Again the printmaking work has meant another long gap between updates, but here at last is some progress on the next step - getting the insulation up in place. Sadako and I worked together on this - it's no fun at all trying to work over your head, holding things in place while fastening them. We built a little jig, just a board at the end of a pole, with which she could hold the batts up in place, while I positioned them carefully, and then stapled them in place. We don't any photos of that, because there were just the two of us here doing it.
But she shot this snap of me finishing off the angled area near the stairwell ...
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We then got to work with the vapour barrier sheeting. Again, a simple jig helped the work move smoothly ...
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After that layer was in place, I put the track light rail back in position. The room changed again with this insulation in place - the ceiling was the last wide area of exposed concrete, and the room has become even quieter now.
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Those photos were shot in early November. As I write this, it is late December, and I can report that the room is so much warmer now! I use a small electric panel heater; it goes on for an hour or so each morning, and then stays off for most of the rest of the day. I put it back on for a while if I have a work session in the evening.
This is not the end of the insulation. None of the concrete pillars in the corners of the room have yet been paneled, and the ceiling of the working alcove is still bare concrete. The stairwell hole is another place where plenty of heat is being lost, of course. (Just 'temporarily', this is blocked by a sheet of plywood with some batts of insulation roughly stapled in place.) But the situation is so much improved over last year!
