Bloody nightmare today! Finished the floor, finished my downstairs Ethernet and thought I’d get the upstairs sorted. I knew it was going to be aggro and it was - had the floors up in two bedrooms and landing running a Cat5e and an extra long HDMI cable. Anyway got them up to the loft eventually. Of course, I’m getting it in the ear from Mrs Mottie because of the state of the bedrooms and landing - according to her, when I fix one thing, I **** up another. I had almost finished, refitted the landing floor and carpet, refitted our bedroom floor and carpet, refitted the 2nd bedroom floor and through my own ****ing laziness I couldn’t be arsed to straighten the very last nail on the carpet gripper so I got an ordinary nail, banged it in and immediately heard a hissing sound. Yep, I'd gone right through a heating pipe.
I ripped the floor up and got a jet of water in my face for my trouble. When I saw where it had gone through, I could have honestly cried! Right into a 22mm compression Tee. Not even enough room to get a wrench onto the nut.
I had a sod of a job doing it. Managed to find an old 22mm straight compression connector in my box of bits, a tin of 15 year old jointing compound that had to stir back to life, some new olives and nuts from a 90° compression and a piece of pipe that was juuuust long enough to join where I could get a wrench on it - had to take half an inch off of it. Had to drill and chop the joist about to be able to get a wrench on the nut and with a bit of levering I was able to get the pipe in and tightened.
Pressurised the system and ran it for a while. Seems okay but I’ll check it again in the morning before having another go at putting the floor back down tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’m in the doghouse proper with Mrs Mottie. I felt like Frank Spencer getting told off by Betty but Mrs Mottie was using words that Betty never would say to Frank!
