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Township Easement

2010-02-21T07:12:00.003-05:00

Came home Wednesday night to find the township had plowed around the opening of my driveway.

Well that's nice of them. Typically your driveway just gets plowed in.

A closer inspection revealed things weren't so nice. In plowing around the entrance of our driveway they completely plowed over our street number and a shrub that was planted near the road.

Well that sucks.

I took some pictures and headed over to the township office the next morning.

Turns out the township has an easement that runs sixteen and a half feet from the middle of the road out into everyone's property. This gives them the right to plow back huge piles of snow that might otherwise cause safety issues with "line of sight".

My driveway is such a case. There's a dip and a rise just before you get to it. If a car rolling down the road is in that dip, they can't see me coming out of my driveway when there's four feet of snow piled up around it.

In the end, all I could do was thank the township for making my driveway safer and easier to enter and exit.

The landscaping and street number were put there by the previous owner

I tried salvaging the shrub.

I'll deal with the street number later.

- b

Fios Battery

2010-02-20T17:11:00.003-05:00

Did you know the battery in a Fios system would need replacing?

I should have known. It's not like batteries last forever.

Turns out the backup battery is only used to keep the phone working in the event of a power outage. The phone I don't care about. If the stupid thing didn't beep every so often to let me know the battery was dead, I would have just left it.

A little research on the interweb and I found I could get a replacement from Verizon for $100 or one from Radio Shack (that probably won't work) for $35.

I opted for the $35.

It fit. The beeping stopped and all the lights are green again.

We'll see how long it lasts.

- b

Water in the Basement

2010-02-20T08:56:00.003-05:00

The tenant came home one night to find water in her basement.

The first thing you do whenever there's water in your basement is look for the source (duh). In this case it appeared to be coming from the furnace or the condensation pump.

I took the furnace inspection panels off and looked all inside. No water there, so we focused more on the pump. We poured more water into the pump to see if it was working and it was.

Hmmm.

The best guess was with the exhaust pipe.

Notice where the pipe exits the foundation? It appears to be only a couple of inches above the ground. There's a standard distance the pipe should be above the ground for clearance of things like snow. Not meeting that standard, they put in a 90°, ran a vertical piece the standard, then added another 90°.

The nights previous to the water in the basement had been really cold (single digit cold). Our theory was the steam passing through the vertical piece during the cold quickly condensed and froze. When the temps warmed up, all that ice melted and ran back down to the pump overwhelming it.

Ok, so how do you fix that?

It turns out the "ground" beneath where the pipe exits isn't really the ground. It's a raised flower bed that robs the pipe of the clearance it should have. In the spring the plan is to dig out that part of the flower bed so the pipe can horizontally run out of the foundation at the proper height. That should cure the condensation problem of the vertical pipe on really cold nights and remove two 90°s, thus increasing flow.

At least that's the theory.

- b

Playing Landlord

2010-01-24T09:14:00.003-05:00

The new house needed a few things done before the new tenant moved in.

First we had Michelangelo throw some paint on the walls.

Then it was my turn to steam clean the carpets.

But there's a problem. Being new at this whole landlord deal, we missed the water contract. That means no water in the house till next week.

Without water, how do you steam clean?

You haul water over there.

Very carefully with everything else.

Yeah. My life has been exalted to precariously hauling water in cat litter boxes.

At the house I vacuumed while the water was at a low boil. Fired up the steam cleaner and had it all done in a couple of hours.

The carpets still need replacing.

Maybe next year.

- b

More Bike Maintenance

2010-01-12T22:08:00.002-05:00

You'd think I was riding more or something.

The other day, while swapping the clown tire back to the normal one, I noticed my bottom bracket (bearings between the cranks and axle) was bad.

My cranks had a little swagger in them. The left side bearing felt like a loose bag of marbles opposed to the tight/smooth piece of machinery it's supposed to be.

Luckily I had a spare set of semi-used bearings just lying around, which is great considering my aversion to spending money on this thing right now.

I honestly wasn't sure what the condition of the spare bearings were, but was willing to try.

Hell. It's not like the bike wouldn't appreciate the handling anyway.

It's really a quick job. I think I spent more time cleaning off all the crud then actually removing and installing the new set of bearings.

The verdict?

The new ones are good. My cranks peddle straight again.

- b

Bike Maintenance Cont.

2010-01-08T07:01:00.003-05:00

Clown tire isn't going to work in the rear. It rubbed.

The brake was rubbing too. I thought I'd try a different caliper position, but the pads had been worn to fit the rotor a certain way. With the caliper in a different position, the pads were rubbing differently and creating resistance. Climbing sucks more then usual when your rotors are dragging.

So I changed the tire and put the caliper back to its original position.

All in time for a snow ride.

- b

Some Bike Maintenance

2010-01-06T06:39:00.003-05:00

Since my riding average had gone from three times a quarter to three times in a week, I decided it was time for a little maintenance.

My chain had dropped on two different rides. Considering my ride average, that's not a very good statistic for equipment failure.

So first thing to do was check the condition of my chain. Eyeballing it I knew there was some slack, but had no idea it was this bad.

For those that don't know, this is a chain checker and it says the chain is bad - really bad.

Great! So it's bad, time to replace it. Not quite.

It's so bad, technically I should replace the cog and the chain ring. Simply throwing a new chain on the old gears could make things worse or just wear out a new chain faster.

So I checked the cog. Unfortunately there's no cool technical gizmo for checking cogs. It's all eyeball.

And my eyeballs have an astigmatism, but what's supposed to be little half circles between the teeth now look like little half ovals.

At this point it's not even worth looking at the chain ring.

So what's a guy do with some messed up bike parts, a kid due the end of the month and a house closing next week?

Flip the cog around (so the ovals stretch the other way) and tighten the chain via the sliding axle adjustments.

Voila! Single speed bike is fixed. Riding three times in one week isn't worth new stuff. If I start to average that per week, maybe I'll reconsider.

Since I was playing bike mechanic, I decided some different (notice I didn't say new?) tires could make things interesting.

I should just call them clown tires. They're huge. The bike is more rubber then it is steel.

There so big, I had to be careful how true the rear wheel was when fitting in the frame.

Considering my aversion to bike maintenance cost, I had better got the wheel true or I'm buying a new frame.

- b

Headlight Hell

2010-01-05T06:17:00.003-05:00

The passenger side headlight went out in Jen's car.

That's easy enough. The way headlights are today you just pop a clip, pull out the bulb, put the new one in and reset the clip.

It took me nearly two hours to do that in Jen's car. If it had been the drivers side, it would have gone much faster.

In her Prius, to change the passenger side bulb, you need to first remove an engine cowl then an air intake. Once that's done, you have a tiny little space you can't see to work in upside down.

The next step is removing the waterproof cover. The instructions say "turn counter-clockwise (but it's backwards) and pull. If it sticks wiggle it a little". I pulled, wiggled, pulled, wiggled, cursed, threw some tools, etc before the damn thing popped off.

The next step is the clip (locks the bulb in place) - like any headlight clip, just unclip it - but it's backwards and upside down. Fumbling for the clip I managed to dislodge the bulb from under the clip, but not enough to remove the bulb - only enough to prevent the clip from being unclipped.

Did I mention it was freezing outside even in the garage? My fingers felt like wooden pegs. I couldn't feel it when they cut on some sharp edge. I'd pull my greasy fingers out bleeding and not realize it till I saw it.

Finally I asked Jen for some kind of mirror. She had an old compact I was able to use and see what happened.

Using the mirror I could see the bulb, see the clip and see where it all got messed up. Unfortunately I couldn't hold the mirror and work on the bulb at the same time. I had to commit to memory what I saw, reverse it, then translate it to what I felt with my wooden peg fingers.

It took a while. It took a long while and some tool throwing before I got the old bulb back in the right spot so I could finally unclip it. The bulb came out. The new one went in. I snapped the clip back in place, then reassembled the rest.

I really hate this crap. That was two freaking hours of frustration and freezing. For two pleasant hours of my life, I would have easily paid $50 to have my mechanic do that.

- b

Almost Got it All

2010-01-04T06:15:00.003-05:00

We started the holiday break with a lengthy list of things to do. Most of it had to do with the preparation of our new family member, which really meant - make more room.

Since Jen and I moved in four years ago, we've primarily lived on the top floor of our house (we have a bi-level), and either put or left everything else in storage downstairs. With a kid coming, with new furniture and a whole bunch of other crap on their own, we had to some reorganizing.

The main culprit is what we call the blue room. It's a room downstairs with blue carpet. It's served a couple of purposes over the four years and has been documented in this here blog. Lately it's just been a huge catch-all for stuff. It's caught so much stuff, you could hardly open the door.

What's amazed us most is that the majority of the stuff is now simply gone. We threw out a lot. We've made one trip to Goodwill - soon to make another. We Freecycled a bunch of stuff. One women called me the most generous person on Freecycle (meanwhile I'm cursing all the lousy-bastard no-shows). And we also moved things around.

We had storage in our garage attic that was hardly used. When we found something we needed to keep, but not use often, it got boxed and moved out to the attic.

The Picture is meant to be dark. That's how I saw it in all my trips into the garage yesterday. Kind of creepy. Reminded me of Samara's (The Ring) hideaway in the horse barn. No wonder all the horses killed themselves.

Items that needed to be handy, we moved into our newly organized "workroom" or the newly added shelves I put in our furnace room.

By 9pm last night our blue room had become simply another room.

Unfortunately that lasted all of five minutes. There are other rooms whose use take priority in the coming weeks, so the goal was only to get this one completely clear so we could clear out the other higher priority rooms.

Like I said - almost got it all.

At least now we're way closer to having it all clean and clutter free. More like a house we live in and not just a space we store stuff.

At least that's the effect I was going for when I hung some pictures in my gear room.

- b

Picture Says it All

2010-01-02T09:02:00.001-05:00

- b

Miscellaneous Crap

2010-01-01T10:26:00.003-05:00

Haven't been very project oriented over the holiday break.

I got the important thing done - getting the tractor ready to plow - in case of mid snow storm labor pains.

but after that it's all been random crap like taking the bad cleats out of my "old riding shoes", so I can replace them and stop using my "good shoes".

Like I ride enough to warrant "old" and/or "good" shoes. Don't have new cleats yet. Wouldn't really need them till it warms up anyway.

I did some website work (refresh your cache), but nothing as far as necessary improvements, just maintenance.

I also reorganized my detached garage so the truck is NOT parked on the side with access to the attic. We've been moving a lot of the crap that's been unused in the house to the detached garage attic. Having that space more easily accessible (not having to move the truck every time) will make it more viable. In the process I actually emptied three or so boxes that had been packed in the garage since we moved here. Now my workbench is almost usable.

I also started a top-secret project with my commuter bike and the trainer.

Yes I plan to start riding the trainer, but there's an added piece waiting on parts to complete the project. More to follow soon.

We've also been running a lot of baby stuff errands. We spent one morning measuring the walls and current furniture in our nursery, then looking online at various nursery pieces to see what we liked and what might fit. We settled on some things, ran down to the store and placed an order.

Jen has also been procuring and organizing lots of "cute outfits." We might actually be ready for this thing when it comes.

What to do today?

- b

Not Nesting Yet

2009-12-27T07:54:00.003-05:00

Not quite nesting, but we've been working feverishly to get things cleaned up and make more room for the baby.

So far on our holiday break, I finished/completely hacked my toolbox shelf thingy.

Cleaned up the gear room.

Which I've done numerous times, but this time was significantly different. I had and used this box in the gear room,

which I built the summer after my freshmen year in college. I built it as a gear/storage box that fit perfectly behind the cab of my truck and between my roommates and my loft in our dorm room. In my apartment in Spring City it was my gear box and sat in the living room. The same went for our house in Paoli. You can see the scratches on top where CJ used to jump on it to see/bark out the window.

In our house now, where I have an entire room (with closet) for gear, the box was taking up more room then saving it. Soon enough it could be a toy box for kids, but for now it will move out to the garage to hold tools or something.

The next room is our "blue room".

Though it looks in shambles, we've made a lot of progress here. Jen spent the weekend "filing" (either filing or throwing away) all the papers and documents we had stored in here. I've got a huge pile and list on Freecycle to get rid of a bunch of stuff and there's a huge pile for the trash. Hopefully by the end of today we'll have more then just a spare closet, but a spare room as well.

- b

Spare Closet is Ready

2009-12-23T14:08:00.003-05:00

Who knew it would take so long for a closet?

Finally got around to wiping down the walls. I won't go into how nasty that actually was. Let it dry and now it's usable.

It's so nice to check things off the list. No matter how small they may seem.

Next step is to get the room in which the closet is in cleaned up and the room in which the baby will be nurserified.

- b

Doesn't Work

2009-12-14T07:15:00.003-05:00

It appears the battery hack I tried on the dog collars isn't going to work.

In two attempts using off the shelf batteries each lasted only two weeks.

The batteries in the plan usually last three or four months.

Unless both batteries from radio shack were bad, I have no idea why the hack doesn't work.

- b

A Little More

2009-12-09T06:34:00.004-05:00

While "working from home" yesterday afternoon I was able to do a few more things with our new overflow closet.

Exciting huh? A bar by which to hang stuff....

I even vacuumed the space. The only thing left is wiping down the walls and the shelf. Because the cat litter box used to be housed in here, it's a little dusty.

- b

Mixed Bag

2009-12-07T06:27:00.003-05:00

Originally I was supposed to be away this weekend. When plans changed keeping me home, I kind of decided to not do anything and maybe relax a little.

So even though I knew it was supposed to rain/snow Saturday afternoon and I wouldn't have another chance until January, I didn't do the last bit of the leaves in the yard to finish up with them for the year.

But I didn't sit around and do nothing either.

Part of my responsibility in the whole nesting phenomenon is the preparation side. We have a room designated as "the nursery" but it's currently a bedroom with overflow from our closet and drawers. The first task for me is to make available closet space elsewhere, so the closet in "the nursery" can be utilized solely for baby stuff. Seems basic and off-topic from nursery nesting conversations, but I bet fathers everywhere have performed similar tasks prior to the execution of nesting - so follow along.

We have a "spare" room downstairs that we've used mostly for storage - storage of crap we could really just get rid of. In that room is a closet that we've used primarily as our IT closet. In there we had our computer, patch panel, printer, network storage, switches, cables, etc. The idea is to make that closet available as our overflow and rearrange the IT stuff to do so.

Rearranging the IT stuff meant moving most of it out of the closet and into our "work room" where we have these shelves that again we've poorly utilized since moving here. For the most part we just toss things up there and dig around for them later when we need it. That's a huge waste of space. So one of the very first tasks for me in preparing for "the nesting" is organizing these shelves.

Are you still following? We've gone from nursery closet, to spare closet, to work room shelves. See the path?

You can see in the photo I've started a little on the middle shelf on the left. I've been picking low hanging fruit so far and that section was easiest.

The next easiest piece was the toolbox area. In the middle of the shelves I had some toolboxes stacked. Some of which were empty, some of which belonged in other places, and some of which took up too much space. In the picture to the right you see my "roll-away" pieces. The top half has always sat on this little shelf I had made for it. The lower piece was sitting in the middle of the above mentioned shelves taking up too much space. Why I never added it to the collection on the toolbox shelf, I have no idea. Eh. That's not true. The reason it was never added was because the bottom shelf wasn't built to hold it. The legs didn't provide enough space for it to fit down there, so that was the next task.

A little measuring, some cutting, this should be quick and easy!

Not quite. First I didn't accommodate for the lock and label, so after cutting a bunch, making a lot of sawdust, and stuffing it in there, I had to pull it all out, measure and cut again.

Now it slid in past the lock, but I had another issue. I completely forgot that the legs on the other side needed cutting too for the box to completely fit on the shelf.

Doh!

Didn't matter. Jen had another task that needed attention.

Once the tree was up, we headed off to our friends house for the afternoon, so everything was left as it was.

Now back at it on Sunday, for some reason I decided to leave the toolbox as it was for now. I guess I decided the availability of the closet was more important and the empty shelf (from the big set of shelves) the toolbox made was enough to move out the computer equipment from the closet.

So I moved out the equipment and reorganized what had to stay in the closet so we could utilize the closet for it's original intention - hanging clothes.

It's not pretty, and I could have spent a lot more time on constructing a more sophisticated rack for the patch panel, but it's functional and I've got a lot more crap to get to. At least now we have a closet where we can hang clothes (once I put up the bar) that even has an available shelf for whatever else.

I still need to get back to that toolbox and the rest of the shelves in the basement. And now that I look at those pictures of my toolboxes precariously stacked on that rickety little wooden deal, I probably need to do something to strengthen and secure that thing so it doesn't come tumbling down when some little tyke decides it's a jungle gym.

- b

Attic's Done!

2009-11-22T16:10:00.003-05:00

Finished the attic today. Pulled up the last bag of insulation (I think that's six or seven total? Roughly $300) and distributed the batts.

So glad that's done.

Won't have to go up there until Jen wants new ceiling fans or a whole house fan.

While I was finishing that, Jen started the leaves.

I think we've got one more weekend of leaves, though I won't be around for a weekend for quite a while.

- b

Light on the Projects

2009-11-15T09:13:00.003-05:00

Didn't have a whole lot of time or motivation yesterday so I only got the deck furniture hauled up into the attic.

At least it was a semi-fun engineering endeavor.

At some point I need to make a door/cover for the opening in our garage ceiling to tidy things up a bit.

- b

Septic Fix

2009-11-13T19:45:00.003-05:00

All I've ever heard from my father is stuff like "I've lived here 17 years and never pumped the tank!"

So after only being here four years, I didn't think things would be all that bad.

Overall it wasn't that bad, but the system was neglected and installed improperly (or something like that).

The plan was to access the Distribution Box and add levelers to the drain field access points.

We hired the eldredge company to do the work.

They showed up around 8am and started digging. You can see in the picture the "D Box" (the black plastic thing) they brought in case they had to replace what we had.

They found the D Box, an old commercial style concrete one, and discovered it was too deteriorated to install the levelers. Apparently over time methane eats away at the concrete. He showed me how on the inside the concrete had turned soft and you could scrape it away. That of course meant replacing the D Box. You can sort of see from this picture the irregularities in the lid caused by the methane. They had put the lid back on upside down while they went and got the mini track hoe.

With the track hoe, they dug the old D Box out. They also discovered we actually have six drain fields (there were six pipes leading out of the old D Box). This meant a couple of things. They had to get a bigger D Box (7 hole version was required. One inlet and six outlets) and had to inspect the other two drain fields. The inspection included prodding the soil to check absorption in the drain fields and running a camera down the pipes inspecting their integrity.

They found more problems. One of the extra drain fields we didn't know about before has two issues. The first is it's too close to the pool. More specifically the pool wasn't installed at the correct ten foot offset from any septic source. The second issue was the pool shed is installed over top of the drain field. Your not supposed to even drive over a septic field let alone set a shed on top of it. The risk of compaction is too great and detrimental to the draining effectiveness. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot we can do about either now.

When they went to install the new D Box, they found another issue. The inlet pipe coming from the septic tank was angled incorrectly. The inlet should be flowing downhill to the D Box (no brainer right?). In our case it wasn't. Not only that, but it wasn't connected to tank incorrectly and actually leaking down the side of the tank. This part wasn't in the initial estimate and would cost more if I wanted it fixed.

Of course I wanted it fixed, so they did.

Now I have a new distribution box with speed levelers, an empty tank (pumped out 1,000 ga), and a repaired connection from the tank to the distribution box.

Should be good right?

Who knows?

The whole septic thing (at least in PA) is a mystery. Even the septic people seem surprised if it works or lasts. The whole time the guy kept suggesting I look into getting an easement through my neighbors property to access public sewer on the street in front of our house.

Great. I just spent $2k on a fix you're not confident about. I'll be sure to get as much as I can out of it, before I go the easement route.

- b

Fall Yard Day

2009-11-08T19:35:00.002-05:00

Finally got around to some much needed yard work and leaves.

Jen fired up the leaf blower and started that part of the day.

While I rented an extendable chainsaw and went after the Wisteria.

It gets so tall I've been precariously balancing on a ladder the last couple of years trying to trim it back each fall. This year I decided to just whack it all down and see what comes back.

Then it was time to rake the leaves that Jen had moved with the blower into the yard.

Of course Gretchen had to help - look close, she's there.

It was after dark when I finished mulching. I'll have to wait and see tomorrow how it came out.

- b

Projects Not By Me

2009-11-07T08:57:00.002-05:00

Discovered two issues with our home this week.

Most people think what I do around here is necessary and that our house is a total fixer upper. That's generally not the case. Most of the time I'm just fidgety and need to make things different.

But these projects really are issues.

The first was the trickling sound I kept hearing in the basement.

Turns out the nice new water conditioner we put in less then two years ago is leaking through its purge pipe. It's not leaking all over the basement, but it is leaking. Of course now that I write this, I feel I should have been more adamant about when they should come fix it. Essentially it's the same as leaving your faucet slightly open and running water down the drain. That sucks.

The second is our septic. We've been here four years now and have done nothing with the septic besides fill it. The previous owners had it inspected and cleaned right before we moved in. In considering moving, we decided to have it inspected and possibly cleaned. The inspection failed.

There are four trenches by which it drains (the four blue flags I assume). In between the tank (the white PVC you see in the background) and the four trenches there's a distribution box that obviously distributes to the four trenches. Somehow they determined only the second trench is being used. Their theory is that the distribution box is no longer level and that's why it's only distributing to one trench. They're proposing coming in here to dig up the distribution box and repair it; otherwise, it won't pass inspection.

yay.

- b

The List Gets Longer

2009-11-02T07:19:00.003-05:00

My well is leaking.

Huh?

Ok. Not exactly my well, but the pipe that runs the electric out to the well is carrying water back into the house.

My plan is to silicone the joint where it's leaking. Probably not the best permanent fix, but we'll see how well it lasts.

Now if it would just stop raining long enough for the ground to dry enough for the water to stop running in, I could actually try and fix it.

- b

Two Jobs Today

2009-11-01T18:03:00.003-05:00

Before I could get up in the attic and finish the vents, I had to fix the hole in the ceiling of our master bathroom.

It's not so much a hole as it is a gap. It was created last May when my Dad and I moved the wall forward six inches (see that here).

My plan was to simply add a bogus ceiling joist (the red), cut some drywall and screw it up there.

As I'm running up into the attic, in the bathroom and downstairs measuring and cutting stuff, I'm explaining to Jen we won't be able to put a center light in the shower because there's a real joist running right through the center. We'll have to offset a light or two around the center... and the bogus joist I'm putting up there she points out.

Damnit. That won't work, so she suggests I cut the hole all the way back to the center joist and put up a bigger piece of drywall.

So I start cutting.

I cut so much, I broke one of my razor knives.

Not related to the broken knife (I have plenty), but for some reason I pulled out the dremel to do some fine tuning of the cuts. What a mess that is.

Since the dremel was out, I decided to cut off some screws that were sticking too far through the wall. Sparks!

Then it was time to cut the new piece. Lucky for me, I have plenty of un-used drywall just hanging around the house.

Surprising it fit pretty well the first time. Sure there was some trimming required, but the new piece went in fairly easily.

Ok, so that one's done.

Run to the distributor and get a case of beer so it's cold when I'm done for the day.

Next job.

I had nine more soffit vents to put up in the attic. What a blast. I hate this job. Though it looks kind of cool and cozy with all that fluffy insulation, it just sucks up there. It's filthy. Oh, and the constant risk of falling through the ceiling and landing on your head on the floor below.

Though some things find it homey.

Figures this was in the last soffit area. I cleaned out the nest, slid the vent down and stapled it.

That was it for the vents. The entire attic is now vented.

I had a bag of insulation, so I spread those hoping to finally cover all the attic with R 40+ something, but one bag wasn't quite enough. I'll have to get another bag and get back up there some other time.

And that was it for today. Well almost. I had to clean this up too.

Hopefully that beer's cold.

- b

Snow Chain Giveaway

2009-10-31T14:22:00.003-04:00

I've got more tractor tire chains then I need, so I'm offering up a set for free.

Package says they fit 23 x 10.5 - 12 tires, but they didn't quite fit mine.

Maybe I should have used the included extender links, but I never did.

Honestly I can't guarantee that's the right packaging for these chains, so the chains themselves measure 13.5" x 48". Since the wheels on my tractor are 23 x 10.5 - 12, I figure if you have something slightly smaller these would work perfectly, or try the extenders.

I also have a brand new set of these

for sale $25. That's half off. These are the ones (another pair) that do fit my tractor wheels and work quite nicely.

Email me or leave a comment if interested.

- b

Skimmer's Done

2009-10-31T13:47:00.003-04:00

Finished the pool skimmer caulk last night in the dark.

I had enough caulk this time, but not quite enough experience.

I had a suspicion I would need to completely caulk over what I had caulked earlier in the week, otherwise you'd see an obvious difference in flow. Sure enough this morning when I checked it, there's about an eight inch section I didn't re-caulk and it's noticeable.

Oh well. Lesson learned. At least it's done and I don't have to worry about ice cracking the coping or concrete because there wasn't any caulk.

- b