Comments on: Still making progress

By: Family room upgrades » Farm Folly

Family room upgrades » Farm Folly — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:48:22 +0000

[...] studs, and band joist insulation were added. It’s the exact same thing that we did to the opposite upstairs end wall. You can click on the link for more details about why we did [...]

By: Sealing the master bedroom » Farm Folly

Sealing the master bedroom » Farm Folly — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:15:39 +0000

[...] last post about our progress in super insulating the master bedroom left us with the first layer of R13 fiberglass insulation and the end wall sheathed in OSB as a [...]

By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:22:38 +0000

House stuff does seem slow doesn’t it? Still, you’ve got a lot done!

By: lee

lee — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:35:57 +0000

Lynn – Yes, after hiring out the roofing and some structural work, it’s amazing how much slower things progress when it all depends on you. It’s almost counter-motivational, as illogical as that seems.

Benita – Oregon is has regular small earthquakes and a small chance of some very large earthquakes. The state government started retrofitting the bridges on the I-5 corridor several years ago because none of them met code requirements for earthquakes. Oregon and Washington are on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which produces 8.0 to 9.0 earthquakes every 200 to 1000 years. Geological evidence suggests the last major earthquake occurred about 300 years ago (written records only go back to 1790).

Ron – Thanks. My experience with fiberglass so far is limited to the knee walls and that end wall. The original framing has randomly spaced studs, so a lot of the batts had to be trimmed length-wise to fit without bulging. Very itchy work.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:10:21 +0000

It looks like you guys did an awesome job of installing that fiberglass. Done right, it works well. But you can’t hire that kind of quality.

Ron

By: Benita

Benita — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:47:30 +0000

So, do you have many earthquakes there?

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:22:47 +0000

Hey, it’s getting there! Isn’t it tough to live in the house as you are renovating it? That is my biggest challenge. We are moving very slowly on the interior house work, much slower than anticipated…