I ran a nail through a pipe today for the first time.Was putting up some base under a furniture like vanity w/ legs.Lesson one that I learned is LOOK FOR STUDS.No criss crossing the nails, even under a vanity.Lesson two is keep the nail in the pipe until the main is turned off and the system is drained.It’ll keep it to a slow trickle. Thank God I know how to sweat pipe and the bosses weren’t there.Went out,smoked a cigarette and life gos on(though I did tell em).
Edited 1/22/2008 10:46 pm ET by IamtheWalrus
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Plumber told me once--
It's best not to nail the wood directly to the pipes....
To be honest it's the only one that really held.Most of the wall was existing drywall over a chimney w/o studs.
Day late and a dollar short....(as me grandpa was famous for saying.)
J. D. ReynoldsHome Improvements
feel good it leaked right then. i did the same thing at the toliet shutoff,didn't know it. took about 2 months for that 16ga nail to rust off.then the fun started. luckily it was a rental of mine so no pizz off customer. larry
if a man speaks in the forest,and there's not a woman to hear him,is he still wrong?
Yeah,I am feeling good about that.A different guy who worked for these guys before my time put a 2 12in. screw through a pipe.Plumbers caught it a few days later while pressure testing for something else.