Insulation "Fest" 2013

Big island weekend. It was officially Island Fest on Kelleys and the whole downtown was set-up with all kinds of food and vendors, etc. Saturday night included an awesome fireworks display that was really a great show, very cool.

After not going up to the island in nearly a month, I had a lot of stuff to do in a short window. Not to mention it was brutally hot and humid.

I had to stop at Menard's on the way to load up with over-priced insulation. The picture below does not really do this justice, because although is looks like a normal load, the Menard's guy had to use a fork lift to get this stuff in the truck. This is 4 packages of 11 - 4 ft batts all bundled together on top.

Insulation load #1 - boring

The Arnold's Food Truck made its debut for Island Fest Weekend. They served up all kinds of tasty Asian specialities all weekend long. If the Food Truck is rockin', please come a knockin'!

Good Eats Food Truck - Chris and Kiki Arnold

 

Saturday night, the Caddyshack featured Almost Famous from the westside of Cleveland. They packed the house, kicked some serious ass and had the crowd acting up in typical July fashion. Brad showed up to party on Saturday and we closed out the Caddyshack.

 



"Almost Famous" - live at the Caddy Shack

Probably the worst job so far with the cottage, is installing attic insulation. The material is so itchy, cumbersome, and it's consistently over 100 deg. But by far, beyond the heat and itch, the worst thing about it, is that you CAN'T get at the area you need to work on. Whatever technique you try to use to out think the insulation, nothing works, and you just deal with it sucking bad.

1st and foremost, I had to wrap the supply duct work because running the a/c in super hot/humid conditions causes the duct work to sweat and drip. I ran the a/c for hours on end starting on Friday evening and was surprised by the amount of dripping condensation on Saturday morning. Thankfully, I wrapped 75% on Friday night. The trick is, I had to turn off the a/c, towel off the wet duct work, and finish the wrap job as fast as possible while battleling the impending heat and humidity.

Finally, I wasn't able to capture a photo, I layed down over 500 sqft of R-30 insulation on top of the drywall ceilings in all of the 4 bedrooms.

Supply duct work wrapped with insulation

 

Below are some photos of the main bath room. Notice the sun tunnel installed in the ceiling. This is a great solution to bring in natural light in a small room with no windows. Thanks to Albert Hobar for mudding up this room and others when their family stayed at the cottage last week.



Main bath room sun tunnel and mud 

Sunday, completely burned out from insulation, I started drywalling the utility room.

The tankless water heater and pex manifold drywalled

Planning to do a ton of work next weekend. More to come...