Great Stuff!

We've been slowly recreating Rachel's room after gutting it. Doug has been insulating and his new best friend is "Great Stuff," that expanding foam insulation. He has filled every single little gap he can find with the stuff.

I think he has used about 10 cans in her room but I don't believe that we will have to worry about drafts. He is putting up R-13 fiberglass batting in the stud bays. After filling the stud bays with batting he will be putting up a plastic vapor barriar because there isn't any on the outside.


He is also going to blow insulation into the walls of the room below (the living room) while these walls are still open. In a few years we will be ripping those walls out and putting in batting but for the few years until then, he wants some semblance of insulation in the walls.

On Saturday, Doug and one of our elders, Bill, were able to get the sheetrock for the ceiling up and start to make it look like a room again. They rented a sheetrock lift which is the only way to go for putting sheetrock on a ceiling. It's starting to look great!