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Welcome to anyone that has been reading the blog I started on Myspace . I really want to keep up with this and post at least every few days. A post everyday would be better, but I am only so creative. It has finally cooled down here. It was 54 this morning and windy. I even had to wear a jacket earlier. I'm glad though, high humidity and the low 90's were getting old.
Since it is getting cooler I've had more motivation to do some house projects outside. I've been scraping caulk from around the windows and replacing it. I know, I know you can't stand the excitement. It really did need to be done though. Anyway, as is my usual luck, when I'm fixing one thing I tend to screw up something else and give myself another project.
This past Sunday I was working on the upstairs windows. I can't do these during the week because my wife (Jen) says she has to be home when I do things up in the air just in case someone needs to call 911. I guess it is a good policy. Back to the story. Since I had the ladder out I figured that I would clean off the gable vent on the other side of the house. When I got up there I found that the cover was in much worse shape than I had thought.
It was severely dry rotted. Thinking that I might be able do something with it on the ground I pulled the cover off. And of course I broke the part that holds it on. So now I have a 12 inch hole in the side of the house. Oh bother. It is an octagonal cover with a square mount. The only way to fix it was to go buy another vent. Of course I figure that I can just go buy a new one and snap it on the old mounting piece. Nope, they've changed. Now the mounting piece is octagonal. More work. Luckily it was not going to rain, so I put it off until this morning since it was going to be cooler. It didn't take as long as I thought and it looks really good now that it is done. Compared to during when there was insulation blowing all over the yard and siding falling off and flapping in the breeze.
Welcome to anyone that has been reading the blog I started on Myspace . I really want to keep up with this and post at least every few days. A post everyday would be better, but I am only so creative. It has finally cooled down here. It was 54 this morning and windy. I even had to wear a jacket earlier. I'm glad though, high humidity and the low 90's were getting old.
Since it is getting cooler I've had more motivation to do some house projects outside. I've been scraping caulk from around the windows and replacing it. I know, I know you can't stand the excitement. It really did need to be done though. Anyway, as is my usual luck, when I'm fixing one thing I tend to screw up something else and give myself another project.
This past Sunday I was working on the upstairs windows. I can't do these during the week because my wife (Jen) says she has to be home when I do things up in the air just in case someone needs to call 911. I guess it is a good policy. Back to the story. Since I had the ladder out I figured that I would clean off the gable vent on the other side of the house. When I got up there I found that the cover was in much worse shape than I had thought.
It was severely dry rotted. Thinking that I might be able do something with it on the ground I pulled the cover off. And of course I broke the part that holds it on. So now I have a 12 inch hole in the side of the house. Oh bother. It is an octagonal cover with a square mount. The only way to fix it was to go buy another vent. Of course I figure that I can just go buy a new one and snap it on the old mounting piece. Nope, they've changed. Now the mounting piece is octagonal. More work. Luckily it was not going to rain, so I put it off until this morning since it was going to be cooler. It didn't take as long as I thought and it looks really good now that it is done. Compared to during when there was insulation blowing all over the yard and siding falling off and flapping in the breeze.
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