We decided to 'over insulate' this old lady of a house... with three layers of brick on the ground floor and two layers of brick on the second floor, this house was pretty well insulated by regional standards but...
I'm thinking:
- the cost of energy is not going down...
- My ability to make more money every year may not be going up...
- It is waste-feul to heat and cool that much space thoughtlessly...
We spend alot of time looking at the different options : fiberglass batts; foam of various kinds; and blown insulation of various kinds and ended up choosing a totally green option...
We are using a cellulose blown in insulation made entirely of recycled material (old news papers... who says there's no good news?) They blow it out of this giant truck
and they run out big hoses that look like giant vacuum cleaner hoses... now this is neat... while one guy is shooting the material against the wall, the other guy is sucking up the stuff that falls down and it gets instantly recycled!Trent is putting it in here...
and his brother in law is sucking it up here...
It was very much like a rich New England snow at midnight-- everywhere bits were flying, and the silence was deep and comforting...
at the end, because everything is hosed up during the installation, there is very little waste and the material has packed itself around all of the plumbing and the electrical... it looks like this just before we hang the sheetrock...
Suddenly the house has become quiet. It has become softer. It is changing from the construction zone into the home we are visualizing... ooh!
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