Let this be a warning to those of you who like to play little workplace pranks - you never know who might be watching and you might just hurt yourself!
Friday, 30 November 2007
Friday, 23 November 2007
You mind how you go now - the German way
Of course, Harry the Hammer would also want you to mind how you go. I'm also up for proper training to reduce the number of accidents in the workplace and whilst using DIY tools and equipment.
But I couldn't possibly illustrate the dangers of using workplace tools and equipment as good as the Germans.
Here's a German training video and .... well they do it so well don't they?
You mind how you go now.
Harry
But I couldn't possibly illustrate the dangers of using workplace tools and equipment as good as the Germans.
Here's a German training video and .... well they do it so well don't they?
You mind how you go now.
Harry
Monday, 19 November 2007
Top 5 Stupid DIY Accidents - Number 1
And here is our favourite - our number 1 DIY disaster.
It's about a chap called Nigel from Leicester who decided to nail the floorboards down in his bathroom with a DIY staple gun.
Which is fair enough.
However, our Nigel only went and lost his balance and fell over. And as he told TV interviewer Carol Smillie: "I heard the gun go off. I felt a pain in my chest, so I went to take off my jumper, but I couldn't because it was nailed to my chest."
It was later revealed at hospital that the nail was an inch inside his heart, and a single millimetre away from the main artery. However, the most shocking, and most stupid, aspect of the story, is that he actually considered removing the nail with pliers before dialling 999.
And certain death would have followed.
You mind how you go now.
Harry.
It's about a chap called Nigel from Leicester who decided to nail the floorboards down in his bathroom with a DIY staple gun.
Which is fair enough.
However, our Nigel only went and lost his balance and fell over. And as he told TV interviewer Carol Smillie: "I heard the gun go off. I felt a pain in my chest, so I went to take off my jumper, but I couldn't because it was nailed to my chest."
It was later revealed at hospital that the nail was an inch inside his heart, and a single millimetre away from the main artery. However, the most shocking, and most stupid, aspect of the story, is that he actually considered removing the nail with pliers before dialling 999.
And certain death would have followed.
You mind how you go now.
Harry.
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Top 5 Stupid DIY Accidents - Number 2
Never drink whilst doing your DIY.
Why not?
Well you might suffer the same fate as Paul from Yorkshire, who told the BBC how he went boozing one lunchtime and thought it would be a good idea to partake in a spot of DIY in the afternoon. There was a small piece of wallpaper in the corner of the ceiling that was 'annoying' him and which Paul wanted to remove.
So what did he do? Why, he got a butcher's boning knife and stood on a wobbly chair, of course. Obviously he fell off, and plunged the knife - to the hilt - into his chest, about an inch beside his heart.
Let that be a lesson to you.
You mind how you go.
Harry
Why not?
Well you might suffer the same fate as Paul from Yorkshire, who told the BBC how he went boozing one lunchtime and thought it would be a good idea to partake in a spot of DIY in the afternoon. There was a small piece of wallpaper in the corner of the ceiling that was 'annoying' him and which Paul wanted to remove.
So what did he do? Why, he got a butcher's boning knife and stood on a wobbly chair, of course. Obviously he fell off, and plunged the knife - to the hilt - into his chest, about an inch beside his heart.
Let that be a lesson to you.
You mind how you go.
Harry
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Top 5 Stupid DIY Accidents - Number 3
We like the story of the chap from Gwent who decided to plumb in an outside tap to make watering the garden easier for his sister-in-law.
As his sister-in law tells it, he used a 'DIY outside tap kit' which he fixed to an existing water pipe, puncturing the pipe and allowing the water to flow through the tap when in use.
The problem was that he didn't connect it to the water pipe - but to the flippin' gas pipe!!
So instead of watering the plants, he gassed them.
Don't you despair sometimes?
You mind how you go!
As his sister-in law tells it, he used a 'DIY outside tap kit' which he fixed to an existing water pipe, puncturing the pipe and allowing the water to flow through the tap when in use.
The problem was that he didn't connect it to the water pipe - but to the flippin' gas pipe!!
So instead of watering the plants, he gassed them.
Don't you despair sometimes?
You mind how you go!
Monday, 12 November 2007
Top 5 Stupid DIY Accidents - Number 4
A good fire story is always good for a chuckle - so continuing my Top 5 Stupid DIY Accidents, here's my Number 4.
Blokes always get a bit excited when they get to play with fire, as was the case with David from Sutton when he decided to use a blowtorch for a spot of paint removal.
He was tackling a sash window in the bathroom. As he did the work, David was a bit worried about the temperature of the torch he was using to remove the paint, but, after a hard day of work and the job complete, there was no smoke, and no fire.
Unfortunately, as David descended the stairs at the end of the day for a hard-earned beer, he was unaware that a spark of fire had caused the window frame to catch alight. Quickly, the whole window frame was alight, billowing smoke into the whole of the house. By the time that it was discovered, it seemed the whole house was doomed. Luckily, the fire was in the bathroom, so a speedy release of the shower meant that eventually the fire was doused out.
A torch on timber? David, what were you thinking of?
Mind how you go now.
Harry
Blokes always get a bit excited when they get to play with fire, as was the case with David from Sutton when he decided to use a blowtorch for a spot of paint removal.
He was tackling a sash window in the bathroom. As he did the work, David was a bit worried about the temperature of the torch he was using to remove the paint, but, after a hard day of work and the job complete, there was no smoke, and no fire.
Unfortunately, as David descended the stairs at the end of the day for a hard-earned beer, he was unaware that a spark of fire had caused the window frame to catch alight. Quickly, the whole window frame was alight, billowing smoke into the whole of the house. By the time that it was discovered, it seemed the whole house was doomed. Luckily, the fire was in the bathroom, so a speedy release of the shower meant that eventually the fire was doused out.
A torch on timber? David, what were you thinking of?
Mind how you go now.
Harry
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