I had a guy who posted on the NextDoor app about being able to install wire mesh around roof solar panels come over to look at our roof and panels about a month ago. John Myers does these install jobs on the side, not a business. He’s an Army AD Captain, Aviator. He had agreed to do our panels when we’re… Continue Reading
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Pigeons destroying the roof
Lou scheduled the solar company (Ho’a Solar Inc.) for today to replace some bad inverters, and also inspect and give an estimate to clean out underneath the panels and put netting up to keep the pigeons out. We’ll see what that will cost. Damned pigeons!!!
Fixing the inside garage door
Lou’s gotten into wood filling to fix the house doorways of shipped wood edges. So she took on trying to refinish the door to the garage, a typical exterior wooden door, that over the years started peeling off/shredding at the bottom from weather exposure. She scraped off the shredding door layer, filled… Continue Reading
Fixed Those Sagging Vinyl Gates
Both the front and back fence gates have gradually started sagging over the years, something expected with vinyl gates… all gates really. I’ve had to reposition the latch bars to get them to catch properly but as the gates keep sagging more and more the latch keeps slowly misaligning and getting… Continue Reading
More Garage Door issues
was opening the small garage door this morning, and some wire snapped. Here we go again with the goddamned garage doors! It looks like a thin wire embedded in the rubber ‘chain’ band that retracts and extends the door between the door itself and the motor’s gear. I assume it’s an embedded… Continue Reading
Rat damage fix!
The garage door for the small garage has been malfunctioning for almost a month now since rats chewed thru some wires, and the door won’t remotely close. I ordered splice/crimp connectors and 22 gauge wire from Amazon, determined to fix this problem… caling Raynor will cost, mostly expensive… Continue Reading
Rats!
No, not rats as in darn it. But… rats! Rats in the garage crawlspace. Two weeks or so ago, the big garage door started malfunctioning. It would open via the remote, but would not close at all. We called the Raynor repair guy and found that a rat had chewed thru the wire that goes from the overhead door motor … Continue Reading