Ask anyone who knows me, and they will confirm that I am "Mister Safety". Goggles, NOISH filter mask, earmuff-type hearing protection...
But for some weird reason, today I was wearing my mask, and my hearing protection while I was doing some soldering, but I neglected to put on my safety goggles. Big mistake...
I was soldering the pipes for the shower controller together, torch in the left hand, solder in the right with maybe 12 inches sticking out off the reel, and I was kneeling in front of the wall and looking slightly up. I finished soldering the joint, lowered the torch,...
So at this stage of my renovation, I am floating on air... well, suspended on a couple of 40 year old pieces of lumber. It wouldn't have been so bad had it not been for the fact that it was 3/8" plywood, partially rotted through, on 24" joists! The 2x4s you see on the left are for cutting up for some additional horizontal supports between the floor joists, to further reduce the bending of the plywood as we step on it. Any bowing of the flooring will result in cracked tiling, so I want to reduce it as much...