Shocking!

Arse cakes! Giant bloody arse cakes! Last night me and Mrs MaFt decided to put up the curtain tie-backs we've had for about 3 years. All nice and simple:

1. remove the old ones
2. drill a couple of holes
3. insert rawlplugs
4. screw
5. tie curtains back

However, at point 2 things went wrong. There's was a loud, crackly bang and a rather bright flash and the burglar alarm went off. Seems that I had gone straight through a mains cable... Shit... Well, at least we still had lights; and the fuse box worked...

Emergency call to big bruvva Tim and after he'd had his soup he called round. He spent about an hour and a bit patching it up so we could get some power back on. On closer inspection we saw that I had gone straight through the very middle of the cable - literally dead-center! I have a couple of photo's that I'll upload over the weekend.

Later we're going to make it into a socket so we only need to replace about 3 feet of cable / wall rather than about 30! At least we'll be able to have a lamp on the window-sill without the cable hanging down for baby MaFt to pull at. You see, something good usually comes out of my cock-ups!

Who'd have thought that there would be 4 mains cables going up next to the window?! Next time I'll use one of those 'hidden wire and pipe' detectors.


Coulda done with one of these...

MaFt