Floored

Whoever thought I would get so excited about insulation? Although I'm a super freak about saving energy, insulation was never my topmost priority. It was always just some pink fuzzy stuff that looked like highly poisonous cotton candy. But today I realized just how important that cotton candy is going to be in my newly remodeled home when I open my newly updated power bill.

Darryl thinks the rows of insulation look like bodies in bags.

The sub-floor is almost complete (with tools of the trade
scattered around for authenticity).

In between the floor joists, we now have complete floor insulation. It's job is going to be to regulate the heat that flows through the new rooms so that we don't get such wide fluctuations in temperature. Heat energy will get trapped in the fiberglass so that a barrier is created. In the old room, we would get such extreme temperature ranges that you would think you were in another country. As anyone who has slept in that old room can attest, winter in the "big room" was like winter in Eastern Europe. No amount of radiators, blankets or rugs could totally eradicate the shivers on the coldest nights. Yet in the dead of summer, that room was a furnace, and the ceiling fans on full blast barely made a dent in the Saharan atmosphere. So looking at that beautiful pink mush  almost makes my heart skip a beat! Between the new insulation in the floors, walls and roof, and the solar panels yet to come, our house will be so energy efficient we'll almost be able to shut down the electricity and run everything on the power generated by little hamsters going around and around on their wheels. That'll be the basis for my next blog: Rodent Power!