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It’s not Diamonds but… April 4, 2011

Filed under: Home Innovations,Real Estate — tracee ribar @ 9:10 am

Insulation. Not romantic, certainly not pretty, but remarkably thrilling!  Gary Pack of Pack Insulation ( 740-497-1194) came and blew insulation into the wall cavities of our house from the INSIDE . We had installed new siding 4 years ago and coudn’t drill from the outside. What does a girl do who yearns for warmth, quiet and enery efficiency?  She gets Gary Pack (via our contractor connection, Justin Collamore of Collamore Built Design and Construction)!

I immediately noticed the rooms were quieter and within a 12 hour period of having our furnace fan running/heat on,  noticed a warmer more even whole house temperature. Heating and air companies generally recommend running your furnace fan all year long-don’t rely on “auto”. Keeps energy costs down by keeping a consistent temperature and will help  increase the life of your furnace .

Gary drilled approximately one and one-half inch holes along the walls between the studs and, for almost 3 glorious hours, pumped cellulose goodness throughout the interior nooks and crannies of our 194o’s abode. It felt like Christmas. Perhaps a couple of extra gifts this year with our energy savings?!

He then popped in some wooden plugs, did some rudimentary spackling and off he went. With a little shop vac-ing and some additional spackling and sanding  we are good to go. Yes, you have to paint but, really, aren’t you looking for a reason to change that color anyway?

This was pretty painless, I am truly blown away. (couldn’t help it….)

 

One Response to “It’s not Diamonds but…”

  1. Gail's avatar Gail Says:

    we just can’t help ourselves!


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