Up on the Roof Top!
Well it was another furnace day at the Van Hoecke house. The goal of the day was to run 3 (25 foot pipes) down the chimney. One for exhaust, one for cold air return and one for venting for the hot water heater. Doesn't sound too difficult, right! HAHA! What made it quite the challenge of coarse was that in order to get it started down the hole, the 2 PVC pipes had to be perfectly vertical. HMMM, just imagine my hubby and my boys on the roof with that 25 foot piping??? Seeing my 3 men on the roof wielding that monster pipe over their heads was enough to send me into panic mode, and it also brought out our elderly neighbor man to work in his garden more than usual today ; )
I could see the whole thing flinging them into the air like human catapults! This little project took several attempts and the whole day. First trial was one pipe down the hole just to see how it went down? hmmm ran into a few snags, take a break to go get a heavy duty pipe to run down for knocking off excess cement from inside the chimney! Try again. Goes in better, now try 2 pipes. OH good they fit. The 3rd pipe they are attempting is a flexy slinky type hose pipe, they try taping it to the end of the pipe to shove it down. NOT! OK take it out and another break to get a different style duct piping. Screw together about 10 pieces of that, tape joints according to codes. MUST FOLLOW CODES! Lets give that a try, after 2 attempts at that, it is in. Whew, it is 6:45! Man am I glad that is done, I can breathe easy again! At least till tomorrow. Anyway to take my mind off of the worry today, I was scouring through magazines looking for images that I could use to depict the whole story. It was too much for an ATC, so it is done as an Artists Postcard. I think this little work of art turned out hilarious and pretty true to life!
I could see the whole thing flinging them into the air like human catapults! This little project took several attempts and the whole day. First trial was one pipe down the hole just to see how it went down? hmmm ran into a few snags, take a break to go get a heavy duty pipe to run down for knocking off excess cement from inside the chimney! Try again. Goes in better, now try 2 pipes. OH good they fit. The 3rd pipe they are attempting is a flexy slinky type hose pipe, they try taping it to the end of the pipe to shove it down. NOT! OK take it out and another break to get a different style duct piping. Screw together about 10 pieces of that, tape joints according to codes. MUST FOLLOW CODES! Lets give that a try, after 2 attempts at that, it is in. Whew, it is 6:45! Man am I glad that is done, I can breathe easy again! At least till tomorrow. Anyway to take my mind off of the worry today, I was scouring through magazines looking for images that I could use to depict the whole story. It was too much for an ATC, so it is done as an Artists Postcard. I think this little work of art turned out hilarious and pretty true to life!
posted by "T" Van Hoecke at 11:10 PM
3 Comments:
This is wonderful T! Hilarious. :o))
It was hilarious and frightening at the same time. If only you could have really seen that 25 foot PVC pipe swaying back and forth up there, as they tried to keep it vertical and get it down the chimney hole!
That is a great card. And that would be scary what if it flipped the wrong way and "crash" there goes a window. And yet very funny lol
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