They were bad enough back when I was semi- healthy.
Now that I have no blood flow to my legs they fucking kill me.
Ya gotta get down on your knees, stick the thing on the hole and push enough to leave an imprint of that little piece sticking out, then pull it back out and cut it out with a razor knife and then push it back all the way in. After just two if them I almost wasn’t able to get back on my feet I hurt so bad.
I had gone up and bought 10 of the damn things because it got down to freezing around here and The Wifely Unit had got on my ass about them a couple days ago.
I was just happy the hardware store actually had some unlike last year.
I wound up using 6 of the 10 and literally had to stop and let the blood catch up after only 4.
Hurting like a bastard, I willed myself to get down and finish the other 2.
While I was up getting them, The Kid texted and me and informed me that he was coming over to do a “Tune Up” on his girlfriends car.
Nice to get some advance warning eh?
Like he knows what the fuck he is doing?
This after I put a starter in my cousin’s rig on Friday. He’s a good kid and there weren’t any mechanic shops that weren’t booked up for 2 weeks and he, his Mom and her BF had come down earlier in the year and helped clean up the yard so I had no problem helping out.
Thankfully I didn’t have to crawl under the fucker, just take the battery and tray out so I could get to it. The Kid and this tune up is another story. I can guarantee you that he doesn’t even know there are special sockets for spark plugs, that you have to gap them or anything. So I will wind up out there giving a class on it and it’s cold outside.
There’s no rest for the wicked. I have to go in and get a Cat Scan again tomorrow morning. Hopefully this will be one of the last hold up’s before surgery. After 19 fucking months….
I feel your pain, Brother.
Today I changed the diff cover, pinion seal and yoke on the neighbor’s ’98 Silverado. That was holding up putting in the driveshaft it spit out last Monday. I’m getting too old to be laying on the frozen ground doing this shit. At least it got all the way up to 30 today.
At some point, I’ll get a couple of minutes to work on my own stuff.
Hope the medical BS goes well so you can finally get some relief.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
As long as you prefer being above ground to below you ahead of the game. But getting old is not for the weak.
What are those things ? Air vent covers?
Yeah, for the foundations under houses.
Unless you have standing water issues under your house, you should put down a vapor barrier on the ground, close those vents and never open them again. Ever.
They are just open holes in the concrete foundation, there is nothing to open or close. That’s why you have to put the styrofoam inserts in to keep your pipes from freezing in the winter. The damn varmints dig them out looking to get under the house to stay warm.
It’s a never ending cycle every year.
I have thought about gluing them in but then after the varmints tear them up it would be a huge pain to have to get down and scrape all the shit out so you could do it again.
Glad to see this asked and answered. I’d never seen them before, either. Must be a regional thing, and more commonly found in areas where basements aren’t typical. Don’t believe I’ve ever seen such a product offered around here (Midwest).
I can’t tell from the photo what your foundation is made of. You might look into a slightly oversize plywood cover and some Tap-Con screws to hold it in place.