3.04.2013

who will fix this?

Not looking too good, the cornice and the fascia board on Claudia's Surf City, as Dada points out. It was a smaller hole last year, but then the rain drove in and the sun shone —climate got it, if not climate change.
It's a tricky bunch of angles. I have all the requisite molding stocks, mouldering and primed under the house. I might even try it myself. Except for being afraid of heights.
Trying to find a carpenter willing to do this small and finicky a job on an island of carpenters getting ready for season will be a job in itself. Maybe duct tape.
Fortunately we have no squirrels on Block Island.

5 comments:

  1. Birds.

    Birds did this.

    I know! The starlings.

    They've done it to my house.

    Use duct tape to fix it, and then put a big plastic owl over the spot so the birds don't come back.

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  2. If you measure ‘tween your hammer and roof
    The numbers, as seen, is all your proof
    You get yourself up there, and don’t look down
    Work the rake board, cut the crown

    Heights are your friend
    It’s quiet up here
    There’ll be no bones to mend
    Jist leave down the beer

    You can make this house right
    This small scrape is calling
    Spend your courage on height
    But, save your fear of falling

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  3. PS I really can't do ladders.

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  4. Rent a cherry picker?

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