Soon all of the rafters will be closed off with a ceiling, and then blow in insulation can be added to help regulate temperatures inside the building. I am looking forward to this as wasps and birds keep finding their way up in the rafters so closing this area off will be nice.
The walls will have insulation added as well, not as much as the ceiling but that is fine, you need more on the ceiling than the walls anyways. The wiring seen is going to be power to the workshop from my solar array that is a work in progress.
We need to add some more wiring so I can get 240V in the workshop. And we are also adding a ethernet cable so we have wired internet in the workshop. Wireless would be difficult with the steel walls of the workshop. But we can surely make our own network inside the workshop once its powered. Just works alot better than trying to use wireless repeaters I find.
With the insulation on the way we need to move some of the big tools around here. That is our trencher, we use that to run water lines for irrigation and to run power cables and what not.
The side insulation for the walls arrived and place in a corner, its compactly wrapped and will expand once open.
Since the ceiling was not completed at this time the insulators started on the walls.
Straps were added first, so they can then attach the insulation batts. This is solid form insulation, not the same as the blown in.
Lots of prep work before they can add the insulation.
Adding insulation to my workshop:
A few weeks later the ceiling gets installed and all of the side insulation is up.
The ceiling took a few days to do, along with a lift rental. Since the ceiling is around 13 feet tall doing it by ladder felt a little shaky, so by using a motorized lift we can move it and by battery power and have a safe platform to stand on.
The lights have been installed as well, waiting for solar power now to use them.
Next is to cover the insulation on the walls, I am thinking of using metal roofing material.. like what I used for the chicken and duck house.
Adding insulation to my house:
My home is in need of more insulation, unlike my workshop it had some already but it needed more. So some work was done to improve the shielding from the elements.
A reflective barrier was adding, its like a space blanket that goes up against the walls.
We can see some of the old insulation, its not doing much so they add more by blowing it in once done adding the wall barriers.
With the reflective wall barriers up its time to blow in the insulation.
An access door is used to get to this unfinished area of the house.
Inside we can see there is no insulation, but adding some will help.
The company I hired uses a machine that takes packs of insulation and breaks them up into a blow in form.
A pipe is ran up the stairs and feeds the foam like material coming out that fills in the space really well.
We can see the blow in material passing through the hose.
Now we can see the insulation has been added but still room for ventilation.
Seeing how this machine works was quite interesting.
Hopefully when it gets really cold our heaters will not need to work so hard to hold the temperatures. Now we need to find a material to cover the walls with.