@jerry-d
On satisfying home repairs:
In my mom’s old one-story house, there’s this crawlspace under the roof. It’s not even really a crawlspace because that implies there’s enough space to get on your hands and knees. If you’re dexterous enough, you can wriggle, like a caterpillar, across the horizontal wood beams to get to where you want to do home repairs, etc. You’ve got to mostly lie prone as there are diagonal braces and trusses all over. Between those horizontal wooden beams is the drywall which is the ceiling of the rooms below so one false move or knee in the wrong place and you’ve just made a dent or hole in the ceiling of one of the rooms below. My brother & I spent hours installing wire mesh covering small holes to the house exterior. A staple gun, bunch of chicken wire, and blood, sweat, and tears did the job. Some outfit quoted us $1200 for parts and labor. After 3+ hours, we were able to extricate ourselves from that claustrophobia-inducing crawlspace and from the $1200 bill. 😎
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