Insulation

When we first moved into this house about 4 1/2 years ago, there wasn't an ounce of insulation in the entire house. Well, except for a pile of vermiculite ore insulation (likely laced with some tasty asbestos) in a pile in the attic above our bedroom. It was COLD. You could see the imprint of your foot on our wood floors during the winter b/c of condensation. The windows would flap back and forth, and I would shiver for about 3 minutes uncontrollably in bed before even being able to think about falling asleep.

We've taken some drastic measures folks. Drastic.

A few years back we had someone insulate the crawlspace. Now, during this major remodel, we replaced all the windows (no more flapping in the wind!) and put insulation into the exterior walls. Remember this?

The last thing we needed to do to make our house more comfortable was insulate the new addition and attic. We chose to go with spray foam insulation, which is some pretty crazy stuff.

We hired local Spray Foam Insulators to do the job, and they were great. We felt pretty bad for the guy that was doing the spray foaming because it was an unseasonably warm 80+ degrees in mid-march and he was having to spray foam that was 140 degrees in our hot little attic...with a jump suit on the whole time. By the end, he had totally soaked that jump suit through.

And here's a peek at our newly spray-foamed space:

We also put some insulation in the floors to help reduce noise between the upstairs and downstairs. You can see that they didn't shave it level towards the bottom of the roof because knee walls will be covering up that space.

Once that was done, we were able to start putting down subfloor.

In one of the next posts I'll show you the new floor along with our newly framed rooms!