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Dirty Work

Removing insulation and hearing your boiler kick on is not usually a good thing. Ok after spending the day in the attic I don't have a whole lot to show for my work.

I still have roughly 2 to 3 more hours in the attic before I can even start on removing stuff from the knee-wall area. I packaged roughly 28 bags full of various old insulation today. This almost entirely fills the little green-house :-)
(I really can't wait untill I get the job box in April)

While covered in filth and yuck and stuffing bags with insulation, I was alwase thinking of "how I am going to go about re-insulating". My main goal here is to correct the non-air flow problem between the kneewall and the upper attic space. I'm thinking I need to use a system of joined baffels to guarantee the open air space between the two areas. Under the baffels I am thinking of using double foil faced ridgid insulation, if that exists. If not I guess I will make do with single faced. For the actual attic space floor I would like the result to be a 30+ R value using a combination of faced and un-faced batt material.