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Be honest - who has fell through a ceiling?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:30 am
by Slugster
Lets all be honest now - I'm sure I'm not the only one who has done this.
And the acid question is, did you straddle the joist
This happened a while back. I had just put up the last of the plasterboard and was lifting the 8x2 boards in through the hatch which is just the other side of the door.
Took a step back and down we went.
But there was a tenth of a second when I thought 'Hey the plaster board is going to h.....'
I skimmed the joist with my arse and fell on the rolls of rock wool I had stacked below.
What a result
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:55 am
by skiking
D'oh, its one of those moment that you can look back on and laugh as you didn't hurt yourself but it could have been a different matter
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:23 pm
by moon133
Lucky!!!!
Welcome to the rest of your life.
P.S. It's cats that have nine lives
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:23 pm
by ultimatehandyman
I have come close a few times, but always managed to avoid doing it so far.
I'm sure it'll happen one day :!:
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:50 pm
by panlid
ive put my foot through a few ceilings. did it once when i was doing a job at my mums house. couldnt believe ide done it and was so annoyed. 30 minutes later i did it again in another part of the ceiling. i packed up my tools for the day and buggered off
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:45 pm
by stevemastic
panlid wrote:ive put my foot through a few ceilings. did it once when i was doing a job at my mums house. couldnt believe ide done it and was so annoyed. 30 minutes later i did it again in another part of the ceiling. i packed up my tools for the day and buggered off
did you leave her with no kitchen ceiling over xmas
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:00 pm
by panlid
i would never do that. i dont know anyone that mean :evil:
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:29 am
by stevemastic
I do
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:57 am
by Hinton Heating
I haven't been through a ceiling, but have lenat on a pipe which was supported by a 10mm threaded bar sat on the platerboard, which went through!
Luckily was above the garage! I was working with a colegue on a weekend job, and we had the landing boards up, he came down the loft ladder, and stood in the hole, through the ceiling, had to come back & plasterboard the ceiling, then pay for it to be artexeted again.
I did once screw down the last floorboard & put the screw through the new heating pipe I'd just layed! oops!
Slugater was lucky, it was a new ceiling, simple to repair... not so good on the old ones!
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:53 pm
by Stoday
stevemastic wrote:I do
So do I.
Didn't he also leave her without a shower too?
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:24 am
by handyman
ffs, would you please try and stop making this forum as childish as TT
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:44 am
by panlid
oooooooo get you
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:11 pm
by Gadget
handyman wrote:ffs, would you please try and stop making this forum as childish as TT
Whats wrong with injecting a bit of silliness now and then?....
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:13 pm
by panlid
i suspect hankly is grumpy due to the fact that since he got his campervan he is just realising what it means to spend his full weekends with his missus
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:36 pm
by Only-Me
I fell through a ceiling in my old house..........right above my bed
artexed ceiling and everything. Pinned a sheet of polythene up as a temp measure...........2 years later got around to fixing it