Yep, that's my husband on the roof. Don't worry, he made it off in one piece. As a matter of fact, I took 1/2 of today off so I could be home while he went up there. He's not allowed to do some things without me being home.
I got up this morning and the pellet stove in the family room was off. Again....it hasn't stayed on for the past week. Which means, there's a clog in the venting. It was absolutely freezing this morning so I left a note for D saying I was coming home around noon to 'help' him clean the pellet stove and chimney.
He got scolded for wearing these pants on the roof. He didn't see anything wrong with them. I see him getting his foot stuck on the flapping fabric and tripping. Yep, men and women definitely see the same thing differently! LOL!
Since he was up on the roof, he cleaned all three chimneys and fed the tubing into the bedroom fireplace for the new pellet stove. I figured if I could only have him up there once, I'd be happy. To bad I didn't give him a paintbrush and some black paint to redo the trim. I hadn't realized how cracked it was until he got up there.
Yep, that's duct tape. Man can't live without the stuff. Actually the brush we used to clean the chimneys is for the small 4" tubes. He was adding a towel over the brush to make it fat enough to wipe the sides of the inner liner. Oh...this is where I laugh and tell you he dropped the brush and it fell through the liner and landed in the fireplace in the bedroom. It was hilarious. The look on his face when he let go of the brush and it disappeared down the chimney. Hahahahaha! Priceless!!!! Hahahahaha!
When I got home, he'd already started moving the wood burning insert out of the fireplace. He got stuck and needed a woman's advice. So of course, I gave it to him.
Oh, this is where the brush ended up. You can't see it because the insert was still attached to the liner, so we had to take everything apart in order to be able to retrieve it.
When I left for work the bedroom was clean with the exception that the bed wasn't made because he was still asleep in it. Then the remodel bug hit and all hell broke loose.
See the small tube? That's the venting for the new pellet stove. It's inside the fireplace liner. The fat tube you can barely see at the top of the picture. The fireplace liner started to slip and come down into the firebox. It was almost touching the floor of the firebox and I wasn't strong enough to push it back up. I had D get the floor jack. Then I used it to slowly push the liner back up where D could secure it. It wasn't attached to a darn thing. Go figure!
D took off for work about an hour ago, so I took the opportunity to clean up after him. The room looks nice with a minimal amount of stuff you could trip over in the dark. I think maybe I'll actually head in there and put some clothes away. I just changed and threw them on the bed when I got home.
Hopefully, by the end of the weekend I'll have a new pellet insert installed and will be able to heat the back portion of the house. Next blog I'll take a picture of the 3 tons of pellets we bought in the past couple of weeks.
You'd think I'd have biceps the size of guns instead of little old lady wiggly arms. So much for hefting 40 pound bags of pellets. Maybe I need to do it on a regular basis instead of once in awhile....nahhhhh. LOL!
