Spent an entire day installing hardware cloth on the underside of the deck, then a lining of tyvek housewrap, then R21 insulation. Tomorrow maybe we'll start with the actual decking.
Lessons of the day:
- Rat wire takes much more effort and time to install than seems reasonable.
- Everything takes longer than you expect. Four hours always turns out to be eight hours, if it's the first time you're doing something.
- Opening up a bale of fibreglass insulation by cutting the plastic cover with a knife involves a sudden explosive expansion of volume, resulting in bats of insulation lying face down in the dirt, unless one is quite careful and anticipates the popcorn effect.
- Puppies are very cute and playful and fun, but at a work site they get bored and start stealing your work gloves and chewing on aluminum cans and generally getting underfoot. Bear this in mind and allow for it.
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