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| View from the south end. |
Working toward completion, we received delivery of our insulation panels and were able to stack them inside the structure. That kept them from melting in the noonday Florida sun.
The stretch bars (see on the side) are a critical part of the equation. Proper application (READ THE INSTRUCTIONS) keeps everything lined up so that one side of the building isn’t a foot-and-a-half longer than the other when you get to the end!
There’s a line of stretch bars on the top also, but to elaborate would seem redundant.
Allowing for monsoons, and breaking midday for a few hours to avoid being vaporized by the Florida sun, we completed our mission in just six days.
Looking GREAT! Keep the new posts coming. What R Value do you estimate you are going to have? What kind of cost was the insulation? Melting insulation? you were just hot and exaggerating a bit on this one right?
ReplyDeleteSo Far So Good, How do you fill about it so far?
Looking good. This was one of the buildings I was looking at when I lived in OK. One day I would like to come out to see. Thanks J.R.
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