{"id":22233,"date":"2010-12-10T19:41:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T03:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=10598"},"modified":"2016-09-16T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:21:39","slug":"checking-out-the-loft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/checking-out-the-loft\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking Out the Loft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to check out the loft and was shocked to already see an improvement; 95% of the wall is perfectly dry and normal-coloured. Of course, the bottom part is still sodden as is the joist along the front, six inches of which got soaked. I used a scraper to get rid of the top layer of wood that is the darkest on that joist and was relieved to see damp, normal-coloured, wood appear along most of the section.<\/p>\n<p>The wall has a final layer of paneling remaining, and it is glued to styrofoam. I did some test scratches and the styrofoam looks clean. So, I tried the scraper technique on the paneling and got the same result as on the joist. I therefore don&#8217;t think I need to replace the styrofoam insulation, just the pink stuff along the front.<\/p>\n<p>I sprayed the whole area with rubbing alcohol to kill spores and I have the dehumidifier running. I tried running both it and the heater on low on the same circuit, but failed, so I decided to just go with the dehumifier for now since it&#8217;s nice having the heater in the study so I don&#8217;t have to run the furnace. I&#8217;m debating whether to use a hair dryer on high directly on the wet, wondering if that would be silly and futile.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I&#8217;d thought to inquire about paneling when I was at the Home Hardware today. I hope I can find something smaller than a full sheet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to check out the loft and was shocked to already see an improvement; 95% of the wall is perfectly dry and normal-coloured. Of course, the bottom part is still sodden as is the joist along the front, six inches of which got soaked. I used a scraper to get rid of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,6,635,1283,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-osoyoos-bc","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}