So…the insulate the exterior wall of the bedroom proof of concept test: The results are pretty much what I’d hoped for. Sunday I cut and stuck foam insulating panels on the back bedroom wall with double sided mounting tape. For the rest of that day the temperature in the room seemed to maintain pretty steadily. But the real test I knew, would be how it felt in the morning after a good overnight chill outside.<\/p>\n
I’ve actually been running an oil filled space heater in the bedroom lately because it gets so cold overnight. When I first moved into Casa del Garrett, I used to run an electric blanket. But the blanket died on me last year and I bought the oil filled space heater to replaced it, thinking that a space heater was a more versatile spot heating solution then an electric blanket. Since I was testing the difference insulating that back exterior wall would make, I kept the heater off.\n<\/p>\n
Monday morning the bedroom was refrigerator cold when I got up. But none of the foam panels I’d put up were radiating coldness at all. So it was coming from somewhere else then the sections of wall I’d insulated. As I paced around the room trying to see where the cold was coming from I realized I’d forgotten about the wall length closet on one side of the room. <\/p>\n
That closet goes the entire length of the bedroom on the wall I share with my neighbor. One end shares a wall with the bathroom and the other end of it is the exterior wall. That little slice of exterior wall in the closet was cold as ice when I put my hand to it and it was chilling all the air in the closet, which then seeped out into the bedroom. So Monday I put up some more sheet foam against that wall. I also added some more foam panels to a portion of the exterior wall that had been built out to accommodate one of the heating ducts as it was very chilly too. \n<\/p>\n
Once more I slept without the space heater on. This morning when I got up it was 16 degrees outside and the bedroom was pretty warm. So this pretty much settles it. My project starting next spring is to insulate the exterior walls here at Casa del Garrett.<\/p>\n
More on that as I get into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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