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Just part of the job, Ma’am

Posted on 3 September 2014

No one warned me about cats.  There was nothing in the curriculum at North Bennett, and none of my early employers mentioned anything.  But it turns out that cats play a crucial role in our daily work:  keeping the indoor cats in, the outdoor cats out, making sure there’s litter box access for everyone who needs it.  And sometimes it gets more interesting.

 

Our current job is in a very feline-friendly neighborhood, so we didn’t pay much attention to the persistent meowing coming from the front of the house.  But around mid day, our client realized that her very shy cat Mika was not merely hiding but actually missing.  Then we looked up:

 

Cat stuck on rooflet

 

It seems that she made her way out of a (barred) window in the attic, across two window hoods, and onto the roof return.  Dan and Ralph saved the day.

 

Carpenters rescuing cat from rooflet
Categories: Found

Tagged: cat, Mika, rescue, roof

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Annals of Forensic Carpentry, Vol.2 No.2: Why the stripes?

Posted on 20 August 2013

In the good old days, when fuel was cheap and carpenters were simple, no one cared a whit about insulation and — God forbid! — energy performance.  But now that we’re out of Eden, we need to concern ourselves with more than roof framing and perfectly coped crown.  Thermal performance, rain screens, and indoor air quality are now firmly in the carpenter’s bailiwick, but can be much more abstract than a tight-fitting miter joint.  That’s why I’m always looking for instances where building science reveals itself in glorious, explicit detail.   On a recent morning, I noticed this stripey pattern in the dew on my roof.   (Ignore the leaning chimney — it’s an experiment in non-Euclidean masonry)  Years ago I might have though,…

Categories: Annals of Forensic Carpentry, Building science, Seen

Tagged: building science, closed-cell foam, insulation, roof, Thermal bridging

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