So I fixed all the gutters “properly”, only this little piece of crap evidently had a pinhole leak. I guess this means I wanted to go back to the box store sigh.
Permalink What the hell This morning I went to my office in the garage, and found the first ~4 feet by the door flooded. Luckily my office has poly, 2" of XPS and two layers of plywood on top of that, so it’s totally dry - but what the crap man :/ Four of the gutters terminate only a couple inches from the house (and some are actually below grade).
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Permalink Not this :/ Due to the rushing of moving, we had not yet moved any bed frames, we just had 3 mattresses on the floor. I put poly under the big mattress to make it easier to move around in the room - and randomly I happened to notice that water was collecting under the poly!
After more investigation, all the mattresses had water under them, and one of them had the tiniest bit of mold
After adding the insulation, and swapping out the buddy heater with an electric one (because XPS is very flammable), I’m finally nice and warm :) The XPS wound up fitting quite nicely, am very happy with it.
After adding 2" of insulation inboard of the walls, the corners didn’t touch anymore. So I found some scrap cedar in the cord wood pile, and made it “work” ;) Also had my first interaction with the tractor… Just a couple loads of dirt, hydraulics are fun!
Getting enough XPS for the office into the truck was not easy Immediately began the retrofit the office to take the insulation
Note: I put insulation below two layers of opposing plywood. This means the structure is insulated on every side.
Moved everything out of the office so I could put carpet down, then moved everything back. Nothing, still freezing my butt off.
Am so tired of moving my office kit around 😡
Gotta love 48" on center ;)
(Sadly, once constructed I absolutely froze my butt off… so cold) Tried covering the room in visqueen, but that didn’t make it any warmer at all (had a heater running inside full blast).
