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Vent! Vent!

After I recovered from the blues & greys on Saturday, I moved it into gear on the second floor. (It's hard to stay down when you hear your dedicated spouse really working it up there. Just the guilt alone propels you out of your funk...)

So I borrowed this handy tool from our awesome neighbors, Krystina & Jay.

It's a Makita hammer drill designed to give your drilling a lot more "umph!" Necessary when you are trying to drill holes for bullet vents through a few layers of 90 year old wood and more than a few layers of stucco.

I cannot convey properly in words how DIFFICULT it is to drill through this stuff. Even with a masonry and wood circular drill bit. I felt like the world's biggest wimp!

(Above my head, you can see where the raccoons gnawed on the overhead rafters. That's all over the place up there. Our house was a big teething ring for various families of raccoon babies before we moved in.)

Aaron gave it a try, putting his 6'7" body into it and made a LOT more headway than I did in a much shorter amount of time.

This succeeded in putting my wimpy feelings over the edge and I made a pledge under my breath to fit in my old weight training routine between house and work.

I'm hoping that if we can get center holes drilled all the way through the stucco from the inside, we can spend a lot less time outside drilling the larger 3" holes back in from the stucco side by lining the circular bit up with the center holes.

That's the plan, anyway.

Posted by jeanne on August 9, 2004 at 11:38 PM

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