On 10/10/2020 11:24, charles wrote:

My BiL, when chasing out the party wall to take a cooker point hit rather
too hard and the next door neighbours . looking through the hole said "Will
you take your brick out of our bath."

Similar thing happened in reverse for my son in law back in his bachelor
days when the pub next door was having some alterations done. They kept
him happy until the damage was fixed by passing pints to him through the
hole.