Ebates Coupons and Cash Back My 1905 Kansas Victorian: We don't need no stinkin' insulation

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

We don't need no stinkin' insulation

We told Rachel that we would redecorate her bedroom for her birthday. She thought that meant a new bedspread and some paint. Little did she know! We have now removed all the lath and plaster from her walls and the acoustical panels (yuck, yuck, yuck!) from her ceiling. Her room started like this.
It was a dark maroon with a border around the top that had a baseball theme. It had kind of filmy, dark maroon curtains. The carpet is a browny-orange.

Since we started the remodel, her room looks like this.
Walls:

The amount of insulation you see is the amount of insulation we have. In other words, absolutely none. Not one tiny iota of insulation. Therefore, we are now the proud owners of seven rolls of insulation all primed to go into these walls. We also bought several great cans of Great Stuff to fill the huge amounts of gaps in the walls. The construction looks very solid and straight so that is nice to see but I can't wait to see what insulation is going to do to the temperature and noise in her room.

Ceiling:

We will be drywalling the walls and ceiling. The ceiling was dropped just enough to run the electrical wires. They could have easily been run through the attic but they chose to fur down the ceiling enough to run them and then put up the cardboard acoustical panels. They ruined the plaster ceiling in the process. We would much prefer to have kept and repaired the plaster. The complete lack of insulation and the ruined ceiling made that impossible.

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