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Continued Spray Foam Application

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DIY Spray Foam Insulation To Lower Energy Bill

What happens here

The host continues the spray foam application across different sections of the cabin's interior. He works along the sloped walls, carefully filling the cavities between the wooden studs. The process involves repeated spraying, allowing the foam to expand and cure, ensuring complete coverage and air sealing across the entire area of the rim joists and sloped roof/wall sections.

Goal: The host systematically applies spray foam to various sections of the sloped walls, covering the entire perimeter of the A-frame cabin's interior framing.

Tools and materials

  • Protective Gear (Tyvek suit
  • respirator
  • goggles
  • gloves)
  • Spray Foam Gun/Hoses
  • Stepladder

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know if they're coming back from these [Music] all right so it's a 7-hour work day um I got five out of the 10 kits put up already uh so the upstairs the downstairs all is done all I have left is the roof itself down at the main voled part I'll show you obviously I'm going to need to come up with some kind of solution to get up higher with those tanks um so basically the last of the five tanks are going to be for this middle section which I think I'm going to have more than enough my body's aching I'm I feel like I'm Tarzan hanging off this ladder H hopefully tomorrow I can wrap that part down and then it's the bat inflation [Music] okay it's the next day this is the stuff I was dreading the very top from top to bottom I think we're sitting at 26 ft uh these are 32t long Rafters but they're angled obviously so my 12T ladder is all maxed out the solution I came up with is I'm going to use my Roofing ladder uh and I put Roofing stabilizers because the rails don't sit between the rafters perfectly so that'll just keep me safe got it secure down below and then I made a little DIY little hobo looking uh scaffolding and so the idea there is 12 ft tall is going to give me reach with another 15 with my hose and so what I'll do is I'll do the top section drop my ladder and then move over and shimmy everything around uh this is really sketchy this thing is wobbly I don't have enough OSB to secure it all the way around but I think if we're careful we should be fine and if we're not those things fall down and there's foam all over the place that's Cowboy [Music] [Applause] Up we're finally done spraying 2 and 1/2 days 2800 square ft on the Roof oh man this insulation stuff is serious so I got to catch my breath uh first of all no casualties I hate ladders I hate going up that high but we played it safe second of all this is there's two types of foam insulations there's closed cell installation and open cell and my basic understanding of it is open cell they'll have a little holes pointed through it closed cells they're nice and full if you have open cell uh insulation you have to use a vapor barrier on top that's per manufacturer if you have closed cell that's what we're using here that is not required to have a vapor barrier on top because it acts as a vapor barrier so we're looking good on that I'm going to catch my breath grab a little something te Eed and then we'll start putting in our bat insulation so excited there are supposed to be eight pieces in this roll…

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