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One of my surveyors has just told me a tale of an eastern European builder working for an Asiatic customer. When challenged by my surveyor that they did not have any cavities in the walls the builder asked if he could go and buy them from B &Q…..:confused:
I think enforcement looms!!!! :smt100
Well Oiled
23-05-07, 11:55 AM
Not an urban legend of course, nooooo way !
MiniMatt
23-05-07, 12:23 PM
Ouch, you'd think by now that all builders would know the cheapest place to get cavities is in a sweet shop? I'm sure you can get second hand cavities from any dental surgery too?
sky hooks, tartan paint, long weigh all spring to mind!
rictus01
23-05-07, 12:28 PM
Oh I could do with some of those, house built 1900, how much are they and what size :D
MiniMatt
23-05-07, 12:31 PM
Oh I could do with some of those, house built 1900, how much are they and what size :D
Oooh, 1900 house, those'll be imperial cavities - it's all metric now :( Might need to import them :(
EDIT: Good news is, they don't weigh much so shipping should be cheap :)
tinpants
23-05-07, 01:08 PM
Oh come ON!!!! Everyone knows you can't buy cavities. At least not from B&Q anyway.
I've always found that the best place to get them from is Travis Perkins. Jewsons are waaay too expensive! A reclamation yard is a good bet too. :D
sky hooks, tartan paint, long weigh all spring to mind!
Skirting board ladders is a fav of mine. Actually got a girl that was working for me to call B&Q to see if they had any!! They said they didnt have any in stock. To this day, she still thinks that exist, and good show to B&Q Charlton.
No-one's mentionned a glass hammer yet.
Got a few of the new starters over the years at my uncles old double glazing firm when I was kicking around helping out (read: hindering).
Luckypants
23-05-07, 02:43 PM
A bucket of steam was always my favourite.
Yup heard all the old ones and even pondered a few minutes myself when as a trainee someone suggested using sky hooks and I was just about to say "who makes them...?" before the penny dropped. - bloody funny as an initiation joke but this case is for real!
Alpinestarhero
23-05-07, 03:50 PM
I'll give ya cavities. With some TNT :cool:
As for these sorts of things, my dad often sends new aprentice boys over the road to the hardware shop to ask for a left-handed screw driver......
Matt
MiniMatt
23-05-07, 04:14 PM
My very first computer job required me to travel the length and breadth of the country to audit all of Railtrack's computers. Now, I took this job as a means to get out of driving fork lift trucks loading the british gypsum wagons (winter was approaching, and being one of these "namby pamby fair weather fork lift drivers"), and as such knew nothing.
I asked my boss how to get the capacity of the hard drive installed in these computers. He produced a 12" ruler, and proceeded to explain a complicated algebraic equation to discover the capacity based upon a hard drive's physical dimensions. I'd audited most of the east midlands before I figured out I'd been had :)
Bluepete
23-05-07, 04:19 PM
We used to tell the new recruits to phone special branch at the airport and ask to speak to Detective Constable Tenn.
Can't do it now, apparently it's "bullying" aww, poor wee things!:smt013
FFS.
Amanda M
24-05-07, 07:23 AM
I managed to get an undergrad project student to go and dilute some water once. Bless. :geek:
gettin2dizzy
24-05-07, 07:51 AM
When working in a restaurant we had a propane blow torch for melting sugar on puddings. I told a girl she needed to warm the metal canister up in the microwave first........ I'm so glad I was there when she was about to try it!
Filipe M.
24-05-07, 08:48 AM
I managed to get an undergrad project student to go and dilute some water once. Bless. :geek:
What did he dilute it with? :lol:
SoulKiss
24-05-07, 08:58 AM
No-one's mentionned a glass hammer yet.
Got a few of the new starters over the years at my uncles old double glazing firm when I was kicking around helping out (read: hindering).
Glass hammers are no longer valid.
A number of years ago, Pilkington came up with a formula for REALLY tough glass. To prove how tough it was, the cast some into a hammer shape and proceeded to drive nails with them.
Glass hammers are no longer valid.
A number of years ago, Pilkington came up with a formula for REALLY tough glass. To prove how tough it was, the cast some into a hammer shape and proceeded to drive nails with them.
There's also small hammers used to tap stainless window borders on properly (which we used to do at my uncles place). The common name for them was "glass hammer."
That was a laugh though, mainly because you could wind them up about a hammer made out of glass, but then ask for a glass hammer again. They'd always say something like "Aye, you've tried that one already!"
No, really, pass us that glass hammer, it's right next to you!!
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