Friday, 19 December 2014

The Insulation Installation

After dropping off my eldest for her last day of school I realised that I was having a fairly good day, and was relatively mobile, well, as mobile as I can be on a good day.
I hobbled down to the shed, slid my bar stool across the floor and started to unravel the insulation, luckily the roll is wide and the insulation is fairly sturdy, so it stood up on end unaided. With the aforementioned Screwfix order I bought a new stapler, I was going to use my hammer tacker, but the last time I used that to install insulation it broke through and ripped it, which isn't particularly useful. The new stapler is stunning, and very easy on the fingers, especially seeing as you can basically just lean on it and it shoots the staple.
Anyways... I was sitting on my barstool and unrolling the insulation, with the thickness of this stuff it made it really easy to work with, I just squared it up to the wall and popped some staples into the baton, stretched it a little then shot some more staples, I haven't put any in the bottom half, because I just cant get down there and be able to get back up again, but I should have a friend coming over Christmas Eve that I may be able to convince to play with a "stapley toy" for a little bit and get that sorted. Even at my speed I managed to a reasonable amount of it done before I had to stop and go sit in my chair, its a hell of a lot easier to work with than any other form of insulation that I have used in the past, performance dependant, I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Reserved space for when I put some pics up tomorrow... if I can make it down the garden and back again :)

I really haven't posted enough pics over the last few days, I'll have to get on that, theres been far too much writing and not enough to look at, sorry.