I decided that since they weren't paying any rent, they needed to go. I struggled for a way to get up to this vent, which was approximately 24 feet off of the ground (which was at a ~7% grade sloping towards the backyard). Not exactly a fun (or very safe) endeavor to try... After making it up about 5 feet on the ladder, Gina advised me that "I needed to get down immediately and stop fooling around"... I guess safety patrol runs in her side of the family :)
Not being able to just climb up a ladder, I was hard pressed for ideas on how to remedy the problem. One approach was to rent a bucket lifter - which would likely get me 24 feet in the air, but at quite a large cost. However, I ended up buying the required part from Lowes, climbing up in the attic, attaching the interior portion of the new vent cover from inside the attic w/ adhesive and screws (and getting to use my new recip saw!). I then tied the exterior piece of the cover to a string in the yard and pulled it up from the attic. With a little adjustment here and there, it finally snapped into place and is all set. I still need to get some new tubing (the birds did a number on the original one), but its almost done.
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5 comments:
Woo!
I'm so glad you listen to your wife when she tells you to get off the ladder. I'm pretty sure that would just fuel my McHusband to climb higher.
Sounds like this repair required some out-of-the-box thinking - good job!
Birds! EEEK!
Why didn't you repel from the roof? You could have swung the rope over the chimney, tied it to the Ranger and had Gina back it up to lower you in to place!
I don't understand all the logistics of the repair, but it sounds pretty impressive anyway.
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