Duffers Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Hi All Thought I'd share this with you... Booked a day off work today to fit a phone extension for my mate and to get a few bits done around my house so I toddle over to my friend's this morning at 8am before he sets off to work. I find the master phone socket and discuss with him where he wants the extension socket and then he buggers off - telling me to just pull the front door closed when I'm done as it's on a Yale lock. Super! So, I make a brew, have a quick shuftee through his wife's undie drawers (kidding) and then I start work. Now, where he wants the extension socket means I have to run a cable across a dark varnished skirting board "white cable) so I think... Mmmm, this ain't a solid floor! So, I have a wander around and find a few boards loose in the downstairs central heating cupboard. I lift them up only to find that the guys who fitted the CH had run some of the pipes directly over the access trap. There was a good 2ft of crawl space under there so I did my drilling first and made my access holes and then squeazed between the pipes and got under the floor with my roll of cable. I was quite happily feeding my cable round under the floor and tacking it neatly to the joists and having a little sing to the radio that was on in the lounge. I was down there for about 30 minutes as I wanted to do a neat job. I fed my cable up to my new extension box and crawled back to the access hole so I could get out and fit the extension socket. Now THIS is where things went a little bit pear shaped for me... Imagine this... The pipes that I squeazed past to get under the floor were then cold. Now, the heating is on and said pipes are blast furnace hot! So, from 8.30am till 5.45 when he arrived home - I'm stuck under the floor whailing for help lying on cold concrete for all that time. Plus, at about 1pm, I was DESPERATE to go to the loo and NOT for a wee! I had to, well, I don't want to go into that as it's too bad to talk about but trying to clean your bum with a hand full of brick dust is something that is going to scar me for the rest of my life. NO MORE phone extensions for ANYONE - DON'T CARE WHO THEY ARE! Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class One Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 What did you do with the offending item(s) then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffers Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 Offending item was stabbed with a little cut off piece of 15mm copper pipe that I found down there and then deposited as far away from the access hole as I could get it !! I didn't mention any of this to my mate... But no doubt when I'm round there one night and have had a few beers over Xmas, it will all come out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraStar 3000 Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Lmao!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopite Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 you're never gettin any work from anyone on here dude! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roboldham Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 so let me get this straight - there's a lovely deposit just sitting there under his floorboard still?! excellent! top story. R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Wont that kinda stink? its one of those 'hindsight' jobs isnt it - where you sit and thing, 'now why didnt i think of that before!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffers Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 so let me get this straight - there's a lovely deposit just sitting there under his floorboard still?! excellent! top story. R There sure is! I did do the decent thing though and get it as far from the access hatch as I could AND covered it in bits of mortar and brick dust that was all over the place down there. Anyway, nevermind about that, what about feeling sorry for me! Trying to deliver a log half lying down and on your side is NOT easy! I'm itching to tell my mate and his Mrs about what lurks down there now! He'd laugh but his Mrs would be mortified! Wheres my phone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardiffSupra Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 LOL Y didnt u get get some more paper and clean it up when u got out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terawua Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Just blame it on some vermin..... a large rat or something... really funny story though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bromy Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Funny, i'd keep quiet till they move to their next house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifty Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 shit a brick - hell thats funny:rlol: 52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffers Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 LOL Y didnt u get get some more paper and clean it up when u got out? God, I hope you're joking! I RAN straight to the bog to clean my arse! There was no way I was going down there again! Hehe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffers Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 Funny, i'd keep quiet till they move to their next house They only moved in, in October! Plenty of years yet with Duffer's log lurking down in the depths of their new gaff !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffers Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 shit a brick - hell thats funny:rlol: 52 I don't know about "shit a brick" - more like "shit on a brick!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffers Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 Just blame it on some vermin..... a large rat or something... really funny story though! I'm quite happy to take full responsibility of it when the times comes! I'm NEVER gonna keep this quiet all through Xmas - I JUST CAN'T! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terawua Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 just looked at this thread again... I am still laughing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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