On Saturday, November 30, 2013 7:29:37 PM UTC, stuart noble wrote:
On 30/11/2013 19:07, SteveW wrote:

On 30/11/2013 09:25, stuart noble wrote:

On 30/11/2013 09:12, Tim Lamb wrote:

In message , Tim Watts

writes

On Friday 29 November 2013 23:02 SteveW wrote in uk.d-i-y:



I am currently in the middle of re-doing our bathroom. Tomorrow the

bath

and its waste pipe are due to come out. This morning I was having a

shower, only for my wife to shout that water was coming through the

ceiling. Normally I'd have stopped showering and investigated, but my

current contract is ending and I was due at an interview for another

company at 08:00, so had no choice but to finish off.



Got back at lunchtime to find a chunk of the hall ceiling on the floor

and chunks of plasterboard falling off every few minutes.



After 18 years in the house, a joint in the middle of the waste pipe

that has been there longer than that has slipped off the day before it

was due to be ripped out.



I presume it was disturbed by the other work - or maybe it was a

pre-emptive strike.



SteveW



Oh man - what a bitch!



My mother referred to this phenomena as *the animosity of inanimate

objects*





Sounds like it had always been an acccident waiting to happen due to the

incompetence of a human. I'm with the inanimate objects on this one



I've found a few booby traps over the years.



This one is where they have run the waste from the bath to outside, but

tee-d in a connection from the washbasin - where the push-fit tee was

hanging from the bottom of a 45� pipe, with no other support for the tee

or the pipe! Of course all this was hidden under the floor, under the bath.



A previous one, discovered when there was some work on the water mains

and some grit stuck the ball-cock slightly open, was that when fitting

the overflow to the header tank, they'd changed their minds after

drilling a small hole through the tank (looks like they'd used a high

speed wood drill, but stopped when only the tip had gone through) - of

course they'd not sealed off the hole and then had fitted the overflow

on the other side and three inches higher! I found that one, when

getting up at 04:00 for a business trip, I squelched across the landing..



I also found the obligatory nail through the lead gas pipe and another

gas pipe turning through 180� and almost flat at the top of the curve.



SteveW





The joys of the property bubble! I don't know how the buggers sleep at

night.

My son's electrician drilled through the gas pipe last week, and missed

the mains water supply by half an inch. Neither was anywhere near where

you'd expect them to be. Needless to say the cables were running

diagonally across the kitchen wall, and all this behind a posh Smeg

cooker.

Smeg ? Posh? Think not. SWMBO had Smeg dishwasher and larder fridge fitted a few years back. Overpriced rubbish, even though I got it wholesale. Am now getting ear bent for Miele