Ife carries on regardless of what you do.
I have been slack on house maintenance in the last few years.
But at 105 years old, you get the idea.
The original fireplaces were removed before I moved here.
BUT….., the chimneys were left in place.
So my house sprang a significant leak that only manifested with wind driven rain from the North-East.
Normally we have rain primarily from the opposite direction.
Those of you reading the text on my post will recall that I have been cutting the neighbors grass and hedges the last year or more. It was where the lawnmower I found a few weeks ago went as well.
In my world, trading skills is much more valuable than cash, and I don’t keep a record of what I do or if others do me a favour. It should flow naturally. Of course there are abusers of this way of thinking and usually by the third job or activity you get the feeling if you are being abused.
On Monday last week which was of course a public holiday in the UK, Luke, my neighbour came knocking early morning and announced that we would be building a scaffolding tower up to my roof and get the chimney fixed by the next weekend.
So we built a tower later in the day on Monday.
I primarily stayed out the way, made coffee and carried scaffolding pipes, boards from his house to my driveway and made coffee.
I also helped by just handing him some of the parts as the tower went up.
Amazing how fast it goes up when someone knows what they are doing, and is a BEAST of a man.
My neighbor at number one is a builder and certified gas maintenance technician, he services my boiler and heating system every year.
He had originally agreed to finding and fixing the leak in the roof, but it never happened.
So when he saw the tower, he called me to check what was happening. So I told him, roof repair and that I was going to call a roofing guy in.
He then offered me the use of two flat roofing ladders so I could actually get up there safely and inspect and repair it myself.
He came and installed the first flat ladder and took a look, his son delivered a second one that I took up and laid out.
So I was ready to take on the job myself now.
Luke had said he would come help and supervise me so I didn’t fall off the roof.
We don’t bounce as well when we get older.
Next stop…….. Saturday.
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