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Selfbuild 007
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Location: Weardale, Co.Durham
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 Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:05 am Post subject: Noggin the best time to make new friends. |
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A few years back I bought a house and was in the process of renovating it. I had not met the old guy who lived next door but that was about to change.
I was in the bathroom ripping out the old suite (Lime Green)(they must have had a lock stock sale of them where I live as I have been in several homes recently that still have them fitted) anyway after successfully removing the rancid suite it was time for the shower. The old power shower was fiited to a stud wall fitted to the adjoining wall between the two houses. When the stud was out there was a chock of wood sticking out of the adjoining wall about 2 inches.
Not knowing whatt it was I gave it a bat with the hammer thinking it will end up in the cavity. It dissapeared
About 40 minutes later there was a knock on the door with this old boy standing there. "Can you have a look at this for me he says".
He takes me in his house, into his bathroom and there are tiles all over his shower floor and a great piece of wood sticking through the wall.
The worst is the poor chap doesn't realise that it has come through from our house and asks me if I can repair it for a price.
I re-tiled his whole shower, supplying everything, Knocked the wood back into our house and pulled it out filled the hole. When I'd finished he asked for his bill.
I said I did it for free as we were new neighbours and materials hadn't cost me anything as they were surplus from our refurb.
We only told him the truth 2 years later when we sold, he laughed his cotton socks off and dropped £200 through the letterbox. We still call in and see the old boy and still laugh about it.... lol
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Selfbuild 007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:08 am Post subject: |
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Just to confirm, we did not keep the money!!! We are not rogues even though we are from the North East lol
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skiking
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Hinton Heating
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:29 am Post subject: |
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nice one....
I know if i take off the cooker switch, I can see the back of the neighbours cooker switch!
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ultimatehandyman
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Location: Darwen, Lancashire
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: |
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I know two people that have had similar problems.
I just hope that if my next door neighbour does it, that I'm not sat on the bog at the time 
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Wood Magnet
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Location: sunderland
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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I did the same thing in a refit on a job once,
i was told to knock down a wall as it was supposedly
a rear exit that had been bricked up, i did point out
that the wall was an adjoining wall to the tailor's
shop next door, i was then told "I'm running this job,not you,
just knock it down". Well in those day's anbody talking to me
like that usually got "knocked down" but as work was scarce
i bit my tongue(until the job was finished) and picked up the sledgy
then choosing a spot i gave it a whack.......nothing, whack....nothing,
now i was about 16 stone and built like Chez on steroids, my mate Sid was about 20 stone and fat, he said "hit the fu**ing thing you wimp"
so whack.....there was a loud "pop" and a hole appeared,"Sid" i said
"there's a light in there" with that Sid took off like a scalded cat with
me in pursuit, every time his left arm came back i tried to give him
the sledgy (like relay runners) but he would'nt grab it. When we
calmed down and went to see the tailor he was standing in his
doorway with a half brick in his hand,and a face redder than Angie's
walls. "Can i have my brick back Mister" i said,trying to bring
humour to the situation, funnily it did'nt work and he swore at me  Anyway Sid did the apology bit and said the boss would
be around to sort things out (which meant a new wallpaper job and
hole repair) The next morning the tailor was waiting for us when
we got to work and he apologised for swearing  and said that when
the shock had wore off he'd laughed most of the night at the event.
Sid even got 3 pair of trousers for free. Fat git 
Oh! and i did'nt knock the boss down when the job finished he got
sacked for reading the plans wrong.
From the memoirs of Sunderland's Hole in the Wall Gang 
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Hinton Heating
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Pitball's Glory Hole service!
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