I am starting to hate this attic. really. Not the house mind you, JUST THIS ATTIC. We wear the best safety body gear from the local hardware store money can supply ;), masks and plastic gloves. With ALL of that I still had dirt under my nails, brusing all over my body and blowing dirt out of my nose for 3 days after. WHHYYYY?!?
Brusing skin and Attic dirt nastiness as side. We needed to get this CLEAN OUT done. As this project has gone so far, everything has a priority. We have done the roofs, chimneys, gutters and basement. Now we are so close to the FUN part! Tearing out the walls and ceilings you know the aggresson release stuff. With 2020 not being so great, AGGRESSION release may be up my alley right now. I have a feeling I am not the only one, right?!?
The first( next ) priority is removing the blow insulation that was just underneath the attic floor boards and the ceiling in the future 2nd floor bedrooms was holding up. I had nightmares of removing the ceiling upstairs and having years of bat and mouse poop plus whatever the blown insulation was made out of fall ALL over me. SOO GROOSSSS! This nightmare lead me to find a trusty thing called insualtion vac. I was going to buy our own but then saw that a local rental place had it to rent but needed to do it quick 24 hour rental about 500.00! Thank goodness when we got our groove figured out. Cause when we did it went pretty quick.
I am also very grateful that someone( I assume in the Leichring family ) numbers all the floor boards! So they went back together pretty easy. I would pull 2 to 4 boards up at a time and be like ” oh NO I hope to God I can figure this puzzle peice out” We did:) Another thing that makes ME super CALM is seeing the”damn vaccum sucker blocking foam” under the blown insualtion. BECAUSE that means the insulation is pretty new ( 30 years or younger by the looks of it:)
We had 4 of these bags of insualtion filled of heavy insulation and I have a pretty good feeling of a few local squirrel’s hidden walnuts and 1 confirmed mouse skeleton.
Until the next time!
Our Amana Home 