I am a fool

[lor]

I turned the gas tap on a BBu the wrong way (my first week after ACS)
undid nut to fire , no hiss .
Pulled pipe off ,GAS LEAK...IGNITED FROM THE PILOT
I couldnt turn gas off because flames were in the way!

If customer hadnt been switched on the entire block would have burnt down

 

[Softus]

When my last daughter was born (lots of sleepless nights) i, for some strange reason decided that i would start removing faulty parts and then putting them straight back on again.

Was that in your own house?

When I changed my own UPS 15-50 I managed to install the faulty old one, twice, before eventually hurling it out of the window. I think I even invented some new swear words.

 

[corgiman]

I turned the gas tap on a BBu the wrong way (my first week after ACS)
undid nut to fire , no hiss .
Pulled pipe off ,GAS LEAK...IGNITED FROM THE PILOT
I couldnt turn gas off because flames were in the way!

If customer hadnt been switched on the entire block would have burnt down

I had one like that

an old girl called in to say she had no pilot light, I was about 20 and a right old greenhorn so I turned up, I am sure it was an old mexico CF or summink, so I lit the pilot and it came on luvverly, so I then switch onthe stat to fire it up and nothing, for about five seconds then WOOOOOOMMMFFF I lost my eyebrowns and needed a kwik change of underwear.

to top it all the old lady said "thats what happened when my son try to lit it so I thought it was best to get a CORGI man in" CHeers Love LMAO

The main burner was blocked to buggery except at the back.

 

[namsag]

On a big old boiler undone the mud hole covers thinking it was a flue way cover. Really on solid gave it a few wacks to get it off as i noticed first drip managed to get the nuts back on just as the cover came away kitchen covered in 2 inches of water in what seemed like no time at all..Got away with by saying lucky that happened while i was here otherwise you would have been flooded...

Re black iron bushes being used on cylinders as i turned a gate valve off once to drain cylinder all i heard was PING as the bush sheared with the slightest of movement.. Thankfully water straight down pipe duct to down stairs which was completly empty of stuff as they where just moving in

 

[Paul Barker]

Undid bottom elbow of saniflow to clear it. They'd been using blue loo aswell.

 

[corgiman]

Undid bottom elbow of saniflow to clear it. They'd been using blue loo aswell.

ewww

this is great lads a right good laugh

 

[sm1thson]

DIY (not pro) error:
me and my dad decided to try and clear an airlock (gravity fed system) with mains, anyway we did something wrong and the cylinder bottom poped out (went from concave to convex) and the cylinder split a seams, -oops

 

[Paul Barker]

The lad I trained came up with a great way to clear airlocks. He puts a submersible pond pump in the f/e tank and pipe down the feed. I know this is similar to the one where you hold a hose on the float valve operate it with elbow and bong vent pipe with third hand, but it's a bit easier and he recons works better.

I'm sure we have all been in a hurry, started filling a system before piping up the blow off valve, forgetting to watch the pressure guage. I did it once and then was prowdly telling the story to an interested audience, blow me down I did it again right infront of them.

 

[Paul Barker]

Was asked by Fire Protection company to decommission fire hoses, because the local waterboard couldn't find isolation for them, other than one which cut off the whole road. So I said I'd cap off in 1" after the stop valve which is just above ground. Thought I'd just neaten up the position of the stop valve so no old dears ladder their tights on it. Woosh, must have had a flow rate of 200 lpm through that fragile alcathene. Any old ladies walking up the corridore would have been swept off their feet. Fire company tut tuting me, that's exactly what we were afraid of, like it's you're fault!

 

[ChrisR]

Well I was young, OK?
Elson combined tank, first I'd seen. Thought it must be clever. Needed to change the immersions(2). No drain cock so I thought ( ) it must all siphon out then...
Until I removed the lower immersion heater
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Then - anyone not done this...?

Remove trap from kitchen sink, all blocked with nasty smelly watery goo. Let it drop into the washing up bowl you had underneath. Pick the plastic trap out of the bowl and sling it in the bin. Tip the watery goo from the washing up bowl down the sink....

 

[Softus]

Remove trap from kitchen sink, all blocked with nasty smelly watery goo. Let it drop into the washing up bowl you had underneath. Pick the plastic trap out of the bowl and sling it in the bin. Tip the watery goo from the washing up bowl down the sink....

No. I've done that. I've then sponged up the mess, wrung the sponge out into the bowl, and calmly tipped the bowl contents back into the sink...

 

[ChrisR]

A nearly nasty:
Swapped a gravity cylinder for a 300l Megaflo.
Bunch of people, hidden pipes etc, so we forgot about the old vent pipe.
Next morning, the old 3 x 80 gallon loft cisterns were pouring water down the overflow.

Purely on instinct, I'd closed the 3 x 1.5 inch gate valves on the outlets from the cisterns when we'd emptied them and disconnected from the domestic cold supplies.

House (big and posh enough to have 3 x 80 gallon...) had been left empty for 16 hours.

 

[ELZ4742]

thought i would impress my new boss by agreeing to replace the imersion heater in this newly renovated house (think new wooden floor)
as i was a bit wet behind the ears (in more ways than one) drained the cylinder, whiped the old 1 off, screwed in the new and re-filled the system.
feeling rather pleased with myself thought id celebrate with a mac d`s.

about £1500 worth of water damage.......excellent.

 

[solo]

Not me this one. Large hotel under construction near Victoria Station. working above false ceiling, I spotted a two inch galv pipe with a leaky union. Pointed it out to the gaffer and offered to nip it up. No said he, that's a pipefitters job and you're just a two bit plumber Anyway I stood and watched as he got some stilsons and put them on the nut. The fitting blew apart and the whole foyer was rapidly under two inches of water not to mention what was pouring down the lift and shaft and various other ways into the basement area. A small crowd soon formed. The by now drenched gaffer was stood in the middle of a small lake. He looked around at everyone and said "What's wrong? have you never seen a leak before?" Brilliant. Just glad it wasn't me.

 

[Vic Spanner]

Got home from work one night, Emptied my pockets out and found a test nipple amongst my loose change..Knew it was a puma so had to dash back and make an excuse that i had left my screwdriver inside the boiler. Very very lucky they were none the wiser