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We had a small patch of damp mould right at the top of the landing above the stairs..( right in the corner ) so i borowed next door neighbours ladder...
The ladder was too long to wedge in the top stair and go to the wall across the landing ( above the stairs !!! )
So i closed the bathroom door about 4 ft back from top stair and wedged the ladder against the bottom of the door with a thick towel between so there would be no marks...
Grabbed my 5 litre new white emulsion and climbed across to the patch of damp...( roughly about 18ft above bottom stair....u know whats coming dont you....)
The hindge gave way on the bottom of the bathroom door....the door swung in about a foot at the bottom....enough for me to have time to say " oh sh1t " and i was hitting the ladder and bottom stair at about mach 1 with a white exploding bomb at the same time in the hallway...
We did have a nice burgundy carpet in the hallway and burgundy / cream walls lol...
Anyway the bodily damage part...black/blue shins , ankles , knees a jarred back and ingestion of about 1 litre of emulsion.. ( i am lucky i didnt break my shins as the bruises are just to the left of my tibias so im told !!! )This is a day later and im flying from cocodamols lol...
Its all insured tho and they are on the case thank god..
One lesson very painfully learn't....hope it makes you laf..i can a little now lol..
The ladder was too long to wedge in the top stair and go to the wall across the landing ( above the stairs !!! )
So i closed the bathroom door about 4 ft back from top stair and wedged the ladder against the bottom of the door with a thick towel between so there would be no marks...
Grabbed my 5 litre new white emulsion and climbed across to the patch of damp...( roughly about 18ft above bottom stair....u know whats coming dont you....)
The hindge gave way on the bottom of the bathroom door....the door swung in about a foot at the bottom....enough for me to have time to say " oh sh1t " and i was hitting the ladder and bottom stair at about mach 1 with a white exploding bomb at the same time in the hallway...
We did have a nice burgundy carpet in the hallway and burgundy / cream walls lol...
Anyway the bodily damage part...black/blue shins , ankles , knees a jarred back and ingestion of about 1 litre of emulsion.. ( i am lucky i didnt break my shins as the bruises are just to the left of my tibias so im told !!! )This is a day later and im flying from cocodamols lol...
Its all insured tho and they are on the case thank god..
One lesson very painfully learn't....hope it makes you laf..i can a little now lol..