Slow, but at least we are making progress

So how much have we accomplished on our "to do" list so far?  Exactly, nothing :-)  I got about half of the doctor stuff done and we had an opening yesterday so Jan and I attacked the Fantastic Vent fan replacement first.  We were surprised to find the company didn't just send us more parts for our problem, they sent an entire new unit, and that is for a 10 year old fan!  Wow, wish more companies were this good.  Good news, bad news, that prompted us to completely replace the fan, dig out caulking, clean it all up, reinstall the new fan, do the wiring, etc.  

Old one coming out

Hey, there's a big hole in our roof!

I was going to use a sealant adhesive, but when we pulled the old unit out, we found Monaco had used a putty tape which obviously sealed it well as we never had a leak and best of all facilitated an easy removal from the roof.  Figured if the first one lasted 10 years with no problem, we'd install the new one the same way.

The new one ready to be installed

Putting down the putty tape

The putty revealed

 We got it all in and caulked around the base and the screw heads and today I will install Eternabond which is a roof sealing tape that adheres and seals the entire unit and looks much better and cleaner than caulk.  We wanted the caulk to dry completely before installing the tape. 

All in, ready for the screws and the tape outline you can see
on the roof is the Eternabond tape that was there.
The new tape will go right over the top, and with this tape,
once down it stays down!

This one even has its own fancy remote

So hopefully with this unexpected job out of the way, I will soon be sharing our successful completion of our other projects.