A full day of construction work today, continued from last night. Here's the printing alcove, with the normal gear all cleaned out of the way, and a long brace visible ...

It's holding up a long stringer that is being glued into place on the ceiling. (This is the area that was originally outside. Before I took out the doors and built this alcove this was the balcony.)

Sheets of insulated board will be glued onto these concrete faces, with a vapor sheet to cover, then light slats being tacked on top.

The main job today though, was to get as much of the main insulating done as possible. I cracked open a new package of fiberglass:

... and Ishigami-san and I began to staple it in place between the joists:

You can now perhaps see how the ceiling is going to look - light slats running the length of the room will be tacked up, and will curve down and around this concrete beam:

While the two of us were working on that, Tsushima-san was busy painting some new shelves that I put in place the other day:

With insulation panels measured, cut, and in place against the concrete, it looks much neater:

The final large uninsulated surfaces then got their turn, and the printing alcove is now all covered in. Here's a quick shot taken (from outside) this evening, just before the final sheet went into place. The braces to hold some of the stringers while the glue sets are still in place ...

... and then after everything was covered, and the braces removed:

As you have seen in some of the recent snapshots, there is quite a rat's nest of cables terminating in this area, and I suspect it won't be too long before I get a bit frustrated and get to work on getting them under cover. All the wiring will be fed through a cable run starting under the top step of the staircase, and coming out into this vertical space at the side of the alcove. This will be covered with an openable 'face plate', which will have a number of connectors mounted on it: a pair of power plugs, an ethernet jack, the telephone connection, audio (out), and a plug for the intercom from the front door upstairs.

And finally, did you notice in the above photos the place in the alcove where there is a particularly heavy and strong plate mounted on the concrete wall?

This is exactly over my head as I sit there working ... Any guesses?