I put down a tongue and groove floor upstairs over an existing floor and, for authenticity used big floorboards nails.
I merrily whacked one in and heard a slight hiss. I lifted up the newly laid board and the hiss got a lot louder. I frantically hit a bolster into the floorboard underneath and ripped if up. A geyser of HOT water spouted up and hit the ceiling.
I'd hit the nail through the CH hot water pipe. In a panic, I lifted up the pipe and squeezed very tightly in an attempt to block the holes in the pipe (the nail had gone right through). However, the nail had splayed the copper on the bottom hole and this then speared through my fingertip.
I grabbed a towel which was on the bed and wrapped it round my badly bleeding finger as hot water still geysered up to the ceiling. I rushed to get to the main stopcock and bumped into my girlfriend. She looked at me, the blood, the geyser of steaming hot water then the towel and this is true.. she said "That's the new towel I just bought from Next and you're getting blood all over it".
I merrily whacked one in and heard a slight hiss. I lifted up the newly laid board and the hiss got a lot louder. I frantically hit a bolster into the floorboard underneath and ripped if up. A geyser of HOT water spouted up and hit the ceiling.
I'd hit the nail through the CH hot water pipe. In a panic, I lifted up the pipe and squeezed very tightly in an attempt to block the holes in the pipe (the nail had gone right through). However, the nail had splayed the copper on the bottom hole and this then speared through my fingertip.
I grabbed a towel which was on the bed and wrapped it round my badly bleeding finger as hot water still geysered up to the ceiling. I rushed to get to the main stopcock and bumped into my girlfriend. She looked at me, the blood, the geyser of steaming hot water then the towel and this is true.. she said "That's the new towel I just bought from Next and you're getting blood all over it".