I crawled down the new catwalk this morning, dragging my shopvac and my rake, to clean the old insulation out of the final corner.
As I was wedged into that tiny space, raking out the last of it, I smelled the peppery smell of ants. "Oh, great!" I thought, but I kept at it because I was totally covered with boots, long pants, long sleeved turtleneck shirt, long gloves, hat, and dust mask. I stuffed the insulation into a bag as quickly as I could and vacuumed up the leftover bits. Then I crawled out and got some bug poison and sprayed it where they were.
Thank goodness Handyman called me to morning tea shortly after that!
You might wonder why we are removing all the old insulation. First off, it had served as a latrine for rats, possums, and who knows what for decades and it smelled horrible.
Second, it was filthy and dusty, and we need to do wiring and install air conditioning ducts in the attic, and we didn't want to work on top of that dirty mess.
In better news, we got our new electrical panel today. Ain't it a beauty?
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