More Insulation.

Last Saturday June 2 we took the day off. We actually came home that day from a 3 day vacation from Lake Powell. It was a much needed break away from work and the house!

Before we continue with the wiring Kory needs to put more "top plates" on. But before we can do that we needed to remove the ceiling sheet rock and all the old yucky insulation that is in the attic. Last time we did this we had Hunter climb up into the attic and kick everything down. It made a HUGE mess. We had to scoop up the insulation with shovels and dump it into large garbage sacks. It  took several hours to clean everything up and insulation was always "in the air", it was horrible! 

So this time Kory brought up his old dust collector. We sat it up outside the garage and had Hunter climb into the attic and began suctioning that old insulation out. It worked perfectly! Earlier this week he was able to suction out all the insulation over the garage. 

You can see Hunter in the attic!

On Friday, June 8, Hunter went to work with his Dad so Madelyn, Emily, Brayden, Kylie and I went to work on removing the old sheet rock from the ceiling in the garage. It took us a few hours but we got all that sheet rock taken down and put into our garbage cans. We were so busy I didn't take any pictures of us working. Bummer! 

I also had  Brayden take out all the old nails from the trusses that were holding up that old sheet rock. He did a great job!

While Brayden was removing nails the girls and I moved to the next room, the boys old room. We knocked some sheet rock down so we could start suctioning out the old insulation.  We got about 1/3 of the room suctioned out when the bag popped off the dust collector and scattered insulation all over our yard! Madelyn and I as quick as we could picked up most of it. 

I could not figure out how to put the bag back on so we called it a day. 

Saturday June 9

Saturday morning, Kory put another bag on the dust collector and Hunter and I went to work! 

We finished sucking out all the insulation from his old bedroom, parts of our future family room and the hallway. We also took down the sheet rock from his old bedroom. The front part of our house is finally free of insulation and sheet rock. 

At the end of the day we had filled 3 of these massive bags with nasty, old insulation.  

While Hunter and I were working on the insulation Kory and the rest of the kids were doing more wiring in the bedroom. 

He installed the can lighting in the closet, the light switches and the boxes and wiring for internet. 

It was a long day. But a good day. I love the days that I feel we accomplish a lot!