7.13.2017

 

As in true Camelot fashion, it rained most of last night and early this morning.  The rain ushered in some welcome much cooler air along with it.  Which meant that it was a perfect day for insulation (if there's such a thing - probably not in Jim's eyes right now!)

This morning he worked on more details - he drilled holes in valley rafters and went through another can of spray foam.  Then he started cutting pieces for the kitchen wall.

 

However, it was also a good errand day.  So he took the opportunity at lunch to go to Drywall Center to pick up more rigid foam board and insulation.  Then he went to a lumber mill - it's actually owned by the father of one of our landlords.  Jim's been wanting to check it out for awhile.  He was looking for big timbers that he can use to make the knee braces for the overhang.  His bounty...

 



 

You can see how big these timbers are...

 

 

Carrying them into the shop...

 



 

 

But then it was back to insulation.  I  started combing the different kind of loose insulation Jim had bought - this is cellulose instead of fiberglass.  Then Jim would take the pails and put them in the area behind the rigid foam board at the base of these knee walls.

 

He went down to the shop and quickly made this pushing tool to help him get the insulation shoved back where he wanted it - it really worked well.  We got all of this area done and an area started behind the closet in the master bedroom.  We'll have to pick up a couple more bundles of this insulation to continue.

Then Jim went back to batts...he got the lower wall sections done and started on the valley area.

These top ones are tough - Jim could get this corner one in but still had to go up into the attic to make sure it was positioned correctly.  All the other ones, he had to start in the attic and drop the batt into place from above.  As you can imagine, it was a lot of up and down the ladder and crawling through the attic.

Finishing up the last section in this area!

 

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