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[Beer can]

@vehve I've torn out older insulation a few times that was yellow. Our back room added on to the house in the '70s as a attached garage had yellow, super itchy too, new stuff isn't. Rest of house is nasty looking blowed in. Doubt it had any insulation originally, pre 1910. I think you find mostly pink now days cause the most popular brand uses the pink panther cartoon character for their advertising.

 

[Beer can]

A lot of contractors here are going more with a expanding spray foam.

They sell a kit so you can do it yourself, but I don't know, I make a mess just with the little cans.

 

[vehve]

PU foam is great for doors and windows, but the foil backed panels would be my preference for walls and such.

 

[Alaskan]

So V... You are saying that moss, used as insulation creates a watertight seal?


Crazy.


I have seen houses with wood siding, then a few layers of flat newspaper, then wallpaper... Walla... Insulated.



Of course log houses have zero insulation... Moss, or mud, or dirt stuck in any cracks. Most log homes up here are fit well enough that they do not need chinking.


In my new addition they used a BLOW in insulation, not that spray stuff Beer showed.

 

[vehve]

Al, this was a log frame, don't know what had happened to it, but they basically had a indoor swamp on the second floor.

Our's is the blow stuff too, not expanding foam.

 

[Amberjem]

Heel low:

Hey thar! Just finished a whirlwind of a three day dog showing event. Big senior female puppy show weekend.

My son and I showed the puppies--been outta the ring for like a dozen years but first day on the Friday, Emmy and I took Best of Breed, Best of Winners, and Best Puppy in Breed (three pups entered with one professional handler shown male). I forget how the Canadian Kennel Club point scoring system works and was told at the Show Desk that Emmy had two points but now see she is listed as having three points and is the top eigth Australian Cattle Dog here in Canada. So I am no wiser and even more confused. I do believe that a dog needs one major (looks like Emmest got that on the Friday--yee haw) and a total of ten points to receive a Conformation Championship under CKC rules.

Best of Breed, Best of Winners and Best Puppy in Breed!!!!!!!
Her first time showing...YAH to puppers Emmy!​

Saturday, my son and Lacy were on fire and took Best Opposite under a US judge...being the "Mom" in this equation, I am ever so proud to see Emmy and I get beat up by such good "in house" competition!

No photos yet of red speckled girl Lacy as I left my camera at home all weekend. My SIL (the professional photographer) showed up on the Sunday but she's got called to work so still waiting on those pics she took. I'll post those to my Pear-A-Dice thread once I receive them.

Now I can ramp up and get started on all those "have to wait until AFTER the dog show" things on the roster, eh.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

AWESOME grats!!Q!Q

 

[Beer can]

Our house old nasty looking shredded blown in insulation. When we gutted the kitchen walls, replaced nasty stuff with the 'pink' stuff, some spots had no insulation where there was a cross board. Looked like they just drilled two inch holes on the top from the outside. Wall stud distances random. Inside walls no studs, thick wide planks.
Out side walls in kitchen, old paneling, few layers of wallpaper, lath and plaster with horse hair holding it together, many newspapers here and there, many in good shape we kept 1908-30s, nasty blown in insulation. Bare outside wall still warm even though below zero outside? Found out why when I replaced windows. Ruff cut tongue and groove pine, layer of asphalt shingles like what would be on a roof, half inch thick black 'masonite' looks like compressed shredded cardboard,sheets i believe, then something similar for siding,laid up like siding painted, but a little thiner and harder, called 'masonite' also. Got to be two inches thick all together. Wife wants living room done next this summer, layers of wallpaper on lathe and plaster, will not let me gut it, just wants sheetrock put over...ohh well, walls ain't cold, old electric hasn't burned the house down yet, would be LOTS easier, don't plan on living here forever anyway...

 

[Amberjem]

Our house old nasty looking shredded blown in insulation. When we gutted the kitchen walls, replaced nasty stuff with the 'pink' stuff, some spots had no insulation where there was a cross board. Looked like they just drilled two inch holes on the top from the outside. Wall stud distances random. Inside walls no studs, thick wide planks.
Out side walls in kitchen, old paneling, few layers of wallpaper, lath and plaster with horse hair holding it together, many newspapers here and there, many in good shape we kept 1908-30s, nasty blown in insulation. Bare outside wall still warm even though below zero outside? Found out why when I replaced windows. Ruff cut tongue and groove pine, layer of asphalt shingles like what would be on a roof, half inch thick black 'masonite' looks like compressed shredded cardboard,sheets i believe, then something similar for siding,laid up like siding painted, but a little thiner and harder, called 'masonite' also. Got to be two inches thick all together. Wife wants living room done next this summer, layers of wallpaper on lathe and plaster, will not let me gut it, just wants sheetrock put over...ohh well, walls ain't cold, old electric hasn't burned the house down yet, would be LOTS easier, don't plan on living here forever anyway...

hhaa miht not be blown in ight just be decomposing crumbling old insulation

 

[Alaskan]

Our house old nasty looking shredded blown in insulation. When we gutted the kitchen walls, replaced nasty stuff with the 'pink' stuff, some spots had no insulation where there was a cross board. Looked like they just drilled two inch holes on the top from the outside. Wall stud distances random. Inside walls no studs, thick wide planks.
Out side walls in kitchen, old paneling, few layers of wallpaper, lath and plaster with horse hair holding it together, many newspapers here and there, many in good shape we kept 1908-30s, nasty blown in insulation. Bare outside wall still warm even though below zero outside? Found out why when I replaced windows. Ruff cut tongue and groove pine, layer of asphalt shingles like what would be on a roof, half inch thick black 'masonite' looks like compressed shredded cardboard,sheets i believe, then something similar for siding,laid up like siding painted, but a little thiner and harder, called 'masonite' also. Got to be two inches thick all together. Wife wants living room done next this summer, layers of wallpaper on lathe and plaster, will not let me gut it, just wants sheetrock put over...ohh well, walls ain't cold, old electric hasn't burned the house down yet, would be LOTS easier, don't plan on living here forever anyway...

Sounds stellar .

 

[Amberjem]

tree down, smushed shed duct taped back together with a lil framing for now.


new box



retaining wall going in



little bit more progress on the retaining wall fence for the free range chicken area...now that the tree is out...still bit more tree clean up but almost done there...think I will innoculate stump
with mushroom spore