On 18 May 2006 13:03:21 -0700, "HankC" wrote:


I own a duplex unit that is between tenants and getting new tile floors
to replace the old vinyl...

The installer pulled the quarter-round *and* a nail that was driven
through the molding and into the plastic house main supply water line
coming up out of the slab!

Turning off the water at the street did not completely stop the flow ;(
but I managed to clamp and seal it (after using the nail as a plug).

I figure that 2 inch (!) casing nail had been there since the last
floor was installed, maybe 10 years ago...

Oh, the joys of owning...


HankC

Like the guy walking around with a framing nail in his head for a few
days, until his dental hygienist wife made him see the dentist. The
next move was the ER.

Oren
"My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland
and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore
excused from saving Universes."