Two heads, or even three, are better than one

Above is a picture of Juliana and our daughter Luna. Juliana is using her brain power to figure out some of the math that was boggling my mind. Luna is helping. It's a good thing she ran through the inner liner calculations because I almost ordered 30 fewer square yards than we need.

The calculations that Juliana did also gave us an estimate of the amount of insulation material we will need. I spent most of the evening pouring over shopping results for for "Reflectix" double bubble double reflective insulation rolls and converting the varying sizes to determine the best price. At some point my thoughts turned towards wishing that someone made a generic version of the product but I had seen nothing about one. A quarter second google search later I had discovered www.insulation4less.com and a line of insulation products from the maker "Prodex." Prodex makes a double bubble double reflective insulation product that compares almost to a T with reflectix performance ratings. Prodex also only costs 1/2 as much as the most discounted rolls of Reflectix I could find. In addition Prodex also makes a "Total" insulation product that is supposed to last much longer than the foil bubble wrap insulators and has won awards for the best metal structure insulator. I even found a few reviews from people who have used it in their yurt and this stuff sounds amazing. The Total insulation also costs about $100 less than the best reflectix price I could find.

We also may have found a nice piece of property. It's just under an acre of land with a stream and lots of flat area for building. It is sandwiched between two wooded hills and will probably look amazing in the spring. It has an old single wide trailer on it that we could remodel to be a guest house/wood shop with a log cabin feel. We will be traveling down to visit family mid March and will make a day trip out of looking at the property and it's surrounding area.