Funny tales from the job

[ScottG13]

My other brother in law (I've just spotted a pattern here) filled up with diesel instead of petrol. Not his car, Tesco garage! He is a tanker driver and delivers fuel! That must have cost a fortune to put right, he kept his job.... just.

 

[SandyFloor]

I'm currently flooring a house extension. My work had been put off as it transpired the joiner had put a screw through a pipe when fitting the chipboard floor and flooded under the floor. It was opened up a let dry for about three weeks. When the joiner refixed the chipboard.............he did it again. I started the job on Monday after a delay of six weeks. I don't know if he still has his job.

 

[Pebbs]

I turned up to do a quote a couple of weeks ago, for an office fit out. Walked in the reception gave my name and then then gave me a pass card, escorted me to a computer and said someone would be along shortly to explain things...Strange I thought, but let it pass, 10 minutes later a red faced building surveyor came rushing through apologising. They only thought I was the office temp for the week in the accounts payable!

Pebbs

 

[ScottG13]

When the joiner refixed the chipboard.............he did it again.

Nooooooo! nothing like learning by your mistakes

 

[SandyFloor]

Another one from a few years ago and apologies if I'm repeating it.

I was working with a joiner ripping up a water damaged chipboard floor in a house and replacing it. The owners were both out but their 20 year old goth son was in. About 2pm the house phone rang he appeared at the kitchen door to say 'someone' was on the phone asking when we'd be finished. My mate asked him who it was. The boy walked back to the phone to ask and came back a few seconds later and said "it's my mum."

 

[chrisroe]

Had to tile my mates dads house bathroom it's had carpet down for years
Took that out and my uncle tested how strong the floor was in front of the shower straight through the boards upto his nuts through the ceiling into the lounge so the answer was not very
so floor has to come up as its like weetabix set his circular saw to half depth of the flooring straight through the main heating pipe so now the big hole in the ceiling is now a downstairs shower could not find a drain on the boiler system or a rad so its bucket time

two days of sorting all this mess out last piece of ply going down x marked the spot Not to put a screw as heating pipe ran under yep he put it straight through again

i knackered my back during all this so one of the lads i had on my books did all the tiling and he left a couple of tiles lipping i wasnt happy with so i went back took them out and re layed them on the way out of the door all done with my tools in one hand i snagged my top on the door handle and dropped my hammer smashing a tile right by the door

one to look back on and think im alive and im breathing so all is fine

 

[Graham100]

A builder I worked for occasionally years ago was re-boarding and re-felting a flat extension roof. It housed a ground floor bathroom. While the boards were off his apprentice put his foot between the joists, through the bathroom ceiling below and onto the bathroom cabinet which came off the wall and smashed the basin.
Enough for one job you might be forgiven for thinking...the day after the same lad reversed the truck into the pitch boiler and knocked it all over the guy's lawn! :hurray::lol:No he wasn't sacked before you ask.

 

[Andy Allen]

i spent all week once calling an irish guy called seamus (pronounced shamus) how it was spelt sea-mus.......doh thought it was a strange name.

 

[mz30]

Was doing a job for my uncle once was only about 18,a little splash back round his bath and sink,does the job and he asks if i can put up a medicine cabinet for him i said ok but i have no drill he says thats okay just nail into the wooden frame contraption he had above the sink(still dont know what the frame was for)so i does it hangs the cabinet and starts tidying up everything except the hammer which i left on top of the cabinet ,bad move i goes to grab the hammer it slips and in slow motion(or it appeared so at the time)the hammer went straight through the sink,it was one of the old types with a double skin,shouts my uncle he says its okay son will super glue it back together and then proceeds to stick his fingers together 🙂

 

[Mike]

my bob a job brother in law (i wouldn't trust him to put a nail in the wall) was doing some plumbing work for someone in their bathroom. the people came home from shopping and walked into their kitchen to see his head sticking through the ceiling from above and he said 'don't worry your insurance will cover it'. he'd only put his foot through the ceiling! they sued him no surprise!