Madness

[Waka]

Yesterday morning I finished laying a ¾" solid oak floor in my living room, put the rads back on the wall and everything was looking good.
I had a little drilling job to do, now I know where all the central heating pipes are, so no problem, when the water started flowing to the atmosphere I started to cry.
Luckily I have a bit of a cellar under the house, so the water went down there and not under the floor. So I had the cut out a bit of flooring to make a repair to the pipe, this is where Festool tools come into there own. Cut out a section of the new floor and the underfloor and repaired the section of pipe, all completed in a couple of hours.

My biggest worry was the floor lifting, it was pre finished which I think May have helped, and today it looks as if I got away with it.
So the moral to this story is, even if you know where the pipes are, you don't. And never mind how experienced you are, you can always learn.

All in all a busy weekend.

 

[dickm]

+1 for all that - had run some pipes up behind the jamb of a door, and when nailing the architrave in place, the nail must have followed the grain and the point just punctured the pipe. Discovered the weep a few days later, drained system and soldered the pinhole. Nailed the architrave back...................... you can guess the rest

 

[Harry 48]

Its surprising how the pipes move from where we know are LOL

 

[blackrodd]

Not too long ago i had to fix a set of oak bookshelves to the usual wibby, wobbly wall, you'd expect in a very old house.
As the radiator pipes came up and fed the rads from the oak floor. I assumed the pipe runs were in the screed, so I started to drill wall fixings. well, was I ever wrong!
I went right through a 22 mm pipe, first time, with an 8 mm bit!
It had been chased into the wall, And i had kept 12" from the rad ends!
As it was the estate office a big bit of blu tac helped my finger stop the worst of the water and as the plumber was present it took 2 hours to fix, so, it was not as drastic as it could have been. And it was a Saturday.
We found that probably owing to odd nails, horse shoes old pipes, we never found any pipe stud finders very accurate, which would have meant not drilling any where.
Regards Rodders