What a dummy!

[Mar_mite]

I've been laying a squash court floor this week, easy. Screw the first board down to the batterns. Lay the floor away from that, t&g boards fixed with porta nailer until you get to the last board and screw that one down. Then I realised that I'd hidden my makita drill and impact driver halfway under the floor when I went for lunch. What an silly person. They can stay there now.

 

[CHJ]

Hope the batteries don't corrode and cause problems, not Lithium by any chance?

 

[dickm]

I've been laying a squash court floor this week, easy. Screw the first board down to the batterns. Lay the floor away from that, t&g boards fixed with porta nailer until you get to the last board and screw that one down. Then I realised that I'd hidden my makita drill and impact driver halfway under the floor when I went for lunch. What an silly person. They can stay there now.

thanks for sharing that. If a young 'un can do it, there's a bit more of an excuse for us oldies. I wonder which house now has my Yankee under it's floorboards......................?

 

[Mar_mite]

Hope the batteries don't corrode and cause problems, not Lithium by any chance?

Yes they are. Corrosion did cross my mind. I am a member of the club, so I can keep an eye/nose out for anything. Will it smell if it corrodes? Are lithium worse?

 

[Woodchips2]

Hope the batteries don't corrode and cause problems, not Lithium by any chance?

Yes they are. Corrosion did cross my mind. I am a member of the club, so I can keep an eye/nose out for anything. Will it smell if it corrodes? Are lithium worse?

All I could ever smell (and taste) on a squash court was sweat :roll:

Regards Keith

 

[dejaa]

HI
ooops!!! We've all done it

Actually Lithium reacts with moisture exothermically, the reaction forming Lithium hydroxide and highly flammable hydrogen. Best hope there's no dodgy wiring down there!!

David

 

[n0legs]

That's truly bad luck mate, we've all done similar. I dropped a level down a cavity once and if it hadn't been my mums house I'd have got the pipper back, daddy wasn't playing fair that day.

 

[Mar_mite]

It's dry as a bone down there. And well ventilated. They have got to stay there now. It's too much to take it all up again.

 

[bugbear]

It's dry as a bone down there. And well ventilated. They have got to stay there now. It's too much to take it all up again.

Any scope for taking up a couple of edge boards and "fishing" with a BIG magnet?

BugBear

 

[Mar_mite]

It's dry as a bone down there. And well ventilated. They have got to stay there now. It's too much to take it all up again.

Any scope for taking up a couple of edge boards and "fishing" with a BIG magnet?

BugBear

I've accepted I've lost them. Said my good buys and gone through the grieving process. Now it's new drill time. Yippee.