This is before I started work on this home.The first part of the job was to powerwash remove the old deck and bushes.Calking and priming begins with a new coat of paint.

Roof vent leak at the stack

9.24.06



This morning I will be patching a leak at the roof vent for a new customer. (pictured at right)
This is the pipe that sticks out of the roof of your home and is the largest of the roof vents on the roof of the home.

Your plumbing system is vented to the atmosphere to allow waste water to flow to the main sewer at the street or septic tank. Think of this vent as a straw. If you submerge a straw in to a liquid and then hold your finger over the end, when you remove the straw
the liquid will stay in the straw. When you remove your finger the liquid will flow.

All plumbing systems have a vent. There is another type of vent that is used when there is no other option to vent to the atmosphere. This is called inline vent. (Pictured above at left)
I have had customers with slow or non flowing sinks that assume there is a clog.
This is not true, the real reason is that the vent is closed and not venting like a straw.

This usually happens in the colder times of the year when the inline vent is exposed to the colder temperature. The remedy is to plunge with your hand or use a plunger. Sometimes moving the inline vent is the best remedy.



Job complete.

This was a tricky one the roof pitch was 12/12, I positioned my ladder at the gable and crawled out 4’ (I was praying all the way). This was no fun but the work is done.
Also I installed a complete new dryer vent system.

This house is over one hundred years old and has lathe and plaster with no insulation and asbestos siding.

This customer want’s an additional bid to blow insulation.

Today I will be meeting with a customer and installing a kitchen faucet and an InSinkErator. Also another new customer and giving a free estimate.

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Alan, I have a job I need completed fairly quickly and I'm hoping that you can either help or point me in the right direction. I have an interior door I need installed. There is decorative molding around the door frame that would have to be cut back in order to install the door. I also would like a chair rail installed in the room where the door would be installed. The room is roughly 10x10. Please let me know if this is something you might be able to help with.