House Insulation

The best investment one can make is by insulating the house and reducing their energy use. The payback is immediate and continues forever!

January 4 2011

the second window is finished and has worked well for the past little while..

	November 30, 2010 Mat is putting a double wall in the office , so that means another layer of insulation and drywall overtop of the first layer. Here's Sean doing some wireing.
	Here's the before shot......
	And the after shot (this is one of the only times that we remembered to take before and after shots ) !!!
	My job was to measure and cut the drywall ..

	November 23, 2010 The insulation around the gas heater .. And the walls are painted thier second coat and the heat registers are put in.
	The new double window in the front room , put in within 5 minutes of it being made !! ..

November 16 , 2010

This window has plexiglass over the other glass because plexiglass doesnt conduct the cold asmuch.

The insulation is done aroun this window, and the window has been cut out again , making it a really deep window .

	November 9, 2010 The fire place in the living room .
	Here's a view from the outside . See the chimmney is torn down and the dog house built.
	The wall's are ready to be sanded and painted ..

November 2, 2010

Insulating in the front-room ,coming along a little .

October 19 , 2010

Mat is insulating then front room . He's going to put stubs on , then insulation and finally, drywall.

	The second floor double ceiling drywall just sanded.
	Will Arlow with his special drywall sanding hat.

January 19, 2010

Will Arlow has made progress in finishing the drywall upstairs.

Now for the drywall compound..... and then that awful sanding.

Oh, and there he is !!!

Updated by Clare

	January 12, 2010 Here is a picture of the double ceiling in the upstairs hall that Will Arlow is working on. Updated by Clare
	Finally some drywall!
	8 mil vapour barrier stapled on.
	The roxul R22 insulation is put in. I would prefer using a natual fiber... I need to do more research on this for a future use.
	The ceiling is installed in the hangars.
	The Walls have a 2x4 nailed up onto the hidden wall studs and then hangars put on them.

In order to get things right in the attic we needed vent holes drilled by Isaac.... working in the attic is a very hot miserable job.... so we only work about an hour there in the early morning hours.
The drywall being installed
Jake putting up the vapour barrier
The insulation installed.
After taking out the old insulation we put in 6 inch R22 on the outside wall and then started construction of the inside wall. It will also have 6 inches of insulation.
Since I really can't run a vacuum cleaner very long the carpet had to go! And look at that nice hardwood floors underneath!
I had replaced the windows last fall and I had to then destroy the wall paper.