I need to insulate the light shafts for my skylights, as they’re currently bare wallboard. How should I apply the fiberglass on the outside? How do I handle the corners?
In older homes like these, the main remodeling goal is often a more welcoming, more social, and more functional kitchen.
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Use solid foam sheets, cut to fit and install with duct tape
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Duct tape? Lost your foam gun?
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Joe H
Cheapest place on the planet for foam-> http://www.icfpro.com/supplies.htm
Gotta use something to hold while the foam cures!
Besides, I have to use a minimum of two hundred feet per year to maintain my membership in the Duct Tape Engineers of America Society..
Excellence is its own reward!
Thanks, guys.
Now I just have to figure out how to get the foam into the attic...
Wait a minute, that isn't "Piffin Putty!"
Erich
Piffin Putty is much more expensive.
Of course it must be - it is strong enough to hold the earth in orbit..
Excellence is its own reward!
Let me get this straight, the grand poohba is suggesting using duct tape as a perminent way to secure something?
berry berry interesting.
so it's either the beer I was enjoying or the merlot you were, but I is cornfused. :)
Doesn't seem your style
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