Here's the latest update on the shop. Installing insulation in a finished attic and between ceiling joist of an unfinished interior are two completely different kettles of fish. A bat of insulation is 94 inches long and the building is 12 feet wide. Actually, that's the outside dimension. The inside is more like 11 feet 6 inches. When Sue and I started out we thought it would be easier to tape the ends together on the floor and lift it into position all at once. Oops? That's not the way. For the next joist space we lifted a full length bat into place, stapled it to the joist and then cut one to fit the remaining space. That was a little better but that almost 8 foot length was somewhat of a handful for a woman and a blind man on step ladders. I forgot to say this building is built on 24 inch centers so these are the wide bats. Because it is the attic they are 6 inches thick too. What we finally settled on is to cut one bat exactly in half and put one half at one end of the space and the other half at the other end. With that we can handle the insulation and the staple gun. Then we measure the remaining space and cut off a bat to fit allowing 2 inches of overlap for the paper on each end of the third piece. Then we tape up the seem with Gorilla tape. We have 3 more spaces to do and only enough insulation for 2 and 2/3 spaces.
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