Daft accidents in the home

ethan said:
Five weeks ago I set about drilling a few holes in the wall to put one of the Mrs' approved pictures up not realising some of the tools were not up to the task. Unknown to me the drill bit of choice was dodgy and dislodged partly whilst Drilling (sending me cascading down the wall a number of times). The wall looked like it had been shot at by the time I'd finished.
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A sharp drill bit and use of masking tape to stop the bit skidding are vital. Start drilling at very low speed to get the hole started safely.

Use a pipe/wire/joist finder to check you’re not going to drill into something you don’t want drilled.
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
Angled my ladder too much and it slipped out from below me when I went in the loft. Luckily managed to grab the loft hatch and hold myself up and then drop down.
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Using ladders just means you fall further and land harder. I‘m fortunate enough to have some decent ones, have been taught to use them properly and don’t go up one without someone holding it (until it get it lashed in place using trailer straps).
 
I got my dinner out of the oven which was on a baking tray, and put it on the hob above. I then knocked said baking tray off the top of the hob, and just reacted to catch it. Unfortunately, i had already taken the oven gloves off....

That was one of the most painful injuries i've had, and having very burnt hands in excruciating pain makes it very hard to do anything.

Still, saved the floor and my dinner though right? :(
 
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bainbridge said:
The other day in between Christmas and New year I was due to work that day and, in my wisdom, decided to get dressed in the dark to avoid bright light. I tripped when putting on some pants and went flying but luckily landed on the bed.
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This is why I have 2 LED strips under the bed, one each side, both independantly switched. If either my wife or I need to get up and not disturb the other we use the underbed strip on our respective side. Works a treat.
 
I'm not particularly accident prone, but I stubbed my toe really badly the other night. Woke up and opened a window, and on the way back into bed smashed my toe on the very sharp corner of the bedframe. I obviously cried inside and touched my toe to see if it was alright. In the dark, I could vaguely see that there was blood on my finger so I grabbed some tissue, wrapped it around my toe, and went back to sleep. It was soaked with blood in the morning. Still not really sure what I've done to it, but my toe is still a bit swollen.

I have that issue with using the wrong tool quite often unfortunately. Years ago, a couple of my friend and I went clay pigeon shooting. One friend's car was playing up (mine had already done so, which was fun) and he wanted to reset the ECU, so we decided to disconnect the battery. The clamp thin was really stuck on the terminal so I tried to use the chisel tip on my Leatherman to release it. It slipped and went straight into my hand between my thumb and forefinger. That bled a lot, though I don't think it really hurt.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
A sharp drill bit and use of masking tape to stop the bit skidding are vital. Start drilling at very low speed to get the hole started safely.

Use a pipe/wire/joist finder to check you’re not going to drill into something you don’t want drilled.
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Yeah. It turned out the drill bit I was given was a cheap import from China. I went out and purchased some that were decent and completed the job without incident.
 
I stabbed myself in the leg with a Stanley knife pretty much as hard as a human realistically could. I was trying to cut some really thick rubber gym matting like a noob. I drove myself to an NHS walk in centre and a nurse glued the wound shut.
 
Around 1980 in my first house I was cutting wood with a Stanley Knife when my cousin noticed I'd cut the top of my hand.
The blood was spurting out and he shouted out to my wife "I've got to rush Dave up to A&E".
When I got back my wife was panicking because of the streaks of blood all up the wall and on the ceiling :)

Since then there's been a few including yesterday when I missed the bottom two steps, ended up crashing into some drawers and flat on my back.
I had a full knee replacement last year and thought it had all come loose.
It took me ages to get up but I was OK.
 
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About twenty years ago I was helping my mate Adam fix a DIY cockup, he'd fitted laminate flooring in his living room but had fitted it to butt up to the skirting to look nice, of course, as the boards expanded with moisture and heat they bowed up and he realised he needed to leave a gap around the edge and cover it with scotia. Now, he didn't want to take the whole floor up again so his solution was to fit a small circular saw blade to his angle grinder and cut 1cm off around the edge (this is before the days of multitools !). It actually started out working surprisingly well, so whilst he was working I went off to make us a cuppa. Whilst the kettle was boiling I heard a scream and loads of banging and crashing followed by the most terriffying screams and pleading me for help. I ran back to the living room and opened the door to find the angle grinder literally flying around the room tearing holes up the walls, the sofa the floor, the TV unit and Adam cowering behind the sofa. Eventually it cut its own cord and fell to the floor. Adam explained the blade had snagged and ripped the angle grinder out his hand, angle grinders have lock on switches so once he had let go, it just went off on a mental journey of destruction bouncing around his living room, the damage was insane, gauges out the walls 5ft up, sofa torn to shreads in places, the floor was totally F'ed, luckily he didn't have a scratch, could have been much worse !
 
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thebandit said:
About twenty years ago I was helping my mate Adam fix a DIY cockup, he'd fitted laminate flooring in his living room but had fitted it to butt up to the skirting to look nice, of course, as the boards expanded with moisture and heat they bowed up and he realised he needed to leave a gap around the edge and cover it with scotia. Now, he didn't want to take the whole floor up again so his solution was to fit a small circular saw blade to his angle grinder and cut 1cm off around the edge (this is before the days of multitools !). It actually started out working surprisingly well, so whilst he was working I went off to make us a cuppa. Whilst the kettle was boiling I heard a scream and loads of banging and crashing followed by the most terriffying screams and pleading me for help. I ran back to the living room and opened the door to find the angle grinder literally flying around the room tearing holes up the walls, the sofa the floor, the TV unit and Adam cowering behind the sofa. Eventually it cut its own cord and fell to the floor. Adam explained the blade had snagged and ripped the angle grinder out his hand, angle grinders have lock on switches so once he had let go, it just went off on a mental journey of destruction bouncing around his living room, the damage was insane, gauges out the walls 5ft up, sofa torn to shreads in places, the floor was totally F'ed, luckily he didn't have a scratch, could have been much worse !
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I'm picturing a scene from Mr Bean here....lol.
 
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