Well, we got a lot of stuff done, and then it rained.
I mean a HARD rain There was a waterfall down the face of the fireplace. So yesterday I climbed up on the roof to inspect, and found that the flashing had detatched itself from the calk on the chimney. I chipped all the old shit out and reattached the flashing, calking under and over it. Looks good, and I only sweat two Gatorade containers full of sweat, and three more bee stings.
Standing on the edge of the roof lifting my satchel of stuff, the hummingbird came up and eyeballed me as if to say “Yes, I know you’re ten thousand times my size, but I can blind you and be back in my bed sleeping soundly before you’re done falling off the roof”. I love hummingbirds, vicious little bastards.
I often ponder what life would be like if hummingbirds were blood-drinkers. People would have to carry tennis rackets to swat them, I’d imagine, and horror stories would exist of people tied to trees by tyrants and left for the hummingbirds.
Down here, mosquitoes are darned near the size of hummingbirds and perform that bloodsucking thing quite handily.
MC
I know you don’t want to spend funds with a roofer, but that fix calls for a “saw cut” into the brick, angled upwards about 30 degrees. Into which a new piece of full length flashing, (rather than step-flashing), with the appropriate bend, is inserted into the caulk-filled saw cut.
The caulking should be Sonneborn NP-1, or Tremco Dymonic, both one part, urethane materials.
Your repair will be good for a few years, or until a new roof is called for.
I’m working up an estimate for one though, where the builder should be dragged off and shot.
2nd story gutter, downspout emptied out directly atop 2.5/12 slope shingle over enclosed patio, below.
The weight and velocity of that water has eroded an 18″ wide x 36″ long HOLE in the decking, under the shingle and underlayment. It’s finally found it’s way into the master bedroom, ruining an interior wall.
Who in the hell has a downspout drain ON TO a roof system?
*shakes head in dismay*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Glad you got some things done. If we looked like flowers I’m sure hummingbirds would find a use for us.
Hummingbird zappers would probably drop your neighborhood off the grid at peak season…
Hummingbirds ARE territorial little bastards too… sigh
I love sitting on my open patio of an evening, with a beverage, watching the BIG hummer male next door rise like an Iron Dome missile to take on some errant songbird who has lit up his radar. The neighba is a Master Gardner, has 250+ different flowering plants growing in/on his terraced yard, and that smorgasbord of nectar is a goldmine for hummers. There is, of course, an Alpha Male, snd this guy is amazing.
I was watering my veggie patch the other day and the big guy flew up the hose stream for a flying drink. It was near sunset of a scorching day of 95 or so.