Insulation, Step 2

With nothing on our agenda today, we decided to try our hand at insulating the main floor bedroom. A few weeks ago Don drilled 3-inch holes in the walls, two holes between each stud. This morning we rented an "attiCat" Owens Corning blow-in insulation machine and went to work. It is pretty nifty. You put a bail of insulation in a big hopper. Rotating paddles break up the bail, and a blower adds air and moves it through a long hose into the room, delivering the fluffed-up insulation to a hole. It took some doing to minimize the amount of insulation that escaped into the room, but the work itself was easy and fast. Sami fed the machine and Don was at the end of the hose.The cleanup took as long as the insulating. We declare it is an easy DIY project. Now we have 38 holes to plug, mud, sand and finish. Step, by step; that's the reality of the remodel.