million dollar hole

Anonymous-0 · Jul 19, 2010

redone a room over the last 3 or 4 months. Involved relocating water lines, heating pipes and adding floor heating and a radiator. Fixing a crooked wall by framing and using drywall and used the oportunity to hide some wiring (electric main was running up thewall to the box) and heater pipes to the adjoining room. Everything finished yesterday with new floor tile and tile on the walls. Turned on the heater to check for leaks at the new radiator and a couple other places before putting the access panel in place. walked into the room and all was well except an awful noise in the wall. Shut everything down, felt sorry for myself a little while, and got the hammer & chisel. took out 2 tiles and cut the drywall. Guy hanging the tile fastened a 2x2 so he could start the tiles straight. Ran a screw in the wall and dead center in a 15mm copper elbow for the heater in the next room. quarter inch left, right, or up and all woulda been well.

All good now thanks to a little headscratching, PEX tubing/fittings and a sharkbite fitting. Get to patch the hole tomorrow.

Done now.

Dave

Mike (WA) · Jul 19, 2010

You know those little metal guards that you're supposed to put on the stud, to guard the wire going through said stud? Didn't used to use them. Do now.

I also used to use an aluminum ladder. I use a fiberglass one now.

I shall leave it to the reader to conclude why I have made the above changes.

Vito · Jul 19, 2010

At least they got smarter and made the plates thicker.I have shot a few water pipes and it is never a fun experience.

Vito

Anonymous-0 · Jul 19, 2010

(quoted from post at 14:35:49 07/19/10) At least they got smarter and made the plates thicker.I have shot a few water pipes and it is never a fun experience.

Vito

Couldn't have done a better job if you'da measured and used a center punch. Dead center l/r and up/down on the elbow.

Dave

TonyIN · Jul 19, 2010

Done that to myself.
Was late and in a hurry to finish, trying to put on a cleat for the new soaker tub. Driving a nail in... it refused to go much farther. Thinking that sometimes problems can be solved with the proper application of force, I grabbed my framing hammer and drove that 16 right through the nail plate and into the cold water supply line.
Did I mention it was late and I was in a hurry to finish...? Also had pics of the wall before drywall... didn"t check them either.

Fred Martin · Jul 21, 2010

Have a female friend who had a window air conditioner that was dripping on her floor. I checked it out and tilted it down hill toward the outside. It didn't have a drain hole in it and I didn't have any tools with me. She said she had an electric drill and you guessed it...she drilled right through the freon line. If she had drilled on the other side there was nothing to run into. "Some peoples children have all the luck!" ohfred

The Dukester · Jul 21, 2010

Many years ago when I was a factory maintenance lead man I had one of my people fit a air filter set to a clean room air conditioner evaporator frame. Couple hours went by and the clean room Foreman called me to say the A/C wasn't working very good. I went to investigate and found my man had drilled 14 holes in the coil...he said it didn't hiss much after the first two or three holes so he wasn't too concerned.

Inno · Jul 21, 2010

I worked for a number of years as a satellite installer and drilled literally hundreds of holes in all manner of structure, wood, metal, concrete etc.
Knowing the anatomy of houses pretty well I made good educated guesses as to where would be safe to drill. In all those years I only made one mistake. And where was that mistake? In the living room wall of my first house where I ran smack into an electrical wire, burning the tip off my nice new installer's bit and creating a nice fireworks show.
Turns out the electrician that had wired a previous renovation had been lazy, just my luck. So I spliced in a receptacle in that spot which was right where I needed one anyway.

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