It was HOT here this weekend... like the hottest that Asheville ever gets (93-98) for 4 days. I think that it might have made us go temporarily insane for doing 4 things that you should never do when it is this hot.
#1: Work on your roof.
Our poor neighbors, I cut 2 holes in our roof at 7:30am Saturday and even then it was too hot.
I LOVE the sun tunnels, even though on the outside, they look like our house has zits! They will shine sunlight right on the bar & sink areas. They are open now, but will be closed after we sheetrock.
#2: Install the prickliest, hottest, scratchiest insulation:
Don't let the fluffy pink cotton candy look fool you, this stuff is horrid. The millons of little fibers stick into your skin and make you want to die. I literally almost passed out in the shower afterwards. Good thing is that it already made the kitchen cooler!
#3: Scrape & Sand something that contains a ton of (pet & human) urine.Marc worked hard removing and relaying the heart pine flooring. Too bad it came from either the kitchen (and had dog & cat pee all over it) or from the upstairs bathroom by the toilet. EW!
These boards are old, great, HARD wood. So hard that when you take them up, they go back to their natural (bowed) shape. We had to go to ridiculous lengths to straighten them back out and get them to lay down. Like use a truck-bed tie down and wrap it around your stud wall! Hey it is ridiculous, but it WORKED! (Next up for the flooring, more SANDING & the clear-coat stain.)
#4: Have a bonfire (and invite 2 of your pyro friends).
It was nice to burn some lath, but I was afraid of burning down the house when the pyros decided to tee pee the fire about 5 feet high. Sad thing is, it didn't even make a dent in the lath pile.
(Oh, and a funny note, if you would like 5 photos of my butt, send me an email. Marc took that photo of me on the roof, so of course, it was the only one I could use because the other 5 were zoomed in on my butt. Or if you are interested in a 38 photo photo-essay of our cat sitting around the yard trying not to get heat exhaustion, send me an email too, because he went a little nuts on that one.)
LOL! Great post. Those sun tunnels bring in so much light! I really want to put one in our kitchen or maybe our main bath some day. What direction are they "facing" on your house. The areas I want to put them of course get the least amount of sun possible so I'm not sure if they would bring in much light.
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