I'm so thrilled at the building being pretty much done! I probably should have let us put in the extra week's work this spring... Nothing left to do except move Mark into his new office, paint the roof, and paint the outside walls.

I think a good staple gun is one of the most underrated tool. Used for everything from construction to hobbies to furniture and so much more.

Glad to see your room nearing completion. I'm sure all the hard work is going to pay off this first winter of use.

Congrats.

Are you installing two layers of insulation with a vapor barrier in between? Not a good idea. Vapor barriers should only be on the inside skin of the room.

It sounds like you're right, but since we did the whole ceiling that way, I'm not going to take it down. We had to cut out lots of little pieces of insulation for the ceiling since it would have been over twice as expensive to buy the appropriate stuff (24" wide R30 instead of 15" wide R15 doubled up.) I'm sure there are lots of air gaps between those sheets of vapor barrier for moisture to waft on out --- due to the width of the insulation, we couldn't install it the right way, like we did in the walls, with the vapor barrier carefully stapled along the studs to form a real seal. If I had to do it over again, though, I'd take off the vapor barrier on the upper sheet for safety's sake.

Erich --- I even used it to touch up the underfloor insulation, which had come loose since I put it on too early. Staple guns really do make everything go smoothly!

I think I should have named this building "I made every conceivable mistake at least once". I sure have learned a lot, though!