Hot gutter, yikes!

[John Kogel]

The cheap voltage sniffer y'all get huffy about sometimes was my little friend this week.

On my walk around the house I saw this - SEC's pulled so zinging tight they're lifting the gutter. On the deck, opposite side of the house, continuous gutter, my sniffer was going wild. Set my ladder up on the deck as a stepladder and stepped over onto the roof. I wasn't grounded up there, but would have been with my long ladder planted on the ground. Yikes.

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Today, I had this old mobile home bath fan. Somebody's removed the fan and left the wires dangling inside the housing. With the fan switch on, my sniffer went nuts. Now I'm trying to imagine Billy Bob taking showers under this thing, 7 foot ceiling. Yikes again.

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