No More Birds

Thankgoodness!

Our chimney guy came last week to clean out the chimney. Unfortunately, we had to cover the fireplace back up before he left with plywood because we don't have a cap on the top of our chimney. The average size, according to him, for a chimney is 13in x 13in. 13 inches seems awfully small, I think. Ours is 35in x 17in. He ordered our cap and returned today.

He is an older man, probably in his 60s. He had NO ONE with him. Our house is 2 stories, 3 if you count the attic that is like a room of its own. How did he get this massive cap up to the chimney? A ladder! That's all...a ladder. No pulley system or anything! I couldn't believe it.

A placed a ladder at the back of the house from the ground to the top roof. We have a smaller roof from our side porch, but he totally skipped it and just went for the top. He carried the cap up with him. I'm still in shock. However, we now have a nice, beautiful cap on our chimney to keep out rain, birds, bats, and other small animals. I'm soooo glad. Now we can remove the plywood ifront of the fireplace inside and we don't have to stress about birds or bats living in our chimney. Such a relief!

I can't wait to get shutters for our windows! We have 18 windows...so we'll have to do a few at a time. And hopefully in the future we'll get new siding also.