Insulating against noisy showers

Thanks to ANZAC Day, which is a public holiday falling on Wednesday this year, we've had an extended long weekend which has enabled tremendous progress inside the house. The lounge walls are lined down 2 sides.

It's dark in the photo because this was taken at the end of our work day at about 5.15pm. We're moving on to May and it gets dark by about 6.30pm. The Gib is all different colours: blue is the Braceline, white is ordinary and green is Aqualine for use in the bathroom and kitchen. The kitchen is lined also.

We've also started scraping back the layers and layers of paint on the scotia (up the ladder). There's so many layers some of it comes off like a thick sheet of plastic. It's hard work scraping. Useless to sand. We've opted for heat gun. We'll only need to do this in this one area. Throughout the rest of the house a light sand will suffice.

The balance of the Braceline went up in the third bedroom. In this photo can be seen green insulation in the wall between the bathroom and the bedroom. These are Noise batts.

The noise batts insulate and cut the sound of the singing in the shower. They go in the walls and in the ceiling of the bathroom and over the laundry also to cut the sounds travelling to the rest of the house via the ceiling cavity. The bathroom is almost totally lined, walls and ceiling, and insulated.

Back to our paying jobs for a couple of days now and then back into the building on the weekend.