More painting of the siding. This was starting to feel like this task would take forever, but now we have 20 or so boards done, and the rest shipped off to family with a paint sprayer and a promise to paint them for us. We really appreciate it!
Much of the inside of the house has turned into drying space for the siding. And storage for tools, and materials. Actually, it's a little scary how little space is left with some stuff stored inside!
More progress one the utility box.
It's now up to pretty much the same level of completion as the rest of the house.
This didn't come out as clearly as I hoped, but what you're supposed to see here is tons of condensation on the windows (and the fascia, and everything, really). That's how the house is every morning now, as it's falling below freezing at night now. I really wish the roof-with-1-week-lead-time-that's-now-on-week-six we ordered would arrive. The overarching goal for timeline on the house was exterior completion before the first snowfall, and if we don't get that roof on soon, I'm not sure we will make it.
This weekend, we started on the Roxul rigid board insulation on the exterior. It adds an additional R8 to the wall assembly, and provides some cover for the thermal path of least resistance/thermal bridge of the wall studs. I have no doubt we'll appreciate the extra insulation when living in JR House during Rochester winters.
Very like the Gutex on the roof, the Roxul gets sandwiched with battens, though in vertical configuration on a wall, they're called "furring".
Since those furring strips are secured through four layers and nearly as many inches to reach the studs (thank you German manufacturers for making massive screws not readily available in the US), it's pretty important, but not easy, to ensure those screws hit dead on the center of each stud. This picture shows how we used a level to ensure the furring board stays directly over the stud down its whole length.
The Roxul actually went up pretty quick: we got the entire south wall done this weekend.
And just at the end of the day on Sunday, we started Roxul on the east wall and figured out exactly where we wanted to place the furring strips to provide a good nailing surface to both the corner trim and the siding.
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