Future Bedroom Deconstruction - Part 9 - A trip to the marshmallow kingdom!

Okee dokee... It's been a little while. Hopefully we'll be back to a more normal updating schedule now that things have settled down a bit. We moved into the house in September and had cut back on our house-work quite a bit since then. Things are picking back up again so it's time to get back to work! So without further delay, to the marshmallow kingdom we go!
 
So we actually did this work this past summer when it was in the 90's in Seattle, which is not normal at all... And most unpleasant for this particular work. We donned our special marshmallow suits to prepare for the journey!


 
After getting all suited up, time to jump on in! One of the main goals of the future bedroom is to upgrade the insulation effeciency. Currently, the walls varried in their R values from R-5 to R-15 depending on which part of the room they were in. The ceilings are R-19. Our plan is to double the wall thickness and add an additional layer of R-15 for a total of R-30 in the walls and add a 2" rigid foam insulation to the ceiling to get an R-34 value there. That's still not even to code for new construction here in Seattle, but the ceiling is already pretty low and we can't add any insulation on top of what's there so all we can do is add down. The 2" foam is the most bang for the buck as far as R value per inch of insulation...
 
Here's the before. Everything all nice and tidy and kraft paper backed...

 
So onwards we go. We first removed all the old insulation, which was a mixture of kraft-backed fiberglass and some older stuff that I don't know what it was, but couldn't have provided much insulating value...
 
Some of that older stuff wasn't in the best condition.

 
Cotton candy-land!

 
We removed all the kraft paper first. We'll then take out the insulation itself ond reuse it in interior walls, but we needed to remove it to get to the current electrical and put in our future electrical!
 

 
We then unrolled the insulation right out of the walls and into large garbage bags for later use. After an uncomfortable not-too-long, we had the walls bare!
 

 

 
Stay tuned... Up next we start framing! Woohoo!