{"id":1230,"date":"2009-03-17T21:54:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:54:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:54:18","slug":"insulation-cozy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Insulation = cozy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-1.JPG' title='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-1.JPG' alt='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The house&#8217;s internal systems are coming together fast. The wiring, plumbing, and heating\/air conditioning ductwork are in the walls and inspected. Today, the insulation was put in. All of a sudden, the house is snug and warm. I couldn&#8217;t resist sitting by the fire for a while tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The insulation inspection should happen tomorrow. On Thursday, the installation of the drywall should begin. The drywall will take five to six working days.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-2.JPG' title='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-2.JPG' alt='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-2.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above, the living room as seen from the radio room on the second floor. The radio room is a balcony and will have a railing.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-3.JPG' title='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-3.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-3.JPG' alt='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-3.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above, the radio room as seen from the upstairs bedroom. The upstairs bedroom will have an window open to the living room and will have a railing. That 2&#215;4 is a temporary railing to keep workers from falling off the balcony.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-5.JPG' title='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-5.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-5.JPG' alt='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-5.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New insulation around the gothic window<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-4.JPG' title='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-4.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-4.JPG' alt='s-insulation-day-2009-03-17-4.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put my nerd instincts into coming up with the best security systems I can afford. Video cameras with infrared night vision, for example, watch all the doors and all sides of the house. I&#8217;ll also have motion detectors outdoors that will silently and wirelessly report any outdoor activity up to the radio room. I&#8217;ll have a panic button. My amateur radio antennas will be hidden in the attic. I&#8217;ll have battery backup for my computers and radios. Emergency communications is too important to be allowed to fail if the power goes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house&#8217;s internal systems are coming together fast. The wiring, plumbing, and heating\/air conditioning ductwork are in the walls and inspected. Today, the insulation was put in. All of a sudden, the house is snug and warm. I couldn&#8217;t resist sitting by the fire for a while tonight. The insulation inspection should happen tomorrow. On &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insulation = cozy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}