It has been a summer to remember. Heat and rain and more heat and more rain. Normally we would have heat all summer and then rain as the hurricane season hits the southern Atlantic. This year we have had a lot of rain all summer long - every weekend in fact.
The rain and heat have kept me indoors and the major repair work standing still. The next step to the work is to replace the chimney but in order to do that I have to be able to get up on the roof and as sure footed as I like to believe I am, I am not going up on the roof in the rain. In addition, I expect the chimney will take me at least a day and a half if not two and there hasn't been a weekend without rain this entire summer. (Ok, I take that back, there's been two weekends, but I was out of town on both those weekends. Go figure.)
Even as the summer comes to a close, I am eyeing a time when I can finalize the chimney and get the house finished. I've spent all summer looking for the one part I need to repair this and have finally come to the realization that I will need to get it fabricated.
But where? How?
I've called all the metal fabrication shops in the area and none are open on the weekend. They're happy to see me during the week, but no one is available on the weekend. I guess my next step is to take time off from work just to get this little thing made.
But then the Southerner in me takes over. That "we can find a way" attitude that gets things done by thinking through and doing, not getting someone else to do it. Ok, so what's the answer? Even the lovely Mrs. suggested that there had to be some ready made pipe or piece I could refashion, so I spend a day walking through the big hardware store looking at things that might work and bingo - I find it. A piece of stove pipe with a couple of ready made pieces attached to it that can be cut off and refashioned around my chimney with just a little work.
In less than a day I've done just that. The collars are made and ready for installation along with the chimney itself. Southern Genes? Maybe so, but let's hold off on judgement until I get this project done!
See you next week!
Follow the fabrication completion by clicking here!
But where? How?
I've called all the metal fabrication shops in the area and none are open on the weekend. They're happy to see me during the week, but no one is available on the weekend. I guess my next step is to take time off from work just to get this little thing made.
But then the Southerner in me takes over. That "we can find a way" attitude that gets things done by thinking through and doing, not getting someone else to do it. Ok, so what's the answer? Even the lovely Mrs. suggested that there had to be some ready made pipe or piece I could refashion, so I spend a day walking through the big hardware store looking at things that might work and bingo - I find it. A piece of stove pipe with a couple of ready made pieces attached to it that can be cut off and refashioned around my chimney with just a little work.
In less than a day I've done just that. The collars are made and ready for installation along with the chimney itself. Southern Genes? Maybe so, but let's hold off on judgement until I get this project done!
See you next week!
Follow the fabrication completion by clicking here!
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