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Day 5 - installing staging

Jul 19, 2006. Time Invested today:
0:45 Get the staging and setting it up.
The day before installing the collectors, my neighbor John Rogers (in the red shirt) came by to look over the equipment and discuss installation strategy.  He is an experienced home builder, and he helped convince me that using ladders would be trouble.  So we went over to his place and got his fancy aluminum staging equipment and put it up in preparation for the next day.  This is very cool equipment and will definitely make the job much simpler!

John quickly mounted the support brackets to my window frames with 1/4" lag screws while I steadied the ladder and handed him tools.  That's me in the white shirt!  Since the platform remains several inches from the wall we will be able to lift the collectors up between the staging and the wall.   This will really make the job easier, and having a work platform while attaching the mounts and finalizing the plumbing will be very helpful!

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