Not my truck, but my house. Little back story. My son broke the tank on one of our toilets earlier in the day. I used my heat gun to heat up the porcelain as I was trying to glue it back together. i forgot to put the heat gun away and left it sitting on the bathroom counter. Fast forward a few hours. Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary, so the wife and I went out tonight for dinner and a movie. Had our normal baby sitter come over to watch the kids. Movie went great. Was going to watch Avatar in Imax, but it was sold out, so ended up watching Old Dogs. FUNNY movie. After movie, went to dinner. About three bites into dinner the baby sitter calls saying the smoke alarms are going off and she smells smoke. We box up our food and high tail it out of the restraunt to make the 20 miles drive home(took 15 minutes with traffic). Didn't hear from sitter the whole way home, everyone we try to call to help us out isn't answering thier phones. Get home, fire department has street blocked off(major road through town). Fire is out by the time we got home. Was contained strictly to the bathroom. Guess one of my kids turned on the heat gun then left it sitting on my running pants that were sitting on the bathroom counter. burnt counter top, melted tiles, scorched cabinets, lots of heat and smoke damage in bathroom. we were planning a remodel soon, but now will have to be sooner. Everyone is safe and shouldn't be too hard to redo the bathroom.
Fire!!!
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That sucks man. good thing you good. my kitchen lite up about 5 yrs ago. i was not as lucky as you tho. i got caught trying to stop mine. face and arms got roasted pretty bad. but after a couple weeks in the hospital in one of those mummy looking thing and about 2 months of a nurse coming by every other day to my house and taking good care in the summer. i am now pretty as i should be
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I liken it to leaving a power tool plugged in......why not just plug in the 'ole skil saw and place that in the playroom...
Will you EVER take responsibility for your own actions? Then you post about them! LOL
What i really want to know is why you didn't FIX the toilet, instead of trying to glue it....Home Depots are everywhere...
PLEASE get smarter, your children are watching.
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If you had just done that in the first place....
Yea, maybe you think he was being irresponsible...but come on man, did he ask for you opinion on that?
He was just stating some bad news...don't ruin a thread.
Again though, glad everyone is okay, that's what matters. hskrRT, not looking forward to hearing the repair costs, huh? Well, like it's something to look forward to.:jester:
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This clown is famous for doing dumb stuff and then stating all kinds of reasons why it's not his fault. Why would he post it, if not for opinions on his story? Are we all so damn PC that we can't handle the good opinions as well as the bad? Some would say, if you can't run with the big dogs, keep your puppy ass on the porch.Yea, maybe you think he was being irresponsible...but come on man, did he ask for you opinion on that?
He was just stating some bad news...don't ruin a thread.
Again though, glad everyone is okay, that's what matters. hskrRT, not looking forward to hearing the repair costs, huh? Well, like it's something to look forward to.:jester:
As far as being irresponsible, what do YOU think? Would you leave a heat gun plugged in around children? Why don't we juts throw some acid, C4, a couple of loaded weapons in there.
Stupid is as Stupid does...
Did you not read my post?:huh: Oh well, I'm not gonna start some big thing on this thread and ruin it...moving on.
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If he posts his personal life on the web, isn't he asking for comment? Does it have to be nice?
That's my point.
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Let's keep this on track in the thread - if you want to talk shit, use Fight Club.
Roger.
Glad it stopped where it did Brian!
We just about lost our brand new house (at the time), after our kitchen went up. Dad was filling up the burner for the fondue pot over the sink with methyl hydrate. It must have still had a flame, or was just hot enough to ignite the jug, and that caused dad to drop it, so burning methyl hydrate went all over. Dad picked up the burning jug and threw it out on the driveway, came back in and put the fire out with a fire extinguisher. Needless to say, we use electric fondue pots now.
If they used a fire extinguisher, and you have central heat/cool, I bet they (insurance, if you use em) will be cleaning your entire house. That stuff gets everywhere.
We just about lost our brand new house (at the time), after our kitchen went up. Dad was filling up the burner for the fondue pot over the sink with methyl hydrate. It must have still had a flame, or was just hot enough to ignite the jug, and that caused dad to drop it, so burning methyl hydrate went all over. Dad picked up the burning jug and threw it out on the driveway, came back in and put the fire out with a fire extinguisher. Needless to say, we use electric fondue pots now.
If they used a fire extinguisher, and you have central heat/cool, I bet they (insurance, if you use em) will be cleaning your entire house. That stuff gets everywhere.
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Damn. Fire is my worst nightmare. I"m glad it wasn't worse and its a good thing the babysitter reacted so quickly.
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home insurance outta pay for the majority of it, actually. So if anything, he should be able to make it even nicer than he originally planned, or just as nice for less out of his own wallet!
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Think of the upside. You can get rid of that flowery shit along the roof!
Sorry this happened to ya.
Sorry this happened to ya.
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