I was hoping that today would just be tossing insulation up into the rafters non-stop, but one minor issue did end up stopping me for a little detour: the mounts for my car hole door tracks.
I don't really want to entomb these forever behind the insulation, strapping and drywall (just entombing them behind the drywall would be acceptable, though), so I'm going to put in a piece of blocking and lower them down below the level of the rafters.
Like this, basically.
Cutting through the slotted angle wasn't too bad to do with my snips, and I made sure to bevel the ends so as not to leave a pointy-sharp right angle.
Anyway, with that done I was ready to get rolling with stuffing the insulation, and now that I had yesterday's experience under my belt, I surely wouldn't be spending an hour on fitting the insulation panel into each stud bay.
Or at least that's what I told myself before spending an hour on fitting the insulation panels into each stud bay.
I did a little reset though and had a think about the pain points I was running into, and decided to switch things up a little bit by cutting the panels cross-ways into 4 foot panels rather than lengthwise into 8 foot ones. Wrestling the full 8 foot lengths up here was turning out to be quite a chore, and cutting them was equally awkward given that the straightedge I was using is only 4 feet long.
These 4 foot panels did indeed turn out to be much easier to deal with, and despite needing to do twice the layout and cutting, the process went much quicker than with the 8 foot ones, so I'll be continuing like this from here on I think.
Of course, there's only 6 more full-length rafter bays until I get into the weeds of the valley rafter bays, so I was going to run out of places to stick 8 foot panels soon anyway.
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