I got a cousin, great in woods can tell you north south easiest way here and there. once stayed at friends house in my home town 1 and half blocks from parents house... 200 yards away.... to a house he had been to dozens of times... in a city less than square mile no idea how to get there
Lol, You guys and gals went from insulation to getting lost....Get back on insulation...One of my favorite subjects....
my bad this one my fault... me personally trying to get r 50 in 10 inches of space but spray foam 10 inches thick over 1400 square feet is
Don't feel bad cause I am trying to super insulate trailer walls that are only maybe 3" thick....I am on a mission...
Dang, I swear to goodness that you are in my house - I had an electrician come out last fall to replace the exact same situation - and that is in the basement where it is accessible. I can hardly wait until I take out the main floor ceilings (and those are light/fan combos in every room - shudder).
Well, if you are you ain't getting anything done very fast (from what I've observed in this dump), so the cats are going to have to start cracking the whip
Finally getting some more work done thanks to a big helping hand from my good friend. I've been helping him work through some difficult times. We're good friends so it's not something you keep score on. But out of the goodness of his heart he is going to install my back door for me! He's a contractor by trade so it's second nature for him. I did take off a little early from work so I could give him a head start. I pulled the old window out before he came over. It was amazing to see just how leaky the old window was. I built the new header and got it installed. He's going to work on the door over the weekend, while I head home. Tomorrow we are taking down an elm and an ash in the back yard.
Hold on, you know stuffing insulation and packing it tight makes it entirely useless right?????!!!!????
Not really, though widely believed. The actual R-value per inch increases with compression, so "overstuffing" a bay with fiberglass can result in better R-values for the installation. For example, stuffing R-21 into a 3 1/2 inch bay results in R-15, which is better than the standard R-11 - R-13 insulation made for that cavity. It might be hard to get all that in, but it does show that overstuffing actually improves overall insulation (R) values. See attached.
Overstuffing may reduce the rated R-value of that particular insulation, but it is not "useless" and can be better in the long run than the suggested insulation for the cavity type (as shown in the charts posted by bushpilot ).
I used r11 fiberglass in real 2*4 walls, and then on to of that r7 pink insulation, should put me around r 17-18. Very little "stuffing"
