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The day started with a bang with the arrival of the insulation company and the stucco company. While the insulators worked in the crawlspace insulating under the floor, the stucco men began by wrapping the garage in Tyvek and nailing on the chicken wire for the stucco. The insulators needed this completed before they could spray the cellulose insulation in the garage because the nailing would disturb the cellulose. They also needed the garage well swept because they recycle any cellulose that hits the floor.

 

Gabriel first stapled on the Tyvek, then nailed the chicken wire over it. Since there needs to be a vapor barrier under the stucco, we prefer to spend the extra few hundred dollars for Tyvek because it allow moisture to escape through its membrane, but it doesn't let moisture in from the outside. Felt paper is more commonly used because it's less expensive, but it will let moisture pass both ways.

Once the windows and other items in the garage were covered in plastic, they mixed the cellulose with water from a tank in the truck then sprayed it into the wall cavities. Once they were filled another man came by with a straight edge and trimmed the cellulose even with the studs. The material has an adhesive mixed into it that allows it to stick to itself and the walls. The air became clouded with dust from the spray (above center photo). The end result (above right) is slick!


What wasn't so slick was the installation of some of the interior wall sound insulation. Instead of cutting the batts where the wires ran and carefully cutting and fitting the batts into the cavities, this is what some of the areas looked like. After a call to the superintendent, they agreed to come out and correct the problem areas.
Since the whole point of this insulation is to reduce sound between rooms, leaving gaps and badly cut pieces defeated the purpose.
These things are to be expected occasionally. What's important is to catch the problem as and correct it promptly; certainly before final payment is made for the service.

The stucco workers found a nest in the dirt by our foundation with some squiggling critters inside. At first they thought they were rats (!!!) but upon closer examination noticed that they had large ears and no tails, so we decided they were rabbits. Our youngest son, Evan, (our resident self-educated biologist) moved the nest down the hill and held them for a moment before settling them under a bush in hopes that the mother would discover them again. At the end of the day I went down to check on them.
They were gone....(sorry, Evan)

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