Insulation

For a few months now Kory has been researching different types of insulation. We've gone to Home Depot and Lowe's and have priced it all out. He wanted to use the insulation sheets and the pink fuzzy stuff. However Home Depot and stores like it wanted $22+ sheet. That wasn't going to happen!

Several weeks ago Kory had to go to Salt Lake. Before hand he had searched KSL on their classifieds to see if there was anything listed that we could use on the house. To his delight he found an ad for insulation sheets at $7 a piece. There is nothing wrong with them. The reason they are so cheap is that the machine making them did not stamp the info on the sheet so they sold them to a contractor who used what he needed and listed the rest of them..... so Kory bought them! What an awesome deal we got! Kory filled his trailer to the brim. We sure hope we have enough for the house.  

The other night I came home from Mutual and Kory had begun cutting the sheets and installing them.  

Woo Hoo! 

He also had time to frame one of the closets! He wanted to frame a wall but we still have a brick interior wall in the way so another day for that....

So awesome to see it coming along.

For a few weeks now we have not had a front door. It's been fine we've made it work but really has been an inconvenience when it comes to doing laundry. I have to haul those heavy baskets out the back door around to the front of the house, through the front of the garage, into the front of the house to where our washer and dryer is. I've been doing it for a while and have just made it work. Well Kory had to do it once and he was not a fan. So he took down the melamine that he had hung up over the old laundry room doorway. Its been great! However I feel like we are kind of exposed not having a door. 

Standing at that doorway you look out to see the future bedrooms. We have one window installed but not the other because it has the electrical box hanging in it. 

When you step through the doorway to the left is our washer/dryer. You can see the new front door that we don't use yet. Then to the left is where the garage interior door is going to be. The wall is framed just not sheeted. So we can step right into the garage which doesn't have any doors yet either. 

It has really made doing laundry this week a lot easier. However I have dreams the neighborhood skunk that lives across the street is going to wander into our house. Ewwwwww! 

Kory thinks I'm crazy. 

Then yesterday Kory let the chickens out (coop is in the backyard) at lunch and forgot to put them up. I took Kylie to school and came home to find a chicken in my house! I chased it out and then thought to take a picture of her when she was in one of the kids future bedrooms. I eventually got her back to the coop. Kory said we can frame that wall on Saturday so we don't get more chickens or other animals in the house. We'll still have an open window so we may get a bird but I would feel a lot better knowing we won't get a stray dog, cat, chicken or that dang skunk we smell several times through out the week!