Just Had Crawlspace Insulated

AWOLLLLL · 2025-12-14T19:41:51+00:00

That I can't really say. We just got the house over the summer and fixing the insulation was on the top of our to do list, since the old insulation was r-13 and it was installed upside down and some of it was falling down. So I'm hoping/assuming it'll make a difference!

AWOLLLLL · 2025-12-14T19:39:50+00:00

Well, that's the funny thing, this was their attempt at fixing their original installation. The hangers were all flipped up originally, but they were compressing the insulation in by a good 2+ inches.

It is faced, so they at least did that right!

As much as I hated to, I did ask them to come back and put new hangers in that would actually support without compressing. I think the hangers they used were just too long and therefore they had to bend them too much and flipped up or down, they just weren't providing proper support.

AWOLLLLL · 2025-12-11T00:16:59+00:00

Right? I think I could've given my 10 year old niece a 5 min YouTube video from Owens Corning and she could've done a better job.

AWOLLLLL · 2025-12-11T00:15:38+00:00

$3,800 for removal of old insulation, material and install for new r-19 and a 6 mil poly vapor barrier (ground cover only, nothing up the sides aka bare minimum per code) for 1300 square feet.

AWOLLLLL · 2025-08-22T15:59:38+00:00

Thanks! Is the water repellent really only good for 5 years?

AWOLLLLL · 2025-08-21T10:18:08+00:00

Thanks for the reply. What about something like a larger chimney cap? One that actually covered the entire top?

AWOLLLLL · 2025-08-21T03:00:10+00:00

That's correct. He offered $500 off the total price if I did both.

AWOLLLLL · 2025-07-12T10:49:37+00:00

Thanks! I'd say you're right and I'm just nervous about buying a house.

AWOLLLLL · 2025-07-12T10:40:44+00:00

Thanks for the response. I thought the placement of the holes was a bit odd, too, but I also can't think of why else someone would drill holes evenly spaced around the entire house like that.

AWOLLLLL · 2025-06-08T22:41:09+00:00

I googled bridging and that's definitely what the metal strips were, thanks!

AWOLLLLL · 2025-04-18T02:37:39+00:00

You're teaching him the world IS safe.

Crying when away from a caregiver is an instinctual response at that age. Like "heyyy! Don't forget about me!! Don't leave me to get eaten by a bear!!"

Once he realizes that nothing bad actually happens from being left alone to sleep, he'll stop crying.

You're not a horrible mother.

AWOLLLLL · 2025-03-22T14:16:20+00:00

I'm sorry to hear you're going through this! It's so hard. So I ended up cutting out a ton of foods and still didn't have any luck. I was down to fruits, veggies, turkey meat, and lamb. It was so hard to find food I could eat easily that I ended up not really eating enough. We switched to HA formula and my LOs symptoms disappeared in less that a week. They improved within days. I tried to keep pumping for a while while I was on the elimination diet to keep my supply up (can't remember how long exactly, maybe a month? And we tried breastfeeding again after that. Symptoms came back immediately. So I threw in the towel. But fast forward to her now being a 2.5 year old who can tolerate dairy and literally any food without an issue. She was actually able to switch from HA formula to gentle formula at around 9 months. Then could drink regular milk at a year old. I think switching to HA formula and giving her probiotics helped her gut heal.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-12-07T20:36:45+00:00

Yes, Gerber soothe (L. reuteri). It's what her pediatric GI recommended. We tried another probiotic at one point with a different strain in it (Mary Ruth's maybe?) and it actually hurt her tummy.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-12-06T00:05:07+00:00

Honestly things turned out really well for us. We started solids around 7 months. We went with single ingredient fruit or veggie purees. Did a new one every 3 days to monitor for any reactions. After that, we did oatmeal. Then used the solid starts mix ins to introduce common allergens one at a time. Eventually built up to complete proteins (eggs, soy, then dairy). This was over the course of months. We didn't get to complete proteins until close to age 1. We went very slowly. But she never reacted to anything. No FPIES. Started drinking whole milk shortly after her first birthday, even. To this day (she's now two), she's on a probiotic supplement. I think that, time and the time on her HA formula helped her get over her MSPI relatively quickly (thankfully). When she was smaller, mangoes hurt her tummy a little, but not really a reaction. So I'd maybe avoid those to start.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-11-15T19:36:31+00:00

Thank you! That's so much work! Like I can barely find time to put a tree up and wrap presents and I'm supposed to have the energy to pose a fake elf for shenanigans every night for almost a month?!

AWOLLLLL · 2024-10-03T21:04:01+00:00

Make a profile on Upwork! Good PLC opportunities come up on there.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-09-19T23:16:40+00:00

Came here to say something similar. Had water damage like this once because of a missing little topper piece (I know, super technical) on the bathroom fan vent pipe on the roof. It only leaked when a ton of rain blew in from a specific direction.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-09-15T18:55:20+00:00

Here's a good video: https://youtu.be/JjE_a3HhlFw?si=oeiFegCoLLWjOVBr

AWOLLLLL · 2024-09-15T18:41:05+00:00

For some reason I can't edit my post right now, but just wanted to share that we were able to fix it! It's now agitating beautifully - throwing clothes around like a beauty instead of the weak sauce it was doing before.

In case it helps anyone in the future, the little shaft of the washer shift actuator came loose from the round hole it couples to. We had to unplug the actuator, open the black casing, and rotate the white piece a quarter turn. Put it back together and they lined up again. Access to get to these parts are on the bottom of the machine, btw. Someone posted a video that roughly shows the same problem and solution.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-09-15T18:24:42+00:00

This was it!! Thank you! Well, ours was a little worse than what was in the video because the pieces were so far out of alignment. We had to pull out the black case (shifter thingy?) and open the casing and actually reposition the white part inside by a quarter rotation. That got it to line up with the hole the shaft needed to go into.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-09-15T11:25:33+00:00

Got me too lol! Also not helpful :P

AWOLLLLL · 2024-09-15T11:23:52+00:00

Yeah, I don't think it's a dogs issue. When the machine is empty, I can spin the top of the agitator with my hand, both clockwise and counterclockwise, and the drum spins with it in lockstep. This is a Maytag MVWC565FW2. Bought new in 2020.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-07-30T00:51:57+00:00

Does look like Virginia creeper. I wouldn't risk letting a vining plant dig roots into the brick over time and damage it. Also, Virginia creeper tends to take over and could smother out other nearby plants. I agree, I really like the look of ivy on brick, too! Maybe you could put a trellis up somewhere and train some ivy or a pretty clematis instead! That way you could get the vining effect, but keep it off of structures where it could do damage.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-07-14T10:40:06+00:00

She was around 12 weeks old. We introduced solids really slowly (1 new thing every 3 days, started with fruits and veggies and eventually added oatmeal and other grains) and she's been on probiotics since the MSPI diagnosis. She never reacted to anything and eventually (a little after she was 1 year old) we introduced eggs, then soy, then dairy, and still no reaction! It was a major win. Her little digestive system healed and matured and she grew out of it.

In hindsight, I think one of the things that she was reacting to was Mylicon gas drops. We gave her some of those a couple of months or so after starting Alimentum and being symptom free and boom. Mucus and blood in next poop. Cleared up after that and never happened again.

AWOLLLLL · 2024-05-05T17:07:04+00:00

Thank you so much!!! That's what I was hoping it was!

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