Don’t do it yourself! Moment DIY dunce creates an unwanted water feature after drilling through pipe
- A DIY novice was treating woodworm in the floorboards at his Norfolk home
- The man was using a power tool to screw the floorboards onto the wooden joists
- He forgot that the central heating pipes were running through the joists
This is the moment a homeowner’s spot of DIY went horribly wrong when he accidentally drilled into a water pipe.
The man, who has not been identified, had lifted the floorboards to spray them with a woodworm treatment before screwing them back down to the joist.
However, as he screwed the floorboards down with an impact driver he drilled the screw into the copper pipe which immediately sprang a leak.
The man’s DIY fix caused more problems at his home in Norfolk after he drilled through a central heating pipe
The pipe was installed between wooden joist and the floor boards meaning they were at risk of being punctured by wood screws
The DIY error was not entirely his fault as whoever had installed the central heating had run the pipes through the wooden joists instead of in the cavity below.
He also gained another DIY skill when successfully repaired the leak with his first attempt at soldering a pipe.
The Norfolk man posted his dramatic error online where he admitted his mistake.
He said: ‘I was treating the floorboards and joists with woodworm treatment spray.
‘On putting the floorboards back down I completely forgot where the pipes were and that they had been put in so close by a previous tradesman.
‘This is my own home, and this was a spot of DIY gone horribly wrong.
‘Then I repaired the pipe myself too, and I have never soldered a pipe in my life.’
The man was forced to solder the pipe to fix the leak before re installing his floor board