Insulation hanging at the Duck

I have just come back from 5 days at the Duck...hanging insulation. 10 rolls of insulation...416 feet of insulation. up and down the ladder hundreds of times. and whacked the top of my head on the ceiling joist in the kithcen...ouch!

I like the Johns Manville stuff better....it comes in a whole roll and i can cut off a 10' section to put up in one piece. i had 6 rolls of that.

Then i had 4 rolls of the pink panther stuff...that comes precut...into 8 foot sections. so there will be a lot of cut and paste to finish up the bottom 2 feet.  We won't talk about the sections that are too narrow or too wide for the 15" wide insulation. so, next trip will be a LOT of cutting and pasting to fit those sections....days worth.

And i had to take 1 piece down and move it. i can't hang insulation where the pocket doors go into the wall....i almost screwed up there. good thing i noticed after only hanging one piece.

How do you like my brown leather rocker that i scored at auction? it is very comfy. and there is a regular chair to match. they are pretty heavy. i am going to take the bottoms off and add more padding to the seats. they will live in the living room.

This is my kitchen table and chairs that i scored at auction for $41. has tiles on the top. in pretty good shape. rather heavy. i had to take the legs off to get the table into the house. my doorways were too narrow. will probably paint it later.

And i found this tablecloth at the Salvation Army thrift store for 1.49. someone embroidered that so beautifully that i had to bring it home. it's like card table size so i put it on the table crossways.  and the jar with the blue heart that is on the table is a thrift store find, also.  this might have to be called the Thrift Store Duck. hahahaha

After all that insulation hanging...i HAD to pretty something up....anything....so i painted the laundry room and hung stuff up in there. SOME PART of that house had to look more normal. i'll show you what i did in the next posting...

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Demolition Days at the Duck

There was some serious demolition going on at the Duck the last few days. .... ceilings coming down.

And ..... drum roll, please......the GOOD thing is.....my electricity is now all run and i am wired up. i just need to call the electric company to come back out and put my meter back in and hook me up to the pole. Rick spent days sitting on the milk crate....wiring in all the little boxes. the tedious part of the job.

On Tuesday...while Rick was wiring up....i worked on taking down some ceiling in the dining room. i got just a few feet of slats down. tough, nasty, dirty work.

On Wednesday i worked on the living room ceiling. pulling down slats again and insulation. i just got a corner of it done. i was up on the ladder and found piles of insulation up in that corner that was just left up there. about 6 long strips. i guess when they were finished with the job they just left the excess piled up there.

I saw the teenage boy that lives next door - Amos-  and asked him if he wanted to work....and he agreed. this ceiling demolition is for the young...LOL.  so, he came over after school on Thursday and within an hour....had the ceiling in the back room down. give a boy a hammer and he has fun. LOL

Then he moved to the office and got that ceiling down, too. i just need to go up and clean up the edges a bit and take out the nails.

Here is my office ceiling...all on the floor. it takes a lot of bags to pick up all that crap.

Then his mom, Tammy, came over...i guess to check on Amos and make sure i wasn't treating him bad. hahahaha    she said she wasn't doing anything and she could help, too. so i gave her a hammer and she took out the rest of the living room ceiling that i started. she is little but she is fearless and tough.

Here's my living room ceiling....on the floor.

Tammy said she was off work Friday and would come out and help me some more. gee....i like neighbors willing to help you work. so, Friday she took out the dining room ceiling....and then cleaned off all the nails from the rafters in two rooms. it was a long, dirty 6 hour day for her.

She helped me bag up all the insulation and plaster and cart it out to the garage. there are about 60 bags there....awaiting the next dumpster.

And i have learned to bundle the slats up instead of just throwing them in a pile. it is much easer to get them into the dumpster when it is time. so i bundled up all these slats and piled them neatly in a corner of the garage.

On Saturday i took a break for the morning and my sis and i went to the Salvation Army thrift store to see if there was anything interesting there. i scored this tv cabinet for $50. it is in great shape.

I am going to replace that back with another piece of wood without holes in it. there won't be a tv in here....probably quilts or something. 

All in all....it was a great few days of demolition. i'll be down again this weekend for more fun. i have 2 more ceilings to take down...the bedroom and the kitchen. then i believe the major demolition is completed and i can start rebuilding and prettying up. new insulation...drywall....lights...ceiling fans.....fun stuff.

Although i do need some pipes for plumbing, too. i belive that should be next.

So much to do...so little money. hahahahaha      but it will all get done...sooner or

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