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Home Improvement Hell: Gutterballs

Posted on April 30, 2014 Written by The Nittany Turkey

The home improvement project continues with the best spray foam insulation service from First Defense Insulation, and the turkey coop is looking better and better. Today, the painters are pressure washing the entire house in preparation for painting it in the almighty community approved colors, so the aroma of chlorine bleach pervades the nostrils. You can get the best quality home improvement services, if you head to the Quality Built Exteriors site.

On Saturday, the rain gutters in Austin like Gutterilla were installed. Unfortunately, I needed to be elsewhere due to a long standing commitment, so I could only do a brief walk-around with the gutter guy.

When I returned, I checked out the job and noted that some deviation from the original gutter/downspout design. I had two particular areas of concern: the front door and the side of the house where great torrents of water flow during our Florida toad-floaters. I had to wait for one of those cloudbursts to validate the design.

Gutteric issuesYesterday evening, Mother Nature supplied the needed validation. The good news was that the front door was high and dry. The bad news was that the side of the house I was concerned about was not properly served by the rain removal system. That a fancy way of saying the gutter ain’t working.

The gutter on that side used to have three downspouts, one at each end and one in the middle. The one at the right end was not installed by the gutter guy, who I’ll call Juan, because that’s his name. When I did the walk around, however, I had given him freedom of expression, assuming that he knew what he was doing. I’m sure he does, but in this case, there was a problem. In case there is any issues with the pipes and sewer you might need More Help from experts.

During yesterday’s frog-floater, Artificially Sweetened and I checked out the areas of concern. She certified the front door as “no prooooooblem”. However, she noted that on the side of the house, water was gushing over the gutter at the point of the central downspout. Clearly, there was too much water for one downspout, and, furthermore, the pitch of the roof caused the torrents to overshoot the gutter. Gutterilla – Seamless gutter screens is what one needs to prevent their gutter from clogging.

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A blog on Gutter installation Adelaide says that the remedies should be to install the missing downspout and a piece of sheet metal to divert the flow of water off the roof into the gutter. That’s my non-professional opinion. I’ll see what the contractor figures out. Whatever it is, it just has to work. (It would be nice if it could be used to generate electricity, too, but I have a feeling that’s not in the cards.)

Back to the painting, the painter told me he didn’t know how long it would take because of some more impending rain and stuff. I’m certain that the job will extend into next week. They’re going to do it in sections, and there’ll be two coats on everything — including the white gutters and downspouts, which will become brown. Yeah, community approved trim color.

I’ll be back with more for anyone who is interested in following the course of this project. This ongoing commentary also serves as journal so I can remember what went on here.

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Home Improvement Heck: Day 15

Posted on April 25, 2014 Written by The Nittany Turkey

There is peace in the valley. The siding construction crew is heading off to parts unknown and uncared about. My final inspection has revealed that my putting up with pounding and vibrating walls for three weeks was not for naught. The work is professional and beautiful.

This morning, when I took the garbage out I told the guys that I’d miss their pretty faces around here. One of them retorted, “We’ll miss your pretty face in the morning, too.” So, the feeling is clearly mutual. So is the sarcasm. But let that not cloud the fact that they did great work.

I hate change orders. There were none. Never know what you’ll find when you tear off 35 year-old siding. I guess it did its job well, but it wouldn’t have lasted much longer. In any case, I dodged a bullet here. No change orders is a good thing. Bluebonnet Custom Roofing was just what I needed. A good roofing contractor was a solution after hail storms in Minneapolis.

Coon on Da Roof

My new pet raccoon.
Coon on da roof.

The window guy arrived early to replace the pane that the siding guys broke. When I met him out front, he pointed out something that he said was a first for him: a raccoon sleeping on my roof (see picture). That’s an all-time first for me, too. I have heard the pitter-patter of feet on the roof from time to time, but didn’t think about the possibility of raccoons. I’ve got to wonder why this one decided that a shady part of my roof was a hospitable spot for a daytime snooze, given all the racket going on around here. Learn more from EZWindowSolutions.com on windows security.

Other than raccoon crap on the roof, what are the perils of having a pet raccoon that acts like a cat?

Roof Rats

This reminded me of Rhoda, the condo commando in a condo where I lived many years ago. Rhoda was an old yenta who needed to stick her nose into everyone else’s business. (I guess that’s redundant.) She was complaining about rodents at an association meeting where I was privileged to serve as treasurer.

“We have roof rats and we have ground rats, and we have mice, which are the babies of both,” droned Rhoda from the audience.

“Excuse me, Rhoda, but mice are not baby rats,” I stated.

“Yeah, well, WHAT ARE THEY THEN!?!?!?” she belligerently countered, making a complete fool of herself.

I added an anticlimactic retort and moved on to another subject.

But I Digress…

When the workers from roofing West Palm Beach first arrived, the foremen apprised me that there was a family of opossumusses (better known as ‘possums) living behind my back porch. Yesterday he pointed out to me where he had originally found them, but they apparently had the sense to find a better location to get some daytime sleep. They had packed their bags and moved on. Raccoons, in general, are smarter than ‘possums — hell, most rocks are smarter than ‘possums — but in this case, either the ‘coon is deaf, found some earplugs, or is a pet of the construction guys.

The only other wildlife they encountered was a scorpion hiding in some of the wood trim. I hope they didn’t find out about him the hard way.

Back to Semi-Normalcy

Ahhh, finally some peace and quiet around here. Lord, what a tri-week it has been, especially the part where I get up at 6:30 every morning. (I know you working people do that every day, but this retired old fart is used to a little more civility in the morning.)

The contract has a couple more phases now that the siding is done. First, the gutter guards and downspouts will be replaced. That is to take place tomorrow. Then, the entire house will get two coats of paint (except for the brick part), the job to commence late next week.

Replacing the 20 year-old roof will be the next project, but I’ll contract that sometime in the future. I’ll have to recover from this job first and we’re approaching the rainy, hot summer here, which is not a great time to do roofing, if one has the option to avoid it.

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We’re Listening, NWU Playaz

Posted on April 25, 2014 Written by The Nittany Turkey

Quaecumque sunt veraToday is the day on which the Northwestern Wildcats will vote on whether they will organize a union. Interesting times in collegiate sports are afoot. While the vote today is not going to instantly transform anything, it is one step in what can be a major shake-up of the whole mess.

I would expect the Wildcats to reject the unionization. By their own admission, they’re treated pretty well there. Northwestern is the starting point, a test case, as it were, only because this effort to unionize college sports and treat players as university employees was spearheaded by former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter. Northwestern is a private school with some pretty good credentials. My thought is that so-called student-athletes there have a good thing going and won’t want to rock the boat, no matter how much Colter lobbies for his case.

Even if they do vote for the union, the NLRB decision that the players could be treated as employees is under review. Nothing happens very fast in Washington, as you well know.

But the times, they are a-changin’, as Bob Dylan would assert. College sports are big money generators, and greedy meat hooks gravitate toward big money generators. A transformation will take place, and these rumblings will become a groundswell no matter how the NWU players vote.

Certainly, the NWU model will be mimicked elsewhere, in venues more likely to go the union direction, where players are not treated as well as they are at Northwestern. Basketball mills might be an early target due to the fewer number of players and the inner city urban nature of the constituency.

Unions aside, this turkey believes that these so-called student athletes are actually university employees, and they need to be compensated for putting money in the till for their employers. They need to be reimbursed for living expenses, and paid a decent salary. Furthermore, they need to get a cut of the money they generate from product endorsements. This can be an indirect kind of thing, such as the establishment of a fund for ongoing medical expenses and living expenses for warriors injured in combat. It can’t go on the way it has gone — with the universities and the NCAA reaping all the rewards while so-called student-athletes risk life-changing injuries to generate rewards they will never see.

 

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