Had to repair some siding damage. I own a residential tree company and I was on a lift dropping branches when I caught the land line that was running from the corner of the customer's house out to the power pole. I had the thought to take the line down before I started sending branches down, but was rushed and in a hurry (likely how many accidents happen) and caught the line with the tip of a branch. It was mounted into the J-Channel pieced and therefore when the j-channel tore down it snagged about 7 or 8 pieces of aluminum siding, bending them all as the j-channel pulled down. I was able to bend all the pieces back, find a piece of j-channel the same color albeit in vinyl instead of aluminum. The customer was happy with the repair, and the check is in the bank! Lesson learned, always trust your gut when its telling you to do something.
Another repair I had that didn't go well was I have some recessed tracked lighting in my movie theater. It had started to come loose from the ceiling as the sheetrock anchors worked there way out. My kids pound the floor above the room so it slowly just worked the anchors loose. The person who installed it should have used a better style anchor, they used a wall anchor in the ceiling instead of a ceiling anchor. As I was going to put the whole track up again, I broke the bracket that the transformer mounts too though, stressing it too much and not realizing until it was too late. So now, I need to pull the whole track down again, take the transformer off and see if I can find a replacement bracket. I really don't want to install a different style light and mess with filling holes/repainting the ceiling. Hoping to just keep the style I have and find a replacement bracket. It's an odd design, where once you push the track up into the bracket it then begins to conduct and powers the lights. Right now, the ligths are up, but with the broken bracket, it isn't conducting electricity to the track and the lights don't work. Doh! I will probably tackle fixing a bathroom vanity drawer handle. The handle's screws stripped out on the backside so I need to switch the screws to longer bolts with washers and nuts to fix it. Not a huge deal, just gotta find the right nuts/bolts from the 'ol bucket of bolts that seemingly every guy has sitting around in his shop, lol.
Another repair I need to make is covering our bathroom vent outlet with some mesh screen, last year the wasps built a nest in there and they were getting inside our house, able to fly through the venting and into the bathroom since there was no mesh. I know this came up in the inspection when I bought the home, but it hadn't been an issue the first 8years we owned the home until last summer. Doesn't look like there is a nest in there this year, but I am gonna take care of that when I am up on the ladder cleaning the gutters near the vent.
