Insulate

We celebrated our independence this weekend by working on our home. Yehaw! We drilled a few holes in the walls...

...and found this: Yeah, that's the foundation you see down there. I don't think the R-value of cobwebs is very high.

This bimetal holesaw cost $15 and cut 15 holes before it looked like this. Note the lack of teeth.

Then I got this saw that was made for cutting through sheetrock or tile or whatever. Much faster, and much more cost-effective!

This is the bulkiest load my truck has yet endured. I had built the rack earlier this week to haul canoes, and it worked perfect for containing the insulation and blower from Home Depot.

Here's Sarah's work station.

She was very good at her job, keeping things rolling for me. She kept the hose fed and controlled the flow. We used walkie-talkies to communicate. I don't know how we would have done it without them!

Here's Caitin's room during the work. We did her room first, which displaced her for sleeping Friday night.

Note the dust particles the camera picked up. We wore dust masks the whole time.

It's a good thing Sarah insisted on covering the contents of each room. There was a big mess when we were done.

Thank goodness for movies and babysitters. The girls tolerated the project pretty well, and now Caitin wants to sleep on the air matress every night.

Now we're in the process of plugging and repairing all the holes. 115 of them. Gonna be busy this week!