Andrew, I was quite honored to have earned a visit from you!!! And I spent a long while thinking about how cool your parents farm house must have been, and therefore how cool they must be. But the mice behind the panels sure gave me pause!
I also visited your thread as a result of you visiting mine and realized I had missed quite a few chapters. I don't know about this lady in your life, I wasn't following for a while, but I will say this-- a lot of us ended up in our MLC mess because we thought this was how things were, or that we shouldn't trust our guts. I think we have to start trusting our guts. Hurting someone is painful, and I am very sorry for her if she loves you and will be hurt. But for myself I have found that part of my healing was learning to trust my gut. If I had done that long ago, I would not have married my H to begin with. (I don't regret it exactly, glad for my kids and how this brought me to faith. But I can see that I didn't trust my gut, and that I still struggle to.)
Meanwhile, DnJ, I did study this last post from you and did a bunch of research, found a company called Alpine something or other and had a long call with them to get all the skinny. I think I am gonna get one unit for two of the bedrooms to start and do the temporary insulation and see how it goes. I am in a race against the clock, as my current renters leave soon and I have just one weekend before the next ones come to try to do everything. And my beekeper friend told me that the bees are packing the hive with propolis, which means BAD WINTER COMING.
Yes, I use the cabin all year. Folks rent it all year, as it is gorgeous there in every season and we are near decent skiing, at least by the standards of my state.
You assume that the interior is finished. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
OK, well I guess so, in a rustic cabin way. I sure wish I could show you some photos!
Basement -- we -- wait a second -- I! I! Just me! I have a real basement under the bedrooms and then under the main living space it is a crawl space and was supposedly insulated when we put in a foundation but I don't know how well they did it. Basement is not heated, but I want to make this basement a living space, it is otherwise the stupidest waste of money and represents some very bad decisions from my past with H. (We put it in, that was before my years of reading about houses and eco stuff.) So that is my next question -- it is very damp down there, and freezing. It doesn't freeze actually but it's cold. I have my washer/dryer down there too. One side is wet, the side that is more underground with no window. The other side faces a slope and that side I could dig out a little and either have a walk-out or a much bigger window than the current tiny ones.
I want to start by getting a dehumidifier, and I want to order it this week, so I need your advice! (And Andrew or anyone else who wants to chime in!) What should i buy? I want something that doesn't require a lot of attention because I have renters there a lot of the time. I want the basement to be dry so I can store stuff down there without it getting moldy -- right now I can't even store wood down there. And then once I get it more dry, I can start thinking about working on turning it into a living space with heat. I don't think I can think of insulating the walls til it's dry, right? I can't even put up framing down there, it will mold, won't it? Likewise a subfloor. I want to do this but I need to address the dampness. So can you give me a DnJ tutorial? I can post it on our youtube channel and we can monetize it.
roofing metal around your house? Doesn't that look kinda... not charming? Or what do you mean?
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I believe I will see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage. Be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.
