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jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Still in Swindon
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 Posted: Mon Feb 06, 12 7:45 pm Post subject: And you need a qualified electrician because... |
 
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They won't cut through your radiator pipes 
Oh dear he just did, no wall sensor, no ability to feel the heat of the pipes through the wall, or realise that radiators really don't work magically and there has to be pipe somewhere pretty close..... |
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Jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon
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Oooops! Much damage done? |
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Rusticwood
Joined: 01 Dec 2009
Posts: 1892
Location: All over the South West
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I hope you had some joints and pipe in the " might come in handy " box
Hope you managed to stop the flow quickly |
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Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
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Location: Patchshire
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 12 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Professionals 
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 33055
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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| Barefoot Andrew wrote: |
Professionals
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Oi! Son! You're nicked!
ETA: Actually, that was The Sweeny, wasn't it?  |
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Barefoot Andrew
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Maybe Lewis Collins had that wild 80s hair because he was carp electrician.
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jema
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Location: Still in Swindon
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well its just as well it was downstairs in a room where we are replacing the carpet.
he did at least yell quickly to a plumber he knew. the plumber turned out to be an alchemist as he was able to turn the undetectable plastic pipes back into sheathed copper to fix things. |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 33055
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Crikey. Why's he still a plumber and not living it up in the Maldives? |
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Mary-Jane
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18147
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
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| Barefoot Andrew wrote: |
Maybe Lewis Collins had that wild 80s hair because he was carp electrician.
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No, Lewis Collins had the close crop - it was Martin Shaw who had the wild hair.
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alice
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Posts: 2773
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Lawks! I used to worship the ground Lewis Collins walked on, I wonder what he's doing now. |
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boisdevie1
Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3363
Location: Northern France
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 12 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| alice wrote: |
| I wonder what he's doing now. |
He's looking an awful lot older. How the years flash by........mutters to himself and goes to look for slippers............ |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 33055
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Mary-Jane
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18147
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 12 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Chez wrote: |
| I wonder what his plumbing's like? |
In what sense? |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 33055
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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In what sense would you like me to mean it? |
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alice
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Posts: 2773
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Back in the day, I always imagined it would be magnificent!!!
Of course, I'm older and wiser now...... |
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