32F and sunny @ 13:30, heading up to a high of around 35F for the day.
Garage seems to be holding temps nicely: only dropped to 37F (from 39F) over the past several days when overnight lows were in the 20's. It's now up to 38F.
Emptied out the whole house vac and got all the trash and recyclables gathered up and loaded in the car yesterday including the bags from the basement.
Was going to take the paper products down to the recycling bins at a local place but their containers were all still full.
Since we were more than 2/3rds of the way to the grocery store, we headed over there to pick up an item they were out of the other day when The Woman went shopping. They had told her they were due to get a truck later that day, but unfortunately the item(s) She was looking for did not come in. Still think She managed to grab a few items though.
Dropped off all the trash and recyclables up at the road, including all the paper and cardboard.
Fed fish.
Vacuumed south wall and adjacent floor back in utility room.
Got one of the 2" foam board panels glued up and placed and braced against that south wall in the utility room. Used a 5 gallon bucket of gravel and a 2 x 4 along the bottom, a couple of pieces of 3/4 plywood leaning in towards the middle, and a pair of HF clamps flipped to act as spreaders at the top.
Also got a second panel moved back into the utility room and trimmed to length (89")
Removed the staples holding an alarm system wire from the sill plate and moved the wire out of the way.
Also discovered that there is cold air flowing into the utility room from a 2" gap in between a HVAC duct (that goes into the family room) and the exterior concrete wall, where the duct passes through an interior concrete block wall (part of the central chimney system)
Was going to fill that up with Great Stuff ... but not really sure I can get to it without removing the ductwork ...
At any rate, that begs the question: where is all this cold air coming from exactly ?
I suspect the interior wall in the family room, which is paneling, has only 1x furring strips and no insulation whatsoever. May also have air leaks where wiring passes through the exterior wall.
At any rate will not know for sure until I get into that room and get the paneling torn out. But there is a whole set of built-in cabinets that will need to be torn out before I can even get to the paneling. That won't likely happen until later, maybe around Spring.
Woman heading out shortly to do a little shopping.
Agenda for today:
Refill hopper feeder.
Haul more tools downstairs from the garage.
Feed fish.
Wipe down the next panel and get it glued up and braced.
Trim the next one after that.
Some more sanding and staining.
Plus whatever else comes up.
Hope everyone is having a good Tuesday ...
