Just about every wall and ceiling cavity in the house is filled with yellow medium density foam insulation. It feels and squeezes like those water soluble packing peanuts you sometimes get in Amazon.com shipments.
Walking around inside today was an altogether new spatial experience. It was like being muffled under a comforter or having cotton stuffed in your ear canals. Sound died instantly. From the living room we could barely hear the skill saws humming in the driveway, and the back door was wide open. As we stood and stared at (what must be) the NASA technology surrounding us we could vividly imagine the coziness this place will have in winter. We were nearly hallucinating our tiny heating bills.
This photo stitch was shot from the landing between the first and second floors.
- 5/9 :: Daniel adds : That stuff is awesome. The brand new Mayflower Inn Spa filled every single wall in the new building with the stuff, mostly for its sound proofing ability. You are going to have one quiet (and cozy) house. I just wish we'd had the foresight to fill our ceilings with the stuff when we did our original construction, our biggest complaint is our upstairs neighbors clomping around.
