Literally, that's how hot it felt at 2 pm last Saturday as I went back up into our attic/crawlspace. My uncle Jim arrived at 8 am to install a bathroom fan in our upstairs bathroom. No, we did not have an exhaust fan in our bathrooms when we bought the house, and no, it is not necessary to have one for your house to be up to code. Apparently, all you need to vent out moisture in a bathroom is a window.
Jim had installed a vent at his old house so he was a huge help with this all-day project. Some things I learned while we were doing this:
- Get started early. As the day goes on, it gets hotter and hotter. You will thank yourself at noon for starting at 8 am.
- Electrical work, although complicated, was not that scary.
- Doing work on your house seems to typically be a two-man job.
- It was hot. Really hot. I was sitting on a board on top of insulation, and I had sweat rolling down my face as if I had just stepped out of the shower.
- We don't have much room in our attic.
- I was surprised to find out that our layer of insulation is almost 1 and a half feet thick. That is pretty thick! We'll see if that makes a difference in the dead of winter.
- Thank God for blown insulation. Anna might disagree (it ended up EVERYWHERE), but it saved us a lot of discomfort that fiberglass would have caused.
- Did it mention it was hot? If I had to guess (and Jim will agree), it was about 130 degrees up there.
To make a long story short (kind of), we got everything done and working by 3-ish, but as we were crawling up on the roof to cut a hole for the vent, we noticed a piece for the vent was missing from the box it came in. I am going to go pick it up tomorrow and (hopefully) recruit my brother Luke to finish up the roof stuff. He knows what he is doing up there, so I trust him. Ha! We will keep you posted on the results!
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-Josh
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