until next fall

I finished bagging up the last old insulation this week and pulled all my tools out for the summer.  I will be adding a storm window on the east side and I have to finish building a wood storm window for the rounded, skinny, cool window on the west side.  (I gotta get a pic of that.)  Besides it gets way too hot up there to work, plus I have a ton of work outside to work on now!  Painting, re-glazing windows, oh and I will be adding the soffit vent for the attic on the south side of the house.  Hopefully today Shawn and I will get all the gabs of insulation out of the attic and in the garage so I can slowly throw them in the trash each week.  Until the fall then!

making some progress

So the other day I started to build and knee wall.  I was about to put the top on it and realized that a number of the studs were on the wrong side of the line.  Anyways I ran out of time and needed to pull it apart and I did that today.  I then put it to place.  After much frustration I think it is pretty much level!  Once this this knee wall is completed I hope to some shelves for storage in front of it.  This is going to be a constant battle due to the fact that the house is not level.  Today I also added some truss cords (a ceiling board between two trusses).  This should put the ceiling, once finished, at just under 8 feet tall.  So the framing is coming along nicely.  I am pretty sure that I do not have enough lumber yet, but I am still scanning for more on Craigs list.

This past Tuesday I started bagging up some of the old insulation that we need to throw out.  I would have done this last weekend when I had the dumpster hear, but it was 80+ degrees out and it would have been 110+ degrees in the attic so I choose to wait.  Its a bummer cause that stuff, when bagged up is heavy and going to hard to get out of the attic.
So I hope to be getting a bunch of this framing completed yet this spring, but it is going to get too warm out to be able to work up there, and I have a BUNCH of stuff to do out side of the house!

the list is getting smaller

So we had a dumpster delivered yesterday and Shawn and I cleaned out all the stuff I had torn out of the attic and the closet where the stairs will be.  It took all of an hour to do this, which was much less time than I thought.  I also have finished all but two baffles on the south side, torn up the floor boards (south side) and brought up a bunch of lumber that was crowding the garage.  Today I hope to get the rest of the lumber to the attic, clean up some of the old insulation and get ready to move the other insulation over to the south side.  I hope to get some more pics and up load them as well.