The things we do when on vacation…

Lyon and I were up at the crack of dawn this morning and off to get a two-story ladder to get on the roof and take a look at the swamp cooler.

See, Lyon is on vacation this week and I’m sort of taking a week off too, so what do we do? House repairs…

It’s fun though as we make a hell of a team in just about anything we do. So while Lyon disassembled the cooler and checked out components I cleaned the filters and diagnosed the parts as he pulled them. It turns out that the copper line feeding the things has a break in it and the water pump had melted down.

We had help from Scales too who ran around getting tools, flipping switches, and fiddling with valves. He’s also got a hell of an arm and can put a can of wd40 right into your hand from 20 feet down. 🙂

So right now we’re down from the roof, Lyon is off to Home Depot to get a new $10 pump, a length of rubber hose, and two small hose clamps while I fiddle with Larry’s web-thing for a bit.

While we were up there we cleaned the gutters, checked over the shingles, checked the caulking around the vents, and performed the usual seasonal home maintenance. It’s hotter than hell today, 100+, but we’re having fun. 🙂

Once we get the cooler running we’ll be living like kings! (chuckle)

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