Finishing up the batt insulation today. Here is the roof above the open to below area all completed.
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 February 8th, 2015Building science taught us that air sealing of the house is more important than raw insulation value. While the spray foam seals the space from stud to stud, there’s still the gap between the studs that needs to be sealed. Here’s an example in the bathroom there the gap between the studs are now sealed with caulking. Also the gap between the bottom plate and the sub-floor is also sealed with caulking.
February 4th, 2015More batt insulation installation on the 2nd floor. Finally finished the south wall in the bathroom. So the bathroom is now completed.
February 2nd, 2015More batt insulation installation by myself over the weekend. This time concentrating on the 1st floor walls. Here we have walls on the west side.
January 28th, 2015More batt installation with my cousin today. Here on the first floor, where before, I only have the Roxul ComfortBoard installed, we have R22 Roxul ComfortBatt installed.
January 26th, 2015Since cutting the Roxul ComfortBoard is such a slow work, I decided to tackle it a bit over the weekend. So after 2 days of hard work, the north wall is done. Here’s the 1st floor on the west side. The 2×2 stud space are all filled. A few 2×6 wall cavities are also filled.
January 22nd, 2015More batt installation with my cousin today. Still working on north wall of the 2nd floor as well as the ceiling of the 2nd floor. Here’s the north wall around the stair opening completed.
January 21st, 2015Truck crew is back from Great Northern Insulation on Jan 20 to complete the rest of the missing areas. Here the area under the balcony is sprayed.
January 14th, 2015More batt insulation today. I’m doing batt installation myself with help from my cousin. The reason for putting in the sweat equity is due to the unusual way this house is insulated. Your typical contractor will want to do it quick and won’t do the work well. Insulation is pretty simple to do and so doing it myself allow the work to get done slowly and well. The north wall is a fire rated wall, so no spray foam is allowed in the wall assembly. Instead, we are cutting Roxul ComfortBoard R6 to fit in the 2×2 stud space. We then fill the 2×6 space with Roxul ComfortBatt R22.
January 13th, 2015Today, I started on doing batt insulation over the spray foam. The spray foam for the 1st & 2nd floor walls is about 1.5″ – 2″ thick just filling the 2×2 stud space. The 2×6 studded wall cavity will be filled with R22 Roxul batt. Here I started on the east side wall.
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