Day 218

I continued my moving things around down on first floor. It is such a huge mess of boxes that I don't even like to think about it. But I guess I am making some progress. I haven't gotten to the opening and getting things out stage, I am still finding and putting like items in the same areas.

The last few days, we have been a bit cold. But this is to be expected, with no furnace, but our wood stove. Most of the walls do not have insulation in them, and the windows are no where near sealing or keeping out much of the cold air. We do have plastic on all of the windows on second floor. And now that we have been working on three of the six rooms, at least those three have insulation in the walls. We do need to get the drywall up in two of those three rooms. I am sure that this would also help to keep us a bit warmer. But that is not something I can do right now. So I started with some little things. In addition to the plastic on the windows, I hung up some extra quilts on the windows in the tower room. We did buy the fabric and the batting that I will use to make the drapes. But I just haven't had the time to get that started yet. And then there is the hole in the floor where we have been running wiring and pipes. It is so cold over there. All of the cold air from down on first floor is being brought up through this hole. So I took apart some of our cardboard boxes and made a removable cover for this hole and laid a piece of insulation over that. WOW! It is hard to believe the difference that these two things can cause. It is much warmer in here. I do still want to put plastic all around that column that we are running the pipe and wire through. But I am happy with what I did today.

Once I get some of the things moved away from the windows down on first floor I want to also cover these with plastic, as well as the ones up on third floor.