Go to home depot, lowes, ace hardware, where-ever you can buy cheap…extra large…disposable drop cloths…cover everything!!
I wish I had known this before I started!!
This shit is everywhere! In some places, you can’t even see the floor! 3 layers of shingles…and this!
I spent a couple hours up there today with wet/dry vac. I feel like I didn’t get very much of it up…sweating my ass off!
All I can say about this skylight is…I better enjoy it!!
The skylight I wanted and paid for at lowes was backordered…for a month, so I called and canceled the order. I had to go through hoops with the guy on the phone because he kept insisting that if I don’t wait, I might get something that I don’t want…yeah, no shit??!!
We jumped in the car and headed to Lowes (which really sucks because there is NOT one very close) and bought the second choice, a Velux residential skylight, I was told that i didnt need the flashing kit because it was new construction.
Well, I had to get a flashing kit yesterday. I printed out exactly what I needed and headed to Lowes. I grabbed the one with the right ITEM number.
Found out 10 minutes ago that the item number matched, but the model number didnt…so I had to run to home depot and get the correct one (I didn’t know that HD carried the Velux skylights)
One more trip back to Lowes to return the original…like I said, I better like it!
I think were going to have to walk a little slower around the house now miss magic’s eyesight seems to be a little worse than it was before… we shall see!
The last couple days have been weird! She was prescribed Tramadol (which she has never taken before) for the pain. Jen gave her her morning dose, and all seemed well. You could tell she was uncomfortable, but she seemed ok…until noonish, so I wrapped up her dose in a hot dog and got it in her. (I have no idea how she always seems to be able to eat all the hot dog, but leave the pill sitting on the floor…cheese did the trick). She seemed to be feeling good…rubbing her head on the dog bed, messing up her hair. She slept through the afternoon, but got up and moving around right before Jen got home. I gave her the evening dose, this one seemed to be weird…she was scratching at her face, rubbing her face on everything…she was in pretty bad shape. When Jen got home, she called the vet to see if this was normal, they told her to bring her in…
The diagnosis was what we expected, she was having an allergic reaction to the Tramadol, but they said that caused “serotonin syndrome”. They gave her the cure for that and send us home. (This syndrome is normal for a cat but has happened in dogs…and this pill has been known to increase appetite.)
When we got home, she was super crazy, so we fed her and gave her evening antibiotic. She ate like she was starving and I was afraid she was going to eat until she threw up, so half a hot dog, a roll and a half bowl of food was enough (she normally eats about a third of this)…but she seemed to be getting crazier, so Jen called the vet again…they said bring her right in.
Second late night trip to the vet, they don’t know if it was the allergic reaction to the tramadol or the cure…they described the allergic reaction to the cure as “frenzied”…that describes it perfectly! They had to give her activated charcoal to counteract everything. And knowing that she can tolerate acepromazine, they gave her a shot of that and send home again…it’s now after 2am!
When we got home and let her out of the crate and she could not see and she kept trying to walk to a corner, I’d pick her up and put her on her bed and she would head right back to the corner….poor girl! We had to crate her for the night…she barked all night (even when she was asleep…she barked)
Around 8am when I let her out of the crate, she was more like her normal self…and she could see, but she was still very drowsy.
We decided that she was not getting any other meds (except the Ace, and only if she needed it), the further along the day went, the more her normal self she became!
She is doing so much better!!
Not threat of rain today! Jesse and Joe installed the skylight and put down the roofing underlayment, this is how it looked when they were done today. John came by with the dump truck and cleared out all of the scraps and trash…it’s really all starting to look awesome!
Rain has been predicted for every day this week. Today is no exception, it rained in the morning, but it seems to clear before Jesse and Joe get too involved.
It did clear up, but there are heavy thunderstorms are predicted for late afternoon. Let’s see how far along they get…
Joe had to leave to go do some daddy things, so John came over to help out!
This entire week has been humid, rainy and damp. It seems like once the guys get momentum going, they have the put everything away and under tarps. Things are still moving along! The framing is almost complete!
Framing for the roof is complete, but still working on the soffit framing.
This is how it looked at the end of the day!
Scott came over to fix the AC/HVAC and noticed that the “header/carrier beam” was too low to add a door. I can’t imagine that this will go over well with Kevin, Jesse or Joe! I tossed and turned about this all night because I wanted to be sure I was awake before they got started. It’s not like I ever over-sleep, but I was worrying. I was already in worry mode because of Magic, she was going to have a rough night too.
I did let Kevin know that it was too low, but he didn’t get a chance to talk to Jesse, so after I threw Jesse for a loop, he came up with a solution that wasn’t too costly or time consuming, they started the day by tearing out most of yesterday’s work.
These guys worked hard getting back to where they were and even further along.
Thanks Jesse and Joe!
It was raining when I got up this morning, so I really didn’t expect the guys to get started today. But it did clear up around 930-10 and it was nice to see Joe and Jesse out there getting things ready!
Like every other day, Magic was quiet and stayed in the bedroom most of the day, right up until an hour or so before Jen gets home. (I swear, our dogs know what time it is and it has nothing to do with Pavlov!) As she emerged from the bedroom, she immediately started doing the boot scoot on the rug, across the hardwood floor, the little rug, the ceramic tile in the kitchen…
I let her outside, she does her job but seems to stay in poop position forever, she comes back in and runs right into Jen’s office to the carpet and sits…she runs to the living room carpet and she sits. Unfortunately, I have seen her do this before. Impacted Anal Glands..she did express one of them, but the other one was causing her some discomfort.
In the meantime, while trying to cook dinner, Scott gets here with the circuit board for the HVAC system…yep, a crazy day!
Magic’s discomfort got worst very quickly so as soon as Jen get’s home, she decides to take her to the vet. Stoney Creek is closed so they refer her to Keystone Veterinary Emergency and Referral Center in Havertown, PA. They must have seen papillon and thought $$$ because the first estimate they gave her to lance her anal gland was full blown surgery at $1100. When they saw the panicked look on Jen’s face, they went more of a reserved estimate, $475. From their office, Jen called Old Marple Vet, they had an 8am for her…so she just had to get her through the night. So Keystone gave her tramadol for the pain to get her through the night, charged her $120 for the emergency visit and sent them home.
Jen’s morning visit included waiting for a while to see a Dr, but they were able to take care of it, give her more tramadol and an antibiotic…and sent her on her way, cost $145….so even with the emergency visit to Keystone and the trip to Old Marple, it still came in way under Keystone’s reserved estimate. The vet at Marple, Dr Will, said that it would suck to be her for the next couple days, but she should be fine!