Thursday, March 24, 2016

I'm baaack

I last posted on November 2. Oops. Funny how even a part-time job edges out the time I would have spent blogging... How some folks work and build and blog and presumably also grocery shop and walk the dog and bathe is--maybe not beyond me--but certainly impressive.

Luckily, it's only the blogging that I've been really slacking off on. I've been taking pictures of everything I've done, and I have done a few things, so I'll go back and write about them, backdate the posts so the build timeline is represented, and... enjoy!

To make up for the delay, after the jump there's a photo of my "installing polyiso insulation" look...


Thursday, March 10, 2016

Ceiling Panels and Intumescent Primer

Goodbye, ceiling insulation! Hello, an almost finished surface?

I want as many nice, clean, flat surfaces in my house as I can manage, so when it came time to choose a material to close in my ceiling, I did not go with the knotty pine tongue and groove boards that so, so, so many tiny housers choose. 

No, I went with plywood. So glamorous, right? Not...