cover up

[ray316]

Come on now you honest lot have you ever covered up something that's gone wrong or any accidents.Mine is the missus asked me to paint the bedroom, l emulsioned the ceiling and walls fine.Went onto glossing the skirting boards and was on my last bit when l stood up lost my balance and kicked a tin of gloss over.We had only bought the carpet ,l panicked knowing the other half would be home soon.l scrapped up as much as l could and used a couple of bottles of turps with new towels to clean it up.The room stunk of turps but l blamed the smell on the solvent paint.It came out ok, and to this day the other half has'nt a clue.

 

[JohnD]

I have now



Mrs 316

 

[ray316]

I have now



Mrs 316

If she only knew, l would be in the doghouse.

 

[gcol]

Be a man dammit! Tell her nothing in the first instance. If she smells turps, tell her you spilled some paint. If she's still got a problem, tell her to do it in future. If she's still whinging, give her a Chorley kiss and go to the pub. Get a grip dude!

 

[comms]

Back when I fitted carphones for a living, I had to drill a 12mm hole in the roof of a brand spanking new white rangerover to fit the antenna, unfortunately I measured wrong so drilled in the wrong place, inch or so to far to the nearside off centre. So I taped over the underside of the hole with gaffer tape then used silicone to fill the hole, when that dried I used tipex to colour the silicone, so far as I know nobody was ever the wiser as the customer never complained in the following 2 years I was there.

One of the other fitters drilled and fitted a body mount antenna in the rear wing of a jag xjs, only he forgot that the boot lid had a spoiler on it, so now it wont close due to the position of the antenna. he solved the problem by drilling a larger hole in the spoiler to pass over the antenna and told the customer it was a new recomendation from jaguar.

 

[RF Lighting]

I was fitting some external lights. Spent ages measuring up, then when drilling (aiming for between groung floor ceiling and 1st floor floorboards). The meter long drill bit popped out of the coving in the living room, gouging a half meter channel in the artexed ceiling.

Managed to plaster up, artex and paint before the customer returned. She never said anything .

Also in another house my apprentice slipped of a joist, putting his foot through the papered ceiling below. More plaster and paint. Never heard anything about that either

 

[RigidRaider]

Back to carpets - as a teenager my parents had just shelled out a fortune to re-carpet the entire house. A few days later I knocked over a tin of silver model paint right in the middle of my bedroom floor. Having watched the carpet fitters at work I knew about joining and direction of nap so, heart in mouth I got a Stanley knife, cut out a square around the blob of paint, cut a piece from some leftover, checked the direction of the nap, manouvered some sticky tape through the hole, sticky side up, then carefully fitted the patch, which I'd made slightly oversize and hammered it down then ruffled the surface.

Result? Invisible - and Mum never noticed in several years of vacuuming.

 

[empip]

Jangle of spurs with a thunder of hooves !!