Moving right along

The day started well. Having taken some of my insulation materials, and used them to wall off some the great big gaping holes in the main structure of the cabin, all of a sudden the woodstove became startlingly effective. Yesterday through the rain I just continued along installing the roof radiant barrier in the addition, and cutting in the foam board wall insulation. Not really a lot to talk about, so yesterday I didn't really have anything to say.

Today however, Bob came over, feeling much recovered and we collected a lot of bags of debris and trash from all the packaging of things that have been acquired and made a run to the dump. So much better. Then we went to the building supply and picked up another load of foam board and fiberglass batts. back to cold comfort and back to work.

With two folks working, the roof radiant barrier went much faster. It's nice to have someone calling out dimensions to be cut rather than up the ladder, get dimension, go down, set the tool, back up ladder to check measurement (measure twice, cut once) back down, make the cut, back up and so on and so on. With two, this is cut down to much less effort.

We got the most difficult part of the roof done. The trusses on this part of the roof had nailers set between them for some reason. Couldn't figure out why. These aren't anywhere else in the roof. So this meant boring holes through them for airflow, and then cutting the insulation into 3 sections, placed separately. Tedious, but not too difficult. There won't been enough airflow to prevent ice dams on this part of the roof. However, it's a very shady section, so one wouldn't get much sun heating so hopefully, the tendancy to form ice dams will be reduced. The ceiling will be VERY well insulated, so I'm not expecting a lot of heat loss through the roof. IN the summer however, there should be good enough airflow to keep the roof heat from penetrating into the living space very much. And that's the primary idea.



pretty tricky to try and get a photographic representation of what's going on up there. But we're nearly done with this part. I'm anxious to actually install the insulation, but a lot has to happen first. I'll be serving all the electric through this space in conduit. So, that work really does need to be done before adding the insulation and closing the ceiling.

With that done, we turned our attention to the walls.




Again, having someone to call out dimensions and help handle materials made this bit go really easily. We got a lot done. Next up, the bathroom and utility closet/laundry, and that will be done.

Again, we're just setting these in place. I'm intending to soak down the sill plates with 'bora-care' before closing the walls. If bugs (ants in particular) make it into the sand floor, that would be 'bad'. I really don't want that to happen. The bora care I ordered days ago hasn't shown up yet. Soon as it does, we can do this for real. Looking forward to it.

So, that's it for today.