Fekins saftey tip of the day... watch what your doing with a Stanley knife :)

[Fekin]

Went to finish off a garage floor that I laid yesterday, just had a little grouting to do and now had a piece of trim to lay to finish off the tiles where the garage door met the floor.
Odd customer, didn't want any trim when quoting him, just finish off with grout, nearly finished job and he then wanted a trim along the tile the full width of the floor.
Couldn't use tile to floor strips as that would have pretruded under the garage door and be visible on the drive which he didn't want, so he decided on standard tile trim, but these couldn't be fitter propperly becuase the tiles had been down overnight and we're soild, so trim couldn't be slid under the tile, so I had to cut off the flat section of trim all the way along and just use the rounded side.

Out with the Stanley, brand new blade, and like a twonk I was stood there just holding the tile trim in the left hand, stanley in the right just about to score down the length of trim to cut off the flat strip, thinking this was probably a bad idea, but still went ahead anyway.

Well, first cut the blade slipped and came down in a sharp chopping motion onto my thumb, caught just where the thumb joins the hand, through the skin, through the layer of fat, through some grisely bits and I think the bone stopped it

Cut was only an inch wide, but as deep as it gets, so after a an hour in A&E was back, cut my trim propperly this time, stuck it down and left.

So that's my tip of the day, if you think what your doing is a bad idea... it most probably is

[Dave]

You plonker rodney... ........

If i have a trim to cut the back off then i run it through the electric cutter....quick and safe...........

[Fekin]

Yeah, I ain't got one, just the wetcutter.

[Dave]

Yeah, I ain't got one, just the wetcutter.

Is a wet cutter not an electric one then....?..

[CTD Marie]

One word OOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHH

[Sir Ramic]

So whats holding the trim in place ??
Oh and Ouch

[Turkish]

One word OOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHH

I agree!!!!

Turkish

[Fekin]

Is a wet cutter not an electric one then....?..

Didn't think a wetcutter would do thin plastic trims.

So whats holding the trim in place ??
Oh and Ouch

Silicone.

[Sir Ramic]

I doubt that will last long.

[Fekin]

Well, silicone was going to be my idea originally, the tile shop "not a teenager in B&Q either" suggested to silicone it, and I have full coverage of silicone on the concrete which was scrubbed clean and tile edge.

Any reasons why you don't think this will last long ?, and what would you have used in it's place Ramic ?

[Sir Ramic]

I dont feel it will be strong enough myself but time will tell. I would have lifted the tiles and charged the client for that.

[Fekin]

I dont feel it will be strong enough myself but time will tell. I would have lifted the tiles and charged the client for that.

That's exactly what I planned to do, but the customer wasn't having it, and I wasn't going to lift a full row, clean up the groutlines, relay and regrout for nothing.

I told him it wasn't the best idea but he's happy, Im happy "other than disecting my thumb" so as you say, time will tell.

[Grace'sDad]

Post a picture!!! Sounds lurvely!

I have sympathy though - I once picked my stanley knife off the floor whilst talking to someone and not looking - picked up by the blade. Funny thing was it only hurt once I looked at it, held upside down by the blade, with the blade clean into my thumb, resting on the bone. It took a staple and a couple of months to heal.

[wetdec]

Gripfil Fekin if the damp gets under the silicone it might pull away


tiler

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[Sir Ramic]

No problem then, strange he didnt want it done properly though if it wasnt going to cost him ?

[CJ]

Ouch

Thats a job for the fein me thinks.........cut a narrow channel under edge of tile...........whack a bit of no nails type stuff and bang it in

[Fekin]

No problem then, strange he didnt want it done properly though if it wasnt going to cost him ?

Yeah, it would have been fitted at the time the last row of time was laid, but he said from the start to just finish he didn't want\need anything as the tiles came flush to the garage door rubber seal, then changed his mind after the tiling was done.

[Dave]

wetcutters fly through tile trims ( plastic )...

[dptiling]

just put a new blade in stanley this morning and sliced me finger.
may be theres something in the air...

[Fekin]

I'll keep that in mind after today Dave

[CLAYS TILES]

poor old fekin!
i've done the same myself b4 now,actually about 3 times

[sWe]

Ouch! I hate it when such things happen.

Some time ago, I was removing an old, ugly splashback with a hammer and a tile bolster. One of the tiles cracked, in a bad way, and sent splinters flying through the room. One of them hit my arm. It wasn't a big piece, and the cut wasn't particularly wide or anything, but it was deep. I bled like a ****ing pig; blood literally poured down my arm. I couldn't find my first aid kit, and it wouldn't stop bleeding, so I borrowed some super-glue from the customer and glued it shut

That stuff was originally used to stop bleeding, so I mean, why the hell not?

And oh, I ruined a carpet while at it

[hillhead]

very sore indeed,
about 2 months ago i had a full house to start,had only 6 days to finish it
.I got in another tiler and my usual helper,anyway first morning the tiles arrived and i thought we better all help unload the trailer !!!!! i jumped up in,armed with my lovely snappable blade stanley knife to cut straps holding boxes of tiles together,i cut away and handed the boxes down,near finished when i slipped the blade into my thumb !!! ouch !! throught the top and down 1/4 of my nail or more !!
damn sore.I'v had a few slips with them lately,have to be more careful.

[alastair68]

does fresh blood not have any adhesive properties!!!

[frogeye]

Stanley Knives ! - ahh memories....my best one...

when I was a lad I was helping to rewire a house - having marked out the conduit runs on the walls I had to score the plaster and paper with a Stanley prior to chopping out with a bolster - it did give a neater finish.

I remember steadying myself, one hand on the wall, fingers splayed, pulled the Stanley up through the line and sliced the end of my finger off, blood everywhere.

I had seen a programme earlier about some chap chopping his arm off in an accident and taking it to the accy hospital in a bag of ice where it was successfully re-attached.

So I put my finger tip in a bag with ice and arrived at the hospital. I showed them the finger and the bag and watched several nurses stifle laughs as they pulled out my finger tip about the size of a pitza from the bag.

Rule one - pack limb etc in a bag and then in the ice - mine had absorbed the ice cubes.

Finger healed up - just a bit flat at the top now

happy care free, risk assessment free days

frogeye

[IvegotsTILE]

wetcutters fly through tile trims ( plastic )...

I couldn't imagine using a stanely to cut the backs off,like Dave says a wet(electric )cutter cuts through them like a knife through butter.

[Fekin]

I couldn't imagine using a stanely to cut the backs off,like Dave says a wet(electric )cutter cuts through them like a knife through butter.

I like to use my imagination no matter what the end results may be

[whitebeam]

It should be who hasn't cut their self with a stanley blade

[faithhealer]

When I sliced myself up, my customer was so sympathetic she wrapped my hand up in cling film so I could finish her tiling without getting blood every where!

[whitebeam]

Their all heart