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Re: SlimJim in COLD weather
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Posted by Richard Wooldridge on Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 12:16 a.m.,
in response to Re: SlimJim in COLD weather, posted by Bob Minich
Believe me, I'd surely love to have insulation, but the several contractors who've been out to the house and surveyed it have all said the house cannot be insulated due to it's weird construction. It has lath and plaster on the interior, and has 2x4 fireblocks, wood running horizontally between the studs every two feet or so over most of the house. This means that you cannot "blow" anything in for an area greater than the two feet by 16" width unless you take the house apart somewhere. I've tried to install some insulation when I was young and agile, but again there is a third floor sleeping porch that is open from about waist height up to the upper roof, fir wainscoting below that height, and it is VERY hard to get anything loose to put anything in. The third floor floor is laid on true 2x4 "joists", and is very securely nailed down. I have thought of trying to foam some areas, but don't know that it would be successful at all. Any ideas?
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