mystery of the $1500 insulation solved
got the next (last?) big delivery from home depot today. this is the $1500 of insulation i ordered, the greenboard for the bathroom, and a screen door for our front door.
while the guy was there i counted everything to make sure i got what i ordered, which was 66 batts. i counted 11 packages of 6, so all was cool. for some reason it seemed like more insulation than that, but i figured i must've just underestimated the size of a rolled-up batt of insulation.
after the guy left i started to move things into the basement. i grabbed one of the packages of 6 thinking, "this is only 6 batts of insulation, so it'll be really light". boy was i wrong. this thing weighed quite a bit and it took both stacey and me to carry it into the house. at this point i knew something was wrong. i proceeded to open the plastic wrapping on the package and pulled out one of the rolls only to find it had been compressed to about 1/3 of its size for the wrapping. then i looked and found out that each of these rolls contains not 1, but 9 batts. that means instead of 66 batts i now have 594. that's probably about enough to insulate my entire house twice over.
i went back to home depot and explained that nowhere in their computer or printed literature does it say that there are 9 batts to a roll, nor did the guy who placed the order for me figure this out, nor did the owens corning people point this out during any of the 3 conversations we had with them prior to placing the order. since this obviously wasn't my fault, home depot is going to come take back the excess on monday and refund me for that portion.
so in the end, the reason this cost 9x as much as the non-special-order stuff is because there was 9x as much. turns out the price for the quantity i actually need is nearly the same as the same quantity of the faced insulation. now i'll have money to blow on kick-ass audio cabling! woohoo!
in other news, i started ripping out a couple of bricks from the back wall to drill a hole for the bathroom exhaust fan vent pipe. i've also started doing some drywall out in the garage and will start on the bathroom as soon as i get the vent pipe fully installed.
Comments
For some reason, throughout that whole conversation we had at Home Depot about bricks earlier, I thought you were talking about the retaining wall in the back but for some reason were saying "brick" instead of "stone." The fact that you're working on the bathroom makes so much more sense. I are smart.
Posted by: Stacey | October 14, 2006 04:27 PM
shit. that reminds me. i totally forgot to try and make at least a feeble attempt to reinforce the part of the retaining wall that's falling apart. the heavy rain we got the other day knocked a few more stones loose.
no, i don't know why i'm posting this here when you're sitting right next to me.
Posted by: Len | October 14, 2006 05:34 PM
Cheer up. I give it even odds that when my family is here next week, Dad will have a brilliant engineering solution to the retaining wall problem.
I am typing to you while we have an actual conversation. I win for lameness.
Posted by: Stacey | October 14, 2006 06:42 PM
no i win for lameness. i'm speaking to you the same exact thing thing i'm typing right now.
Posted by: Len | October 14, 2006 06:44 PM
You are lamz0r. What should we have for dinner? Chinese? Uncle Sam's? Ali Baba?
Posted by: Stacey | October 14, 2006 06:45 PM
Does Uncle Sam's have any vegetarian options? If not, can you please campaign for them to make some?
Posted by: William | October 15, 2006 05:42 PM
actually, they have 5 vegetarian subs: http://www.wheeldeliver.net/menus/UncleSams.pdf
Posted by: Len | October 15, 2006 06:04 PM
Where by "5" you mean "6"? Though I don't understand why they are numbered 1-5 and then 44. The ways of Uncle Sam are mysterious.
Now I want Sam's for dinner and they closed 7 minutes ago. Damn you!
Posted by: Stacey | October 15, 2006 06:08 PM
dude, I'm soooo there. We're coming to Pgh sometime between christmas and new years
Posted by: William | October 15, 2006 06:22 PM