Insulation Prep

And now we come to October's Bright Blue Weather

This particular time we made big leaps of progress on the house.

Careful measurements and pictures were taken of every wall in the house, so we could record wiring and pipe placement. I know we had done this before but we kept doing it until our picture files were full of ugly pictures like this:

And guess what? It's never enough. No, there is always that one spot that was just out of the camera that is THE spot that you need to find out about months later. We should have done those fancy "virtual tour" photographs that go round the room. 

After measuring, the place was all cleaned up for the insulation guys. 

I always say "it will never be this clean again." 

The morning of the insulation delivery, we went up to the house and wrote all over the walls. This was the only chance my children had at graffiti. 

The truck arrived, the noise started, the crew stayed all day.

 Of course we spent a l-o-n-g time researching this part of the housebuilding because we didn't want to chemicals to be encased in the walls, we didn't want ineffective insulation and we wanted to have stuff that would last. So no foam made entirely of chemicals, no iffy batt insulation with gaps, nothing that would settle in a short time. In the end, we chose a "Blown-in-Blanket" system. The crew went in and stapled something that looked like interfacing to the studs, Then they cut little holes in the cloth and blew in fiberglass wool in each section. The fiberglass had some sort of sticky element (something approved by picky people like us, of course) to it that keeps it from settling.

We were quite happy with our choice. Next post will be the "after" photos!