On 25 Nov, 21:22, Peter smith
wrote:
I thought I'd grab partners drill and have a go at putting my pan rack
thingy up. OK its a normal drill, and I put in a masonary bit, drilled
in and it went ok for about 1.5 inches then it was like mutant rock!!!
It would not budge!! .. SO I put it on hammer action and it chipped away
a little more but not no where near enough to put a raw plug in as per
instructions saying. PArtner is too busy laughing at my attemtp to get a
straight answer out of him, I think he passed oput from laughter for
some reason lol... I did ask him for months ot put it up but hes has not.

Any ideas what I''m doing wrong ?

... be gentle am a bit wet behind the ears with DIY I usually just do
the painting lol.

In my kitchen, I have two gas pipes and two metal capped power cables
running under the plaster and I've managed to hit them all! The good
news is that a masonry bit doesn't make any serious progress into any
of them so, although you wind up with half a hole that you can't use,
you don't set fire to the house! I would check carefully before
trying too hard to put the shelf in exactly that place.....

I'm glad to hear you have such a supportive and sympathetic
partner ...........

"GMM" wrote in message
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On 25 Nov, 21:22, Peter smith
wrote:
I thought I'd grab partners drill and have a go at putting my pan rack
thingy up. OK its a normal drill, and I put in a masonary bit, drilled
in and it went ok for about 1.5 inches then it was like mutant rock!!!
It would not budge!! .. SO I put it on hammer action and it chipped away
a little more but not no where near enough to put a raw plug in as per
instructions saying. PArtner is too busy laughing at my attemtp to get a
straight answer out of him, I think he passed oput from laughter for
some reason lol... I did ask him for months ot put it up but hes has
not.

Any ideas what I''m doing wrong ?

... be gentle am a bit wet behind the ears with DIY I usually just do
the painting lol.

In my kitchen, I have two gas pipes and two metal capped power cables
running under the plaster and I've managed to hit them all! The good
news is that a masonry bit doesn't make any serious progress into any
of them so, although you wind up with half a hole that you can't use,
you don't set fire to the house! I would check carefully before
trying too hard to put the shelf in exactly that place.....

I'm glad to hear you have such a supportive and sympathetic
partner ...........


I was thrown off a step ladder when drilling through the top of a wooden
door frame. No one had told me that the idiot of the house.........sorry,
man of the house had used 10 mm Twin and Earth cable to connect a separate
consumer unit in his garage. His installation only had the main 100Amp fuse
on it, because he'd taken his cable directly from the mains supply head to
his house. Trust me to hit the live conductor and make an earth of myself.
I didn't even feel it. In fact, I couldn't feel anything for weeks
afterwards. :-)

When he saw what had happened, and had sworn at him for about five minutes,
he told me he'd asked the guy from the electricity board if it was alright
to do it like that and was told it would be fine, as no one would be able to
touch it above the door frame.

I was only installing an alarm system and didn't expect to find an
unprotected cable of that manner. At first I thought it was a cooker cable,
until he told me exactly what it was. It didn't even go through the meter.

The cheeky bugger asked if my insurance would cover the repair to the cable.
That's when I asked if his insurance would cover the fines he'd have to pay
for the theft of service he'd committed. He still thought he was in the
right, because the man from the electricity board had told him it was OK.

I have never did find that man from the leccy board, but when I do, there
will be flames, believe me. :-)

So, the moral of the story is, make sure you know what's in there, "before"
you start drilling any holes.

BigWallop wrote:
"GMM" wrote in message
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On 25 Nov, 21:22, Peter smith
wrote:
I thought I'd grab partners drill and have a go at putting my pan rack
thingy up. OK its a normal drill, and I put in a masonary bit, drilled
in and it went ok for about 1.5 inches then it was like mutant rock!!!
It would not budge!! .. SO I put it on hammer action and it chipped away
a little more but not no where near enough to put a raw plug in as per
instructions saying. PArtner is too busy laughing at my attemtp to get a
straight answer out of him, I think he passed oput from laughter for
some reason lol... I did ask him for months ot put it up but hes has
not.

Any ideas what I''m doing wrong ?

... be gentle am a bit wet behind the ears with DIY I usually just do
the painting lol.

In my kitchen, I have two gas pipes and two metal capped power cables
running under the plaster and I've managed to hit them all! The good
news is that a masonry bit doesn't make any serious progress into any
of them so, although you wind up with half a hole that you can't use,
you don't set fire to the house! I would check carefully before
trying too hard to put the shelf in exactly that place.....

I'm glad to hear you have such a supportive and sympathetic
partner ...........


I was thrown off a step ladder when drilling through the top of a wooden
door frame. No one had told me that the idiot of the house.........sorry,
man of the house had used 10 mm Twin and Earth cable to connect a separate
consumer unit in his garage. His installation only had the main 100Amp fuse
on it, because he'd taken his cable directly from the mains supply head to
his house. Trust me to hit the live conductor and make an earth of myself.
I didn't even feel it. In fact, I couldn't feel anything for weeks
afterwards. :-)

When he saw what had happened, and had sworn at him for about five minutes,
he told me he'd asked the guy from the electricity board if it was alright
to do it like that and was told it would be fine, as no one would be able to
touch it above the door frame.

I was only installing an alarm system and didn't expect to find an
unprotected cable of that manner. At first I thought it was a cooker cable,
until he told me exactly what it was. It didn't even go through the meter.

The cheeky bugger asked if my insurance would cover the repair to the cable.
That's when I asked if his insurance would cover the fines he'd have to pay
for the theft of service he'd committed. He still thought he was in the
right, because the man from the electricity board had told him it was OK.

I have never did find that man from the leccy board, but when I do, there
will be flames, believe me. :-)

So, the moral of the story is, make sure you know what's in there, "before"
you start drilling any holes.

With a lot of houses there's no way to know. A more sensible approach
would be safer drilling practices, ie not touching any metal part of
the drill while drilling.


NT

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something
like:

So, the moral of the story is, make sure you know what's in there, "before"
you start drilling any holes.

With a lot of houses there's no way to know. A more sensible approach
would be safer drilling practices, ie not touching any metal part of
the drill while drilling.

Or being bloody cautious if drilling within 6" of the door frame, where
many switch cables are anyway.