Interior insulation / soundproofing day 4

Finally finished all the soundproofing for interior walls. Here’s the 1st floor powder room wall that wasn’t 100% finished last time.

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Interior insulation / soundproofing day 3

Continue to install insulation for the basement. Here the wall between the laundry room and mechanical room is now finally finished.

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Electrical clean up

Finished up all the needed plastic sheets for the interior soundproofing.

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Interior insulation / soundproofing day 2

Continue to put up the plastic sheet needed to hold the Roxual Safe’n’Sound in place all around the interior wall. We are only putting the plastic sheet on a single side to avoid trapping moisture inside the wall. Here’s the first floor powder room.

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Interior insulation / soundproofing

Finished up the rest of the resilient channel installation and we started on interior insulation / soundproofing today. For the computer room because it will maintain a lower temperature, we decided to use Roxual R22 insulation on the interior walls around the computer room.

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Vapour barrier day 2

Finishing up the vapour barriers. Here on the first floor the bottom sections are all completed.

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Vapour barrier

Now we are finishing up all the vapour barriers. We are using  CertainTeed MemBrain which adapt its permeability depending on the climatic conditions. This is to avoid trapped moisture inside the wall which can happen if you use traditional 6 mil polyethylene vapour barrier.

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Batt insulation day 10

Finishing up the batt insulation today. Here is the roof above the open to below area all completed.

Air sealing

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Air sealing

Building 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.

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Batt insulation day 9

More batt insulation installation on the 2nd floor.

Finally finished the south wall in the bathroom. So the bathroom is now completed.

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