Home Improvement Today?

Looks nice. It will be worth it after it's done.

Mine took 4 weeks, but they did every floor in the entire house except 2 bathrooms and the master bedroom. While I was living here. I had to move/relocate every single thing that touches the floor, closets included. I work from home so I was confined to the master bedroom, which was piled to the ceiling with stuff, day and night. I can still find sawdust in places even though I took precautions and it was years ago.

 

Its 93F outside right now 115F in my attic 85F in the garage and 72F in the house. i had the garage door open while i was putting down some of my garage floor tiles so i could get some fresh air and now i am back in the house cooling off for a bit. The garage is full of stuff and unorganized right now so its making for slow progress. Also discovered that my walls in my garage are not insulated while i was attaching my tote shelf to one of the walls. The garage is finished and the walls are painted so i assumed that if they went through the effort to finish the garage then they would have insulated the walls but i guess i was wrong. The walls are 14 feet high so not sure on the best way to go about insulating the walls in the garage. gonna have to insulate the long outside wall the wall above the garage door and the half of the house side wall that extends out past the front of the house.

 

Oh man, 4 weeks sounds brutal. We have carpet in the bedrooms, so that helped getting everything out as well as 2 car garage that's 2/3 full. Just living out of the master bedroom is getting old real quick.

Edit: Did you stay home during the stain and poly? They are suggesting we get a hotel.

 

I did stay. I'm stubborn like that. Fans were my friend (I didn't stain - it's a combo of red and white oak, which I left natural).

 

Holy f I would lose my shit if my garage looked like that!

 

I'd guess the least intrusive and cost effective way would be blown in insulation. They (or you) poke a hole at the top of the wall for each stud bay and blow it in. You would have to do the same for any fire blocks; map them with a stud finder and put a hoke at the top of each bay. You can get the insulation at HD and I think you get the machine for free or a reduced rate.

 

Holy crap! I just got home to lock up after they finished today and the smell is uber strong, I don't know if we will be able to stay since we have a kid.

 

Yeah I am having a hard time with the garage in that condition but I've only been home for a month now and I'm still unpacking everything so its one thing at a time and since the tiles took up 5 large boxes i am trying to put them down to eliminate those boxes and then it's on to the next thing in there until I have it all organized.

 

Good luck! I like the tiles.

 

add to that: probably the most expensive habit you can form...way more than street drugs lol this stuff isn't cheap

 

I'm lucky enough to have tall ceilings in the garage too, about 12-13 feet if I remember right. It's insulated, so it stays around 80 unless its one of those 110F heat waves. I plan to throw in a mini split to keep it cool when I'm doing projects.

Mine is just as messy, but I'm waiting till fall or so to really organize it without sweating my butt off.

 

The attic hit a high of 123F today and the high outside today got up to 93F. Is it normal for an attic to be that much hotter than the ambient temperature outside? The only ventilation in the attic are the ridge vents and its supposed to be even hotter for the next four days here and hopefully some rain starting this Saturday to help cool things off here.

 

That doesnt sound bad at all to me at all. Youll find plenty of attics hotter than that Im sure. I know mine could hover 30-40 degrees warmer at peak temp before I added an attic fan. I havent checked attic temps since I installed it but I (surprisingly to me) have noticed the house stays cooler. not drastically or anything but still noticeable.

 

Phase 2 , forms done , rebar tied and chaired , borders ready for concrete

 

Yes, it's normal. Think of your car sitting in a parking lot with the window cracked open. It will be a lot hotter in the car than outside. That's why you have insulation on the ceiling. You should have soffit vents so as the hot air rises out of the ridge vents it pulls in the relatively cooler outside air. It doesn't make a huge difference, wich is why some people (me included) add power ventilation, like gable fans.

 

Yes a solar gable fan works great, is easy to install and you don't have to run AC to it. We talked about it a while back.

 

Whats the thing with the Nazi markings? It looks like part of the Horten flying wing. You work in a museum?

 

That's what it is under full restoration and waiting for the rest of the stuff you show up from the Maryland Storage facility. And yes I did do Volunteer actively work in the preservation hanger at Udvar Hazy cleaning etc:.....