Insulation and Other Stuff

 I started on insulating the walls Monday. Hal wanted to use a mineral wool batt by Owens Corning, but it's hard to get, he bought one pallet a couple weeks ago and then I ordered the last 2 available the other day. As it's looking like it's not going to be available in the near future, we'll have to finish using regular old pink fiberglass. The mineral wool has a better R value (R15 for each 4 inch batt vs 13/15.), and has better resistance to mildew, though it is pricier. I suspect the stupid pandemic has its hand in this insulation shortage, but what can one do?

So far I've gotten 2 eight inch walls finished with mineral wool, and added the remaining few pieces to other walls. There are 2 layers of mineral wool in these walls, two 4 inch thick batts.

Guest Bedroom wall

3rd bedroom wall

Those short 2 x 4's in the middle were requested by the drywaller because he needs blocking at the 54" level due to our non standard 9' 6" walls.

Now that I am out of mineral wool, I started on the garage today using faced R19 fiberglass. This 6 inch wall is between the utility room and the vehicle portion of the garage. 

The utility room side

Other tidbits; Hal has run speaker wire in the 4th bedroom, aka the TV/media room as well as some in the living room where I intend to mainly use it for music. I will have to purchase new speakers for that room.

Another fairly big tidbit, the 2 septic tanks were placed last Friday. Now we just need the inspector to come back for a 3rd time to approve a different location for the drain field, as the septic guy thinks it is a better location than the first 2. But here they are.

I will try to post more news tomorrow. Time for bed now, I have another day of insulation work coming and it's miserable work in the heat.