Ceiling and Insulation

It's been a long day.

Mr took the day off of work to 

work.

He's exhausted, but in very good spirits because of all that we got done today.

I say we, but the truth is I only put in about four hours of labor on our bungalow 

today due to distractions beyond my control.

The ceiling is finally down and out of the house.

And so is the insulation.

Man, oh man, insulation is nasty, nasty stuff.

Sitting directly on top of the plaster & button-board ceiling was 

 a three inch thick layer of loose, blown in 'rock wool' insulation
with R13 batt insulation on top of that.

What a stinkin' HUGE mess when that all came tumbling down!

Here are a few pics...

Mr stomping the ceiling down between the joists.

See what I mean? 

Messy, messy, messy!

As it turns out, I'm not much use when it comes to demolition, but I rock at cleaning up.

Mr constantly reminds me that that is an extremely important contribution.

Yeah, I suppose.

I gotta say though that I love that Tannon came by and helped out for a while.

THANKS, Tan!

Snow shovels...

not just for snow shovelin', ya know.

I'll tell you somethin' right now...

We were itchin' and scratchin' like a bunch of tick and flea infested hound dogs

what with all that insulation and perspiration.

Eeewww.

We're glad that nasty job is done.

Tomorrow...

the rest of the roof will come down.

Oh, and...

our engineer stopped by today for his 'on-site' inspection.

He says we're good to go on our plans!!

WAH-HOOO

I must mention too that we believe that this engineer is nothing short of a blessing.
Yes, indeed, we pray about things like that.

He is charging us less than 1/3 of what other engineers have quoted us 

AND

he'll get us all set in less than two weeks!

We were told by other firms that we would be waiting no less that six.

The power company also came by to go over details with us.

They had some good news and some not-so-good news.

I believe that's called 'balancing out' or 'compromise' or something like that.

And when I get around to it,

I'll fill you in on our awesome, surprise visitor on July 4th.

G'night, ever'body.