When laying laminate flooring, pick up all the spare pieces off the floor
before walking around with a cheapy 5Kg SDS in your hand.

They make great skateboards. :-)

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"Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)" wrote in message
. ..
When laying laminate flooring, pick up all the spare pieces off the floor
before walking around with a cheapy 5Kg SDS in your hand.

They make great skateboards. :-)

And don't balance a claw hammer precariously on a shaver light directly over
a newly installed china bathroom basin :-(

When laying laminate flooring, pick up all the spare pieces off the
floor before walking around with a cheapy 5Kg SDS in your hand.

I find it very useful not to forget that you've moved the concrete blocks
you've been using as a step all morning, especially when stepping off an
450mm high platform.

Christian.

"Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)" wrote in message
. ..
When laying laminate flooring, pick up all the spare pieces off the floor
before walking around with a cheapy 5Kg SDS in your hand.

They make great skateboards. :-)

and if you spot your battery drill sitting in the kitchen doorway with drill
bit fitted and think to yourself "I'm likely to kick that sooner or later",
you probably will, and with bare feet, and the pointy end .....

"brugnospamsia" wrote in
. uk:


and if you spot your battery drill sitting in the kitchen doorway with
drill bit fitted and think to yourself "I'm likely to kick that
sooner or later", you probably will, and with bare feet, and the
pointy end .....

And if you've got a cheapo blowlamp without spark ignition that you leave
going behind you for a moment in the bathroom while you offer up a bit of
pipework - bin it right away and get a sparky one and turn it off *every*
time...

mike

mike ring wrote:
"brugnospamsia" wrote in
. uk:


and if you spot your battery drill sitting in the kitchen doorway with
drill bit fitted and think to yourself "I'm likely to kick that
sooner or later", you probably will, and with bare feet, and the
pointy end .....


And if you've got a cheapo blowlamp without spark ignition that you leave
going behind you for a moment in the bathroom while you offer up a bit of
pipework - bin it right away and get a sparky one and turn it off *every*
time...

mike
A few years ago someone did that in the roof of the then DEC building in
Basingstoke. Took out the whole building which eventually cost the
fireservice £10M because they didn't get there quick enough. Dunno what
happened to the guy with the blowlamp; off making havoc elsewhere probably.

OldBill wrote in
:



And if you've got a cheapo blowlamp without spark ignition that you
leave going behind you for a moment in the bathroom while you offer
up a bit of pipework - bin it right away and get a sparky one and
turn it off *every* time...

mike
A few years ago someone did that in the roof of the then DEC building
in Basingstoke. Took out the whole building which eventually cost the
fireservice £10M because they didn't get there quick enough. Dunno
what happened to the guy with the blowlamp; off making havoc elsewhere
probably.

*This* guy nearly burned his foot off at the ankle ;-((

mike

When you're outside burning off old paint from a sash window with a propane
gas heat gun - make sure that the curtains inside have been taken down.

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:11:14 GMT, "Picker"
wrote:

When you're outside burning off old paint from a sash window with a propane
gas heat gun - make sure that the curtains inside have been taken down.

lol ..

Why *do* we do these things .. we *know* the potential consequences
(I think I've done all mentioned in the thread so far) yet we still
manage to do them .. ;-(

I still own / use the 3' high set of wooden steps that I fell off and
broke my leg when I was a kid ..! I mean it wasn't the steps fault as
such .. but I think there's something evil about them .. shudder.

And why when showing my daughter just *how* sharp the new craft knife
I bought her was, how did I end up cutting myself (well it made her
laugh anyway) sigh.

How many times have we had that 'if that slips that's gonna hurt'
thought (but we carry on fiddling with the grenade anyway? Ah, just me
then ..) ;-(

All the best .. and keep safe ;-)

T i m

After laying the first sheet of chipboard in the loft - try to resist the
temptation to step back and admire your handiwork !

Before nailing down that last floorboard down, check that you've got all
the tools you took down there present and accounted for....

Andy.

In article , "andrewpreece"
says...
Before nailing down that last floorboard down, check that you've got all
the tools you took down there present and accounted for....

Before nailing down any floorboards make sure you've noted the
position of the pipe/cable that you've just fixed.

In article , andrewpreece
wrote:

Before nailing down that last floorboard down, check that you've got all
the tools you took down there present and accounted for....

Plus a quick head count of the cats of the house.

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http://www.classicmicrocars.co.uk : http://www.ajlelectronics.co.uk

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:22:26 +0100,it is alleged that "Andy Luckman
(AJL Electronics)" spake thusly in uk.d-i-y:

In article , andrewpreece
wrote:

Before nailing down that last floorboard down, check that you've got all
the tools you took down there present and accounted for....

Plus a quick head count of the cats of the house.

That doesn't always work though g

8 months ago I was staying with a friend in Canada and was helping to
pay for my stay by partly remodeling the house for sale. We had all
cats accounted for before closing up the basement ceiling after
rewiring the lights.

One of the cats subsequently went totally insane trying to dig through
the drywall to get into the ceiling to feed her 3 kittens that we had
NO idea she'd had :-O (being only 3 kittens and _that_ kind of cat,
she hadn't shown symptoms of being with child.

All ended well though, all 3 kittens survived, and so did the ceiling
after some patching where I had to cut a slab of it out to get to the
kittens.

--
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something
about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is
purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." - Stephen Hawking

Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
In article , andrewpreece
wrote:


Before nailing down that last floorboard down, check that you've got all
the tools you took down there present and accounted for....


Plus a quick head count of the cats of the house.

haha.

I plastered a whole bottle of PVA into a stud wall once....

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Before nailing down that last floorboard down, check that you've got all
the tools you took down there present and accounted for....
Plus a quick head count of the cats of the house.
haha.
I plastered a whole bottle of PVA into a stud wall once....

Heard of someone who bricked up a transistor radio.

Whilst it was playing...

Owain

Franko wrote:
After laying the first sheet of chipboard in the loft - try to resist the
temptation to step back and admire your handiwork !

Lol! Did that by any chance leave the mystery admirer now looking up,
admiring some more handiwork?

NT

wrote in message
oups.com...
Franko wrote:
After laying the first sheet of chipboard in the loft - try to resist the
temptation to step back and admire your handiwork !

Lol! Did that by any chance leave the mystery admirer now looking up,
admiring some more handiwork?

NT

Almost! It left me looking at a sore back, bruised head, gashed leg and
almost every other part of my body aching