43F and sunny @ 11:00, heading up to around 57F for the day's high. The nearby Clinton LWS reports this morning's low there was 29.6F.
Decent progress inside yesterday.
Old water heater was fully drained so got it moved outside without making a mess on the carpet. That will need to get moved over to the barn until I can collect up enough scrap metal to make a trip to the recycler. Probably won't happen until Spring.
Last panel of 2" foam board for the south wall in the utility room measured and cut down.
Moved a 4 x 8 sheet of 1" polyisocyanate foam board back into the utility room. Need to measure and cut a piece off that for the area above the foam board mentioned above, there is HVAC duct work in the way and 2" foam board will not fit.
Electrical box and pressure switch for the well relocated further right on the board they were originally mounted on, then that board was trimmed with the multi tool so that a 4 x 8 sheet of 2" foam can be put up on the wall.
Checked dry fit of the 4 x 8 panel, board on the wall still needs about an inch trimmed off. Will be the first panel of foam board on the west wall.
Once that panel is glued up and in place, I can stud in a 4' section so the electrical box and pressure switch can be relocated to the stud wall, freeing up another section of the west wall for more foam board.
Hit the bottoms of the concrete foundation walls with wire brush to knock off the efflorescence and then vacuumed that up, along with the walls themselves.
Then hit the wall bottom with some plain water and a scrub brush.
After that started removing the salt and brine from the softener brine tank, got one and half 5 gallon buckets of clean salt that can be used when the softener is back up and running and about 1 1/2 gallons of dirty salt from the bottom of the brine tank which will get used as deicer on the entryway and drive this winter.
All 3 buckets are sitting on the floor under a furnace register so the water will evaporate and add some humidity to the air while the heat is running.
Baffle for brine tank rinsed off. Brine tank still needs washed out before being put back in service, don't know that that has ever been done.
Ten rolls of kraft-faced R-11 insulation moved from utility room to the family room.
Now empty brine tank relocated to where the rolls of insulation were in the utility room.
Had some loose sections of R-11 (not full roll), cut a bunch of 9 1/2" pieces off that to add to R-10 that is sitting on top of the sill plate between the floor joists.
Placed order for all 'scripts to be refilled, Woman picked those up along with one of Her's for the glaucoma. Now if She will just take it ...
Woman has been making a bunch of noise about "weeding", "cleaning up the garden", and "cleaning up the front" (implication being that I should be involved in all of it) ... but so far hasn't made it out there yesterday or today.
What I have on the agenda today is to 1. move that old water heater over to the barn, 2. grab a bunch of 2 x 4 x 8's and bring them over to the garage where they will get cut to length for the stud walls in the utility room.
Since the Sun is out might start cutting some of the welded wire fencing for the cages for the arborvitaes.
Might try getting the next post for the second H-brace on the southeast corner post set and braced later.
Will see how warm it feels out there.
Beyond that, just see what else comes up.
Hope everyone is having a decent Sunday ...
