Roof Trashed from the birds!

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 ready, and we waited until Ho’a Solar did their work on the inverters and possibly give us an estimate if they did it.…

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Painting and other “inspection” (Gutters)

Today was home fixer upper day. Lou has been wanting to paint the garage doors. I’ve been wanting to clear out the roof gutters where plants have sprouted because of the pigeons roosting on the gutters and dirt/crap settling. I pulled out the 22′ roof ladder to see if it will reach, and it does. So I started to climb up to see what I can clean out.…

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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 hard to close the gates without either lifting the gate up a bit or just slamming them shut.…

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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 wire in the rubber to maintain the tension of the band or else the rubber alone may flex as it gets older?…

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