What not to do at a client's house....

[marcus]

Drop a full tin of Osmo on the carpet. Like I did today. Schoolboy error.

 

[carlb40]

Did it give a nice sheen to the carpet :mrgreen:

 

[marcus]

I don't think we'll know till it's gone off :?

 

[Bradshaw Joinery]

Couldnt you just burn it off like the oil boys do?

 

[Steve Maskery]

Ouch!
Whilst I'm so very tempted to make a joke about it, I can see that the reality must be far from funny.
Please tell us what happens now. I'm sure we can all learn from this episode.
S

 

[Nick Gibbs]

Hard luck. I once put a drill bit through a customer's phone line. Amazingly they asked me back to their next house, where I put a nail through a central heating pipe, just before breaking my collar bone and being off 'games' for six weeks! I eventually finished the job, but haven't heard from them since! Oh the tales we have to tell. I really miss working on site: it was a good laugh (most of the time).

Nick

 

[yetloh]

Hope you are insured.

Jim

 

[Chrispy]

Whooow, expensive accident, (how much is a tin of Osmo now?) #-o

 

[marcus]

I am insured, fortunately!

It could have been worse. It's quite a small carpet. It didn't splash anything else. And the clients were out all day so I was able to go home and get a carpet cleaner, which did a surprisingly good job of getting up the worst of it. Worst case scenario at the moment looks like I will be paying for a new carpet less the cost of the bill I was going to send for the work I did, but I haven't heard from them yet.....

So not too bad, but still it was a truly horrible moment when it happened!

 

[ColeyS1]

Reminds me of makita chucks that work loose dropping hole saws onto tiled floors :evil: hope it all works out. I can 100% say I would have swore

 

[doctor Bob]

Not me but working on a £10million pound house in Chelsea and one of the builders trod dog poo up 3 flights of stairs with white carpets, inch thick pile, think it must have been a great dane poo.

 

[chippy1970]

I was on a job last year a huge New build with underground car park, swimming pool the works. Somehow some moron came in the house and put a tin of black paint down on a white silk carpet leaving a big black ring. The carpet was replaced at a cost of £80,000 someones liability insurance must have taken a battering.:shock:

 

[Fromey]

At least you didn't drop it on their cat.

 

[jimmy rivers]

+1 on chucks failing (Hitachi). Had a holesaw slip out and take a bite out of the edge of a bath whist putting in spot lights :shock:

Sometimes worry about the Osmo handles failing, they're not the best design IMHO.

Good luck with the carpet.

 

[tomatwark]

While putting the finishing touches to a kitchen about 10 years ago, I stood up from kneeling and the sheets of hardboard we had protecting the Oak laminate floor slipped under my feet, I reached out to stop myself falling and managed to knock the pile of shelves I was putting in the units off the counter top.

They landed right where the hardboard had been.

To replace the the damaged boards in the floor I had to remove a run of base units which I had fitted the day before. :roll:

Tom

 

[morfa]

I managed to put my foot through my ceiling yesterday. It happens to us all.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

My brother in law was working in an upmarket flat in central London when the plumbers working 3 or 4 floors up caused a big leak that resulted in £4,500,000 of insurance claims.

 

[marcus]

Some good news. The client said she was very pleased with her worktops and would get the carpet sorted out herself! And the invoice has been paid! Very surprised and very relieved. Hooray for nice people

 

[clivethecarpenter]

A ex-work partner of mine got caught using the clients dyson as dust extraction for his chop saw
He even duct taped the dyson to the dust port of the saw !

 

[Nick Gibbs]

I had an old Dyson on my bandsaw for ages. It was brilliant.