Pulled down a load of ceiling laths. A local lady took a load away last year for firewood and I saw her walking past today (she walks past the house most days, I guess we're between where she lives and whatever she does during the day) so I asked if she needed any more. She said she'd take them, so I figured I might as well take the chance to get rid of a load more. So I got busy pulling, and ended up getting most of the ceiling in my target room pulled down. I had to stop because I hadn't cleared out enough cellulose from above the ceiling to be able to get right into the corners without it cascading down on my head. I also found another big section with no ceiling insulation. The room has two external walls and both of them lacked proper insulation. What that means is that the cold air could blow over the exterior wall and down the inside, effectively meaning that all I had to keep the cold air out was a lath and plaster wall. No wonder that room and the room below it were always cold. And of course once the cold air is inside the wall cavity it can blow sideways and affect adjacent rooms. If I can get my insulation panels against the wall and copious quantities of fiberglass in the ceiling cavities so it's all nicely sealed up, this winter should be a whole lot warmer in there. I also took the chance to take some rubble to the landfill. The new bags I'm using are bigger so I can tape them shut, which means I don't mind hauling them in my car. I took 400lb away today, and thinking I'm probably going to be in town again on Thursday so I'll take another load then. At this rate my front porch might be cleared within a couple of weeks.
Yeah. Seems weird that lightning would cause all that, but what do I know? We were only out for about 20 minutes, but even then the voltage kept going up and down for a while.
Yeah, it literally spanned the province from the coast at Prince Rupert to the Alberta border at Dawson Creek. I think that's well over 1500km by highway.
Been ripping apart the last remaining shreds of one of our bedrooms. I think this is going to be the first room that gets finished. With the benefit of hindsight I should have done this room first and then moved on - it would have saved a lot of hassle and heartache. But it's all a learning process, and there's enough left to do that I can benefit from the learning yet. The room is now a shell. All the walls are torn down back to the studs and almost all of the ceiling is also down. The small part that remains is only there because there's a piece of furniture underneath it that is a hassle to get out of the room and I haven't cleared a space to move it to so I can rain plaster and concrete down onto the space it currently occupies. Then I get to shim out the walls and ceiling to make sure everything is nice and even, put insulation panels between the wall studs, run cables to the breaker panel so I can have little luxuries in the room (like, you know, working power sockets), and then hang some drywall. I'll still want to do a couple more bits with the windows, and I'll need to sand and refinish the floor once it's all done, but I can see the way forward with this room at least. Once the drywall is on the ceiling I can fit a ceiling fan, lay fiberglass in the cavity above, lay new flooring in the attic above, and move stuff across onto it ready to blitz the next room. It will be good to finally get a room finished and ready to use again, especially since it will also be nicely insulated and hopefully much better soundproofed.
Most of the rest of the ceiling in the demolition room is now down, along with another 40-odd gallons of cellulose. Thankfully not too much of the 40 gallons ended up all over me. There are a few laths I need to cut because they go behind doors and walls and the like, which is a real drag, but it's probably easier to do that than to shim everything out enough to drywall over the top of them. Then I can shim everything as needed to make it straight and level, and then think about the windows and how to remove the door to the very undersized closet that's going to be coming out completely. Along the way I need to figure out what to do with everything in the closet. I see more stuff getting dumped in the attic.....
8-9 years I shared a funny -- self recorded in my house -- video on Youtube, the cat hugging our puppy dog on the couch. Yesterday I noticed that video was claimed by a music company as theirs me in breach of breaking copyright. When I filed a complaint to Youtube I got an answer from YT a few hours later with the message my complaint was rejected. And now I need a lawyer, anyone knows a good one? Nevermind I just deleted the video from YT.
I've heard nothing but complaints from Youtubers dealing with copyright claims. The YT algorithm did/does have some issues.