I know it's been a few months since we posted, but that doesn't mean we haven't been working on the house. As most of you know, the work is never done, the projects just keep coming, and upon the completion of each we feel better and better!

This project isn't as glamorous as some from the past, but probably one of the most important and in the long run the most beneficial. We have long since known that our insulation circa 1965 needed to be bolstered, but just how to do it was the looming question. As Larry will testify, there is not much room in our attic and it is a very difficult to do anything up there.

We decided to use the eco-friendly blow-in insulation for a number of reasons, mainly because we could do it ourselves, it doesn't itch, and there is just enough room for a human body and the hose to fit in the attic.

The City of Gainesville encourages us to reduce our energy use (they apparently feel bad that our electric bills run near $600 in the summer!) and gives rebates for home projects that will help achieve that goal. Normally, they will rebate .125 cents per square foot of insulation installed, but they ran a promo that doubled it to .25 cents for a limited time. We jumped on that offer and after all was said and done, not counting the body aches and pains for two days this project trickled down to this:

$335.92 1300 sq ft of insulation 36 bags (w/a 10% off coupon)

40.00 machine rental to blow the insulation

-40.00 free machine rental for buying 20+ bags of insulation

-325.00 .25 per sq ft rebate from the city

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$ 10.92 OUR COST!!

Now I don't like to brag, but I am pretty proud of this project cost! It makes me want to research all the rebatable projects we can do and get crackin'...right after the bruises and muscles aches go away! :)