When we last left off, I had just upgraded my tool arsenal with some foam cutting jigsaw blades. I'm happy to report that these have been working remarkably well. So well, in fact, that I've managed to finally get all of the insulation panels installed.
This was also helped a great deal by the T-square that I finally got around to purchasing.
I really should have got this from the start, but live and learn I guess.
Speaking of learning things, I learned that my head gets really sweaty when I'm at the top of a ladder. I think it must be because I'm afraid of heights, since there's simply no other logical explanation for it.
But I managed to persevere, and, as I mentioned above, the insulation panels are all in place. Let's take a moment to bask in their insulating glory.
The moment of basking is over, work will resume immediately.
Specifically, the work of putting up the strapping. At some point in the far distant future I expect this strapping will be holding up some drywall, but in the more immediate present it's going to keep the insulation panels from falling out, since a few of them aren't an especially snug fit and the tape won't hold them forever.
First up, the diagonals along the valley.
Followed by filling in across the joists.
The pneumatic nail gun is really pulling its weight here.
Continuing across the top, it's more of the same, though on a 19.2 center instead of the 16 inch centers, because this section of ceiling happened to be about 40 inches across so it divided more evenly that way.
If you recognize this strapping from a few years ago, you've got a good eye. It's actually the strapping that used to be (barely) holding up the vinyl siding that used to be on the front of my house. Naturally I wouldn't throw away some perfectly good crappy wood, and that decision paid off handsomely today.
Of course there isn't nearly enough of it to do the whole ceiling so I'll need to get about 30 more boards to wrap things up, give or take, but I at least had enough to get things started.
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