handbrake off. Van rolled down the drive into the back of the customers new company car. Put the heat iron in the box, didn't check it was latched correctly,hot iron fell out onto new carpet. Wasn't popular with my governor. Lifted a corner display unit with the leaded glass resting on my knee, you guessed it, knee through the glass. Doing a board replacement, saw kicked back into the previously undamaged board next to it. Cracked the windscreen getting a 4m in one of my old vans. That'll do for now.
I smashed a customers glass lightshade when my straight edge sprang open, it was one of a pair so I had to pay to replace both.....I was only on 30 quid a week YTS money at the time
There was a little table on wheels with a couple of china ornaments on it so I thought I would just wheel it out the room. hit a little bump in the floor and this china doll/figure went down, felt like slow motion and for a second it looked ok.... and then the head fell off :cry: Cracker that mate, would of loved to see your face :lol: :lol:
I was gutted mate, I was sure they would get rid of me for that. My mate said something bad always happened in that house, they did a room a year before and the guy that worked there before me cut his thigh open with a hook blade cutting back a corner
Not that bad but funny, when I worked at variety ( my old employers ) me and my mate were at a hairdressers where a wall between 2 rooms had been knocked into one big room. We were filling the 12" gap with Amtico. The hairdressers was open an full of people and we were working away. At the end of the gap was a stand full of sprays gel bottles etc. We had to move it to get under it. As we lifted it the arms come off the stand and the gear when everywhere. I mean everywhere, rolling under people's feet, across the shop, gel smashed on the floor. We couldn't stop laughing, then the owner when mad but we couldn't stop laughing still, I was crying it was that funny. Good times when I worked there, crap work though.
As an apprentice I remember fitting out a lot of office units with the glass frontage, and there I am up and down the stairs like a maniac and I run straight into the glass doors like a dog runs into a patio door when seeing a cat, nothing smashed apart from my face and my ego funny thing is I done it more than once :lol:
I broke a lift once whilst getting carpet tiles upto the 5th floor, on the pannel there was a switch that said lift hold so I thought mmm if I switch that on that should stop the doors from trying to close all the time while I'm loading and unloading. How wrong I was and it broke alarm bells ringing and it was stuck on the the 5th floor my dad gave me a right kicking and I had carry every box up to the 5th floor. Took ITV of line on a sunday morning once whilst installing carpet tiles to their automated editing suite, there were just so many shinny buttons knobs and levers I couldn't resist playing with them and suddenly all these video machines behind me started ejecting the videos OPPS head down back to work this guy comes running in and says have you touched something yes mate sorry I lost my balance and reached out to grab the desk but ended up catching a few of the buttons. Set fire to Ipswich Hospital with F60 that was funny.
On Tuesday went to job and customer tried to open sliding door. It wad a bit sticky so I lent a hand. Trapped his finger and took off his finger nail. Got wee brother started and went to do a 2x2 bathroom in another house. Came back and brother cut the carpet short. After fixing it the helper was just finishing felting the landing and stuck a staple through the multitude of alarm wires that were strune across the floor.
