Insulationing
Last winter when the floor boards had started to freeze up in the morning and we found ourselves having to put on fuzzy skates just to get to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee to start our day, Sweetie and I decided that instead of spending all that time with the laces we’d find somebody to put a little more insulation in the double wide. Since the doublewide doesn’t have a basement but a crawlspace, I have never taken it upon myself to wriggle under there due to late onset claustrophobia, discovered after getting stuck in a decking installation accident—trapped between the two-by-tens and dust for the better part of an hour after running out some forgotten Romex for an outdoor outlet. We had up to that point, lived under the missinformative idea that while the insulation under the house was clearly not up to the task, there was some degree of insulation, no doubt old and weather-beaten, lodged between the floorboards of our new home. While Tacoma has never been known for its harsh wi...