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[Closed] Drilled a hole in the wrong place, excuses needed please

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21715329

Lots of red faces all round it would appear. 😯


 
Posted : 08/03/2013 9:46 pm
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And that's why you should buy one of those devices for checking if there's cables or pipes behind the wall you're about to drill into.


 
Posted : 08/03/2013 9:48 pm
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hit a boulder and veered off course


 
Posted : 08/03/2013 9:55 pm
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fill it with newspaper stuffed into the hole then a bit a filler on top.


 
Posted : 08/03/2013 9:58 pm
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Hang a picture over the hole, that's what I'd do. We have a lot of pictures in our house.


 
Posted : 08/03/2013 10:00 pm
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It was like it when I found it............


 
Posted : 08/03/2013 10:00 pm
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Wheres are little dutch boy when you need him?

Still [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur ]could have been worse[/url]


 
Posted : 08/03/2013 10:02 pm
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A few (hundred) cans of expanding foam. It'll be stronger than before. 🙂


 
Posted : 08/03/2013 10:02 pm
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Doh, reminds me of the time the wooden hall floor in the school my wife works at was refitted due to warping caused by the underfloor heating system. They had to take the floor up, the heating pipes up, excavate the floor and re do everything properly, it took months. Anyway when the job was 99% finished a guy came out to re do the fixings in the floor for the fold out wall climbing frames, he drilled down into the floor and hit an underfloor heating pipe 😯


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 4:48 pm
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Mac, that is the funniest link ever.


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 5:02 pm
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Mac, that is the funniest link ever.

There's video too.


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 5:52 pm
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I love the video. shame its so fuzzy though.


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 5:59 pm
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Mfr...

Well the copy of the drawing I got off the system showed the dimension as blah blah....

Design...

The drawing is correct...

Mfr...

Yes, but you lot in design have changed it in secret

If I had a pound for every....


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 8:43 pm
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One for the closet geologists.

Not a drilling mishap, but this massive landslide in Rissa (Norway) in 1978 was triggered by a farmer excavating earth for a new foundation for his barn.


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 10:55 pm