Rob Morley wrote:
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BTW, welcome to the club and the moral of your story - is ALWAYS
check before cutting or nailing through floorboards :-)

How do you check before cutting when you have to cut the floor to
check what's under it?

Ah! Therein lies the skill -- and an educated guess!

The easiest and safest way is NOT to use power tools but to take up a single
piece of flooring simply by *gently* cutting through the tongues with a
padsaw or a hammer and chisel, lift that piece of flooring and then use the
scientific method of 'sticking your head down' to have a good look around -
or merely sticking your arm in as far as it will go for (dare I say it) a
good feel around. LOL

Oh aye! You could use one of those new fangled metal and stud detectors as
long as the pipes are not plastic.

Or the installer(s)/chippies could have left screwed 'traps' somewhere along
the length of the pipes or cables that could be pulled up - personally, when
I was 'on the tools', I tried whenever possible, to ensure that I screwed
the floorboards immediately over the pipe/cables down and marked them.


Brian G