Now to remove this!

The next step (before the plasterers come in) will be to remove this door!

Demo work! Now I can use my Sawzall!

Insulation Pics

Here are some pictures of the addition with most of the insulation finished. We are getting very close to having walls. Oh, and I've been heating the space now!

Looking East.

And south

South (into the bathroom).

looking south west (into the family room). That wall will be where the TV goes.

Spray Foam!

I got spray in foam from tigerfoam.com and this is what it looks like between the rafters.

Close up. I'll cover this with fiberglass insulation.

Here is teh laundry room. There are two strips that I still haven't put fiberglass insulation over the foam because I ran out.

Spray in foam done.

Well, I purchased some spray in foam from tigerfoam.com and I managed to get a hour free to spray this stuff up there. So here's the story. First of all you need to get this stuff to about 80 degrees. So I set up a shelf over a space heater and left it there for a while. I used my pipe theremometers (taped to the outside of the tanks) to tell if I was getting close to 80 degrees. Then I cleared out the space under the cathedral cieling area that I am spraying. You can only stop for a couple seconds at a time without getting a new nossle so I planned to go right through without stopping. After everything was set I started spraying and realized I forgot to put gloves on... I HIGHLY recomend remembering to put on gloves. I also recomend that you not use the "wide agle" nosle. The wide angle nosle made the stuff go everywhere! Including my hands that had no gloves because I didn't want to stop! Anyway, I eventually did stop to get gloves and change nosles and I tried the "cone" nosle - much better. It takes longer to cover an area, but it is easier to control where the stuff goes. I would take some pictures, but the camera is nowhere to be found so I'll probably be covering it all up tomorrow. I did temporaroly install the thermostat and the addition is now officially heated.

Insulation update

Well, hopefully this fall will see lots of changes to the addition. As of today, all the rough plumbing is finished and inspected, all the electrical is finished and inspected, and the framing was also inspected. So this means that I can start insulating! There is a lot more to this than I originally thought though and it makes me wish we had asked for 2x6 construction. OH well.

So there are four areas that I need to insulate:

1) The second floor ceiling. The ceiling is made with 2X8 lumber so R30 fiberglass bat insulation is bigger than the joists, but I don't really care. I'm going to put in R30 fiberglass bat insulation and then R30 on top of that!

2) The "cathedral" ceilings on the second floor are made with 2x6 lumber so the only way to get close to R30 is to use spray in foam or the Styrofoam boards that they sell. I thought that I would have to put ventilation behind the insulation on the cathedral ceiling but the inspector told me that if I used spray in foam (closed cell) that I could skip it. That's good because it means one more inch of insulation in there!

3) Second floor walls. R13.

4) Garage ceiling. Well, this is also 2X8 joists so I can't go with R30 fiberglass bat insulation. This is where the radiant heat is so it needs a lot of insulation. First I put the reflective paper up (today) and then I'll get R30C. That is made for cathedral ceilings - it fits in a 2x10 space so it will be compressed a bit, but the building inspector told me to go with it so it better pass.

Once this is done we need one last inspection before we can tear down the door, put up the walls, and start finishing the thing up!!

Rough framing inspection done!

I was worried a little about the rough framing inspection because I wasn't sure I had drilled the holes for the radiant floor perfectly, but I guess it was good enough.

OK, well, only one more inspection (insulation) to go before we can close it all up and start the finish work.

Electrical Inspection Complete!

Well, I finally had to hire an electrician to come in and look at my work and tell me what I did wrong. They then came back after I had fixed the issues and pulled the permit in their name. But all that matters is that the inspector came and it all passed! Yippeeee. Anyway, now I can worry about the rough framing inspection.