The lack of recent updates is due to the frenetic pace of activity around the house lately. We're exhausted.
Let's back up to where we left off. Friday morning the insulation installer returned to put film on all the walls and the ceiling. He totally sealed up the house, except for the doors - all the windows are covered with film, all the insulation is covered. The house is absolutely stifling now late in the day when it warms up. It appears the ceiling insulation will be blown in after all the drywall is attached.
In the afternoon the inspector came to look. It failed. :-( Fortunately the work that needed to be done wasn't excessive. He wanted batts installed in the area where we put up the blue sheathing on Wednesday, and sheathing and batts in the vertical walls of the tray ceiling in the master bedroom. This was really only a couple hours of work. We could have had the insulation guy come back and do this, but we were expecting the drywall guy on Monday and so we wanted this inspected again on Monday. So we didn't figure we could get the insulation guy back that fast, and with most of the necessary supplies already purchased and on site we just decided to handle it ourselves over the weekend.
Of course, we also had to trench the silt fence.
So on Sunday after church Paul rented a trencher and dug the trench (and a right PITA of a job this was, too, on the uneven ground) but we got through it. Moved and hammered the stakes. Three hours of labor, but the fence looks quite a bit better now.
Then inside to start the insulation. First we did the window in the front bedroom, which involved cutting down the film and pulling off all the wood sheathing the carpenters installed. After doing that it was time to cut up a batt and shove it into the spaces. We were glad to see that cutting insulation was quite easy, but still after installing the batts and stapling the film back up in the warm, still house Paul was totally wiped out. We finally decided he'd come back in the morning to finish up the bedroom before the inspector got there.
This turned out to be a wise idea. After a decent night's sleep Paul arrived at 7:00 to a house that had cooled nicely overnight and had the film cut, the boards and batts in place and the film stapled back up in less than two hours, including a trip to Lowe's to return some unnecessary materials and pick up a sheet of R-3 as a backing for the batts. Went home for a shower and change of clothes and back to the house at ten to wait for the inspector. He arrived at 10:30, approved of all the work and green-stickered it. :-) This was the last inspection before the final. When the final is done, it's moving day.
In the interim Paul finally reached the drywall guy, who had been out of town all weekend. He wouldn't be starting until Wednesday. It figures. Actually, though, this isn't really a bad thing. Now we can clean enough of the garage tonight to make room for the materials that will arrive on Tuesday, and we can clean the inside and get everything away from the walls so they have room to work. And maybe if we're really lucky the electric service will be installed by then so they don't have to bring a gen.
Ah well. Nice to be able to relax a little now. Pictures later.
