Well, it’s the dead of winter, and I’m sure everyone is asking the obvious question:
Did Mrs. Mecomber’s insulation she installed in her new living room work?
I can proclaim– very confidently and very emphatically that… I don’t know.
People, it’s just one room. One room in a sea of ten other freezing cold rooms. I really packed the living room with insulation, too. I did everything by the book, and then some. I sealed all the corners– every little crevice– with that expanding foam. I stapled the kraft-papered pink insulation rolls tightly. I made neat little strips with a razor blade where the electrical wires and boxes went (never cram your insulation in– allow it to fill gaps, and slice the insulation when it meets with impediments line electrical wiring, to avoid air pockets). I even stapled sheets of 6mil plastic on top of the kraft-paper insulation.
This was really only step one. See, I have no door and window trim up yet, so those gaps provide for leaking air. I also have several holes in the plaster walls elsewhere in the house, because I haven’t completed my electrical wiring for the house yet (I’m about 1/2 done). And then there are those 100-year old windows They allow more air to pass in and out than a pair of bellows. They are quite leaky. All the glazing has deteriorated from the panes, too. They are in sorry shape.
So, has my uber-insulation worked? I think so. I mean, how could it not? It’s just the rest of the house that’s freezing cold. I really won’t see a different in our heating bills until the rest of the house is buttoned up. That could take a while.
January 29, 2008
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