All posts by

Enjoy! View this post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog for WordPress.

Here's Steve rocking the high-density cellulose in tight quarters. We capped it with some blocks of Thermax sealed at the perimeter and blew another 8" of cellulose over top. View this post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog for WordPress.

Brutal! Just retrofit a 30' x 15' crawlspace with less than a foot of clearance from the ground to the joists. I don't like spray foam much at all, but in severely confined work areas there aren't a lot of alternatives. As the saying goes, 'you retrofit the houses you have, not the houses you might want or wish to […]

Attic temperatures on Monday and Tuesday were over 130F. This made me uncomfortable and sweaty. But our youngest crew members seemed to suffer the worst. Here's one of them modeling our 2 latest experiments in keeping cool – the ice-water filled camelbak and the ice vest. The ice vest seems the most promising so far. Get back in the attic […]

For some reason we're running across a ton of short vaulted section of roof accessible from the main attic flat. Usually about 2' . Here's Steve stuffing a cathedral accuvent in the vault and dense-packing with cellulose. Without real access to the exterior plate this is probably the least invasive technique for reducing (the substantial) air leakage at this point. […]