"Broadback" wrote in message
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I had to cut through a cast iron pipe recently, masked everything, made
a polythene tent, wore a mask, cut it with a cutting disk. Ugh, the
fine black dust got everywhere, including up my nose and in my mouth,
the taste was awful, as it was a toilet pipe I'm sure I could taste the
sh1t, not that I had ever tasted it before. Worse of all the iron in my
mouth reacted with my filling, it was like chewing silver paper.
By far my most unpleasant job what's yours?
I think if I had to do it again I'd buy a reciprocating saw, whatever
the expense.


Removing a lath and plaster knackered ceiling in the kitchen of a 1st floor
1 bed converted victorian flat, whilst still living there. Think that there
was a layer of whatever soot-like substance was used as fire retardent on
top of it as well.

Anyone who's ever removed a l&p ceiling knows what sort of mess I'm talking
about....

Or removing the old loose-fill insulation from the loft space of that same
flat, before reinsulating & boarding. Again, 1/2" of the same soot-like
retardant, and was about July time in a particularly hot summer.

I've done a lot of stuff to my current place, but nothing comes close to
either of those.


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Richard Sampson

mail me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk