Late last week and early this week, work has been going on that has made a great change in our project. After months of seeing wood and metal framing inside the building, everything is turning white as a result of the insulation work, and right after it, sheetrock! Now, the upper floor – to be our design studio – is noticeably warmer and much, much brighter.
This is the second and final step of the wall insulation. The crews stapled a fiberglass fabric – called a bibb – across all the wall framing, then blew fiberglass wool into the cavities. Now, combined with the initial layer of sprayed-on, closed-cell polyeurethane foam, the R-30 walls are keeping the building warm – even without a true heat source and with 35 degree temperatures outside. The super-insulated shell is working already.
Enjoy these pictures of the studio, still retaining much of its warehouse character. There’s so much great light bouncing around the space now that the sheetrock is going up. We can’t wait to get up there!
Steven M. Rice, LEED AP®
Is this project still on-going? It seemed like you were really excited to see the whole outcome of this project when you wrote this! Why did you retain the "warehouse character" of your studio? The lighting idea was clever, btw.
ReplyDeleteFaye Acklin