DIY Plumbing = Leaks

Fitted a new bathroom wash basin last year, lovely job. Leaking like a twat yesterday! Fixed it, shower cubicle started leaking... What is it about water leaks! If it's not crappy plastic plumbing fittings (they never quite fit together correctly, requiring about a gallon of additional silicon sealant) it water pipes or roofs leaking. Bloody stuff!

Clumsy strikes again :O(

Well it's that limbo time between Christmas and New Year. That time when you're not quite bored enough to actually get back to work but when you're too bored to contemplate another lazy day with a film or two, a box of chocolates and a few beers...

What to do?

I decided to do something productive (albeit it a quick and easy job - ha!) and finally move the light fitting in our kitchen. It's just three spotlights fixed to a rotating arm thing that is mounted over our worktop, nothing major.

2 screws to hold the light fitting to the mounting plate and 2 screws holding the mounting plate to a wooden ceiling beam.

The wiring is just a cable pinned along the beam and the only technical bit of the whole job was to cut the cable back and re-terminate the fitting - live, neutral and earth into a nice chunky connector! Piece of piss! 10 minute job! HA! Off went the mains and...

• Remove light fitting: 1 minute.
• Disconnect wiring: 1 minute.
• Shorten cable and re-terminate light fitting: 3 minutes.
• Re-fit mounting bracket 12" further forward: 1 minute.
• Re-fit light fitting to mounting bracket and drop the fu**ing retaining screws: 30 seconds.
• Search for the fu**ing retaining screws: 45 minutes...

Found one of the damn screws, no idea where the hell the other one went.

10 minute job, almost an hour and ended with a wonky light fitting...

ALYNM