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First Step
The first step and overall phase has been to floor all the new areas in. This was a chore because of the duct work that was already there. I would have much rather laid down some decking and moved on with life, but instead we had to come up 11" with 2x12s throughout the new sections.
To do this, I had to rake, sweep, and scoop all the cellulose out of the way so I could get the new flooring joists to lay on top of the ceiling rafters from the house below. Then the 2x12s had to be cut for both ducts and wiring of all sorts to pass through. In some areas we could shift the wiring one way or another with some slack so that they didn't have to be cut as many places.
The first section to go down was a approximately 14' 6" x 8' area to the left of the attic stair. I then starting insulating the new dead space by adding some cellulose back in and making up the balance with R-30 fiberglass.
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the [terrorists] -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
-D. W. Brogan, The American Character
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