Day 266 - good progress today

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Today the drywall crew started boarding the dining room. Charles, Sean and I stayed a bit later yesterday (until 5:45pm) to complete installing the sound insulation in the laundry room/dining room partition wall. This is the green stuff you see in this photo. It is pretty easy and fast to install if you have studs that are 16" on centre and there are no wires. But it gets tricky and time consuming when you add plumbing, wiring (120v, low voltage, and security) and hvac.

This is a photo of closet in the Office/BR3 - the main bathroom is behind the closet. What this photo shows is that I stuffed extra sound & other insulation in around the bathtub in the main bath. This will help keep the water warmer when you are having a bath, and also reduces the sound transmisison.

The sound insulation works quite well. As an experiment, when the drywallers were boarding the back bedroom, I went into the kitchen, and could tell that the sounds of their tools were noticeably attenuated - this was with no doors and one insulated partition wall. Then I went into the master bedroom (no doors and 2 insulated partition walls) and the sounds were attenuated such that they would have been drowned out by someone talking at a normal volume. Then I went into the master bath (3 insulated walls between the noise makers and myself) and couldn't even hear the drywallers' tools!

The philosophy about the sound insulation was to insulate all partition walls around the quiet spaces (the bedrooms) and the noise generating spaces (the bathrooms and laundry room). In reality, this meant almost all partition walls were insulated.

The boys from Bytown were hard at work again. Here is Rob installing the channel that holds the soffit in place. They completed the soffit on the porch and started installing the aluminum wrap on the beam across the front of the porch.

Accomplishments for today:
- sound insulation completed.
- ceiling adjustment/levelling completed
- started building stairs from garage to basement (about 2/3 done)
- installed support for base for main stairs to basement
- drywall board installed in dining room, BR2, and office.

We will finish the stairs from garage to basement tomorrow, as well as make a good stab at the main stairs, and hopefully get that finished. The drywallers may or may not come in tomorrow, as it was freezing rain most of today.