Why? Our living room has always very cold in winter. We've tried a lot of things to keep it warm. Dad cut a hole in the floor under our bench and put a pipe channeling the air out of the bench vents, hoping the warm air from the basement where the pellet stove is would come up, but that didn't work.
Then he tried putting a duct fan in that pipe, and that didn't work either.
He tried caulking, he tried that disgusting, oozy "Great Stuff" sealant thing, but it turned out to not be so great after all.
We even resorted to stuffing little pieces of paper towel into all the cracks around the skylight and along the edge of the ceiling.
We were STILL cold!
And so, Dad decided it was time to stop putsing and get serious. Enter Mr. Chid. Yesterday he and his men came out and started piling insulation over the existing ceiling and nailing new boards over that.
The new wood is much prettier - natural cedar. The old stuff was, quite frankly, stained a rather ugly rust color.
Enjoy the pictorial documentation of the progress thus far.
They still have a day or so of work left, but pictures of the finished product will be coming!
The "Before" Photo - original ceiling
Half way - what do you think, should we just leave it like that?
Gavana thinks she better stay up here...
They still have a day or so of work left, but pictures of the finished product will be coming!
2 comments:
Looks great! But I didn't think your previous ceiling looked horrible either.
Yeah, the ceiling didn't look bad at all before but the cold/heat issue was huge. We're hoping all that insulation will help us stay warmer in the winter and not feel like we're in a sauna in the summer!
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