Let me fill you in....we started the day early, but by the time we were ready to leave, the little boys were up and starting their day.
Not for the faint of heart, if you gross out easily, start scrolling NOW!
Gideon thought it was quite entertaining.
Isn't my big brother funny?!
This morning was quite cool. Dan wanted to get the work in the attic done first thing before it got to "cooking" up there.
Guess what he wanted me to help him do!?
Take the insulation out and put it down a floor.
Well, here's the beginning of the process.
The all important mask
Get ladder in place
Once he got up there, he started handing me 8 and 9 ft. long pieces of insulation batting. It is one icky job! I didn't have a mask on at first. It didn't take long to realize it was a much needed item for that job. When I started coughing, I put on the mask. It went somewhat better after that. But there was so much up there I filled the first bedroom, started laying it in the hallway/landing area, then put it in the master bedroom. The problem was that once you go over 3-4 high, the pile starts to topple. So I couldn't stack it very high....you'll see in the first bedroom I did. I leaned one stack against another.
First bedroom
Landing area
Master bedroom
He descends from above
Once completed, he said we needed to do something with the duct work in the basement and needed my help. We (he!) took apart the venting and set them aside to use later.
What came out
Where they came from
While taking the last piece out, a wad of "stuff" fell out almost on our heads. We sifted through it and here is what was in it.
There was a folded up piece of paper - we used to call them footballs and play on our desks.
Other junk
Then we moved on to the kitchen corner. He jacked it up and put some stability under it.
He held the screw up for the camera to show the length of it, but it looks like he's ready to poke it into his eye, doesn't it?
Going into the floor
Flooring going back down, now over a sturdy floor!
Then, when we were done with that, we decided to go ahead and take the back door out and put in a header. There was none there....
Screen off, door is next
Both gone
Before we started the door, we had to remove the insulation that was on that wall. There was batting insulation, blown in stuff that had detiorated badly and the really old stuff - newpaper! We unwadded it to see if it was very old. You won't believe the year on it! Check this out....kinda blurry, but you can read it...if not click on it to enlarge it.
Some other interesting pages
Door's header put in correctly
Dan happy that it's done!
Then we had some visitors!
Pat and Hank stopped to see how we were progressing
While we were talking, Dan received a phone call....not sure why I took that pic!
It was Mindi. She was stranded with the three kids in the van. So I quick drove over and rescued them. Who wouldn't want to rescue those little faces??
They don't look any too happy though, do they?
They are all home safe and sound though.
Tomorrow we are back at it. We'll probably tackle the plaster again....what we were going to do today but got a bit sidetracked!
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