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[Dangee]

Very very carefully.
At the end of the day, the hole thing is on borrowed time.
You either use a transition coupling or a stainless steel clamp. I need to find what that branch is feeding (or not feeding) . I might be able to completely cut off that leg.
The course is 150 years old, I’m gradually bringing the plumbing & heating there into the 21st century but this has caught us out. Luckily it doesn’t open till the 29th.

 

[fillyboy]

I was fitting a socket in a customer's bedroom. Marked the box in pencil on the wallpaper and stitch drilled the first hole.

There was a metallic rattle, so I stopped drilling and gingerly dug about with a thin bladed screwdriver.

I found a 15mm copper pipe either side of the hole I had drilled.

Closest I have ever been!

Sparkys gone ahead of me to a job I'm starting next week, he's doing first fix to a full rewire, it's a full refurb. Anyway, he said one of the partition walls, he chased out, sunk a box in, drilled and put a couple of screws through the box. he said it didn't feel right when he was drilling, but when he'd finished he went round the other side and the two screws were sticking through the wall, reckons the blocks are only 2.5 to 3 inches thick. I'm curious to see it because I've never seen blocks that thin.

I've told him to leave it as it is for the moment so we've got somewhere to hang our jackets.

 

[durhamplumber]

Well done! I always set the circular saw depth to the exact board depth

First time i used circular saw to cut floorboards. Set depth exact...plus about 35mm!...chopped two 28mm water pipes....upstairs!...not good.

 

[Mottie]

I'm curious to see it because I've never seen blocks that thin.

The walls upstairs in our 60’s semi are about 3” thick but they are a very dense block and hard to chase out. I get loads of black dust when I drill into them - is that what they call cinder block?

 

[Dangee]

We’ve all done it at some point!

 

[securespark]

I've had some real thin blocks on internal non-load bearing walls.

Some were made of what looked like plaster of Paris mixed with straw.

The other type was made of a terracotta-style clay material, hollow, with ridges on. Seen that sort of thing in Spain, but not in the UK before.

If it was a reasonably new wall, I might think it was built by a European worker, but the house was late 1940s and the wall was deffo original. I suppose it's still possible.

 

[teaboyjim]

Anyway, he said one of the partition walls, he chased out, sunk a box in, drilled and put a couple of screws through the box. he said it didn't feel right when he was drilling, but when he'd finished he went round the other side and the two screws were sticking through the wall, reckons the blocks are only 2.5 to 3 inches thick. I'm curious to see it because I've never seen blocks that thin.

Would this partition wall be standing on a downstairs structural wall or would they build a block partition wall straight on a wooden floor supported by wooden joists?

 

[Dangee]

Yeah, cinder block. Horrible to breathe in & it doesn’t chase smoothly. It’s a bit like lava!

 

[securespark]

The walls upstairs in our 60’s semi are about 3” thick but they are a very dense block and hard to chase out. I get loads of black dust when I drill into them - is that what they call cinder block?

I had what I believed to be cinder block in my previous house, built in 1968. The dust was black, but they weren't incredibly dense. Not too difficult to bash out.
The reason I thought it was cinder block was because I knew the builder and when we discussed the house, that's what he called them.

 

[securespark]

They wouldn't ever build a partition wall with blocks straight on a wooden floor supported by wooden joists would they?

I've seen that more than once!

 

[Dangee]

Same. Common practice

 

[fillyboy]

Haven't seen it yet but but my first job is to rip out the kitchen and then two thirds of this wall. It's a bungalow, supposedly a non load bearing wall. Not come across cinder walls in these parts, normally concrete or mud.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

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Back at the golf club, digging up the practice green to find a leak.
Cold, wet & windy!

Jeez! That's a hell of a fookin divot!

You need to use a shallower swing.

 

[teaboyjim]

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[Ian H]

I got that free with a £100 fine