It's Getting Hot in Here

So I told you on Tuesday that we had replaced all the insulation in the attic above the main room (where we had to replace the ceiling).  I've had the pictures forever, but I haven't showed them to you yet.  They aren't super exciting since I had to stay away (we discovered doing the baffles that I'm super allergic to fiberglass insulation), but I did get a few.

The insulation in our attic is all blown in, which is different that what I'm used to.  The house I grew up in had insulation that came in big rolls, so this blown in stuff is new.  It was also very messy when they took the ceiling down.

But we got the new ceilings up, and rehung the walls.  It was right before we moved in that we decided to go ahead and replace the insulation that had come down because it was getting cold in the main room, especially at night.  So we bought what seemed like a ton of packages of insulation, picked up the blower machine from Home Depot, and went to work.

Landon got to go up into the attic to blow it in, which meant he got to suit up.

The blower was actually outside the Master bedroom window, and we ran the hose in the window, out into the hallway, and then up into the attic.

I tried to get a picture of the insulation being blow in, but the attic was dark and I didn't want to get too close, so this was about all you could see.

It also didn't help that the main room was at the other end of the house from the attic access, hence the never ending pink snake.  Landon is down there somewhere blowing the insulation in while Alan was outside feeding the packages into the machine.  Overall, it didn't take too long to do the entire main room.  We still have to put some back over the Master suite where we had to replace some of the ceiling, but that won't be too bad.  We actually discovered that this insulation isn't as itchy as the old stuff, and it settles pretty quickly.

But it is nice that the main room stays warm now, and we are always one of the last houses in the neighborhood to have snow on the roof when it does snow (which it has done a lot this winter).