Here's mine.
Not long been in the game, when I was replacing some rads at a nice house for a very posh lady.
One of the 2 metre long double rads in the lounge was being replaced due to rust around the valve tail holes and bleed screw. Anyhow, because the area around the bleed screw was so rusty and cruddy, I couldn't unscrew it. So I drained what I thought was the contents of the rad. At the time I didn't think there was much water in the rad.
As I lifted the old rad off the wall, and swung the rad around to head for the door, I found out that because I hadn't been able to undo the bleed screw, there was still plenty of water in the rad. The slight swinging/rotating motion was enough to break the vacuum that was holding the remaining water in the rad.
This water, well black, tar-like fluid, shot out of the unvalved end of the rad and across the room, up the wall, and onto the part of the beige carpet that wasn't covered with sheets.
Not long been in the game, when I was replacing some rads at a nice house for a very posh lady.
One of the 2 metre long double rads in the lounge was being replaced due to rust around the valve tail holes and bleed screw. Anyhow, because the area around the bleed screw was so rusty and cruddy, I couldn't unscrew it. So I drained what I thought was the contents of the rad. At the time I didn't think there was much water in the rad.
As I lifted the old rad off the wall, and swung the rad around to head for the door, I found out that because I hadn't been able to undo the bleed screw, there was still plenty of water in the rad. The slight swinging/rotating motion was enough to break the vacuum that was holding the remaining water in the rad.
This water, well black, tar-like fluid, shot out of the unvalved end of the rad and across the room, up the wall, and onto the part of the beige carpet that wasn't covered with sheets.