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Sadly, I need the money too badly to pop it open and use it for my first time...pop my mega foam Cherry.

I was using up my Adams Car Shampoo first, and I'm almost out of it, but maybe another 2 washes. I supplement my bucket with some turtle wax stuff that works okay, and use car shampoo in the foam cannon. It's works alright, but was really excited for that Mega Foam experience.

And unfortunately, Florida's unemployment program is so busted on purpose, and they left the website broken for the entire long weekend, I have no idea if or when I will ever get any money being unemployed. I'm trying my best to game the AI application process but so far no luck, really hoping I can get some under the table details or something to hold me over

So I need help in the form of generous pockets, or more internet friendly advice in the form of something that will give me anywhere near the suds for a lot less money. And I'm talking about the large gallon of it because its literally half price...when I had some cash in my account a couple weeks ago, it didn't even occur to me to pay for the small squeeze bottle for twice the cost per ounce....but I'm after something that is under $30 that gives me decent foam, and more importantly the cost per ounce is closer to the .44 mark.

Like I said, economically, it's a serious bummer, but I could really use the extra $20.

Edit: I am bad with money, sure, but I've never been concerned with how much is coming out of my account on the first of the month, or I wouldn't have bought it to begin with. But I need another option as I need it on hand for neighbors vehicles when they ask to have it done, as they do from time to time. Thats just some quick cash under the table, it won't hold me over more than a week. It's not like it justifies the cost of the Mega Foam with where my account sits

My whole house in 24inch O.C. Walls, trusses, joists.

I did my attic with R13 16Inch batts and had to cut half of them in half and randomly try to stuff them together and it was SO time consuming and annoying...just curious if anyone knows how i find this stuff? Because my bathrooms are on exterior walls and they are DYING lol. 78 degrees at night, when it's 73 in the rest of the house.

There are just specific spots I need batts, the perimeter most importantly, as last hurricane blew away all our blown in insulation.

Also, I have a soffit and ridge vent system, there were foam baffles up before, they were torn and dirty and mostly fallen...what brand do you recommend to replace them with? And I need to figure out exactly how far down I place them into the soffit area, as one side of the home I can reach my hand between the roof and the block wall , and other parts there's hardly any daylight, let alone room for my fingers.

I have a stick thing that was highly recommended on amazon. Then I also just check the Hayward box on the wall, and do one of those instant-read calibrations once a month. And I also take it to the pool store.

My wall box is always a couple hundred higher than both the store and the stick thing I bought.

Which leads to a follow up question...do I need the taylor test kit that has the salt or can I save a TON of money and get the k-2006 without the salt stuff, and trust sorta trust that wall box?

So today I took my grandmas car to get a tire repair done, she broke her hip but we need to use her large SUV to get her back n forth to P.T. , sedan isn't ideal for broken hips.

Anyway, decided to bring it back to my place and detail it to about perfection (impossible, she hits too much stuff lmao).

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I finished the exterior and was already near death, but had the entire interior to do, and it wasn't great. Not bad, not good.

I am in Florida, and it's already lethally hot out. I had shade for most of the time, until I started on the interior vacuuming.

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The wide brim hat I use was obviously quite annoying to maneuver inside the vehicle, so that came off, but it doesn't stop sweat, anyway, just blocks sun.

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So, I had sweat dripping from every part of my body, and long sleeves help when there's air movement and you aren't sweating actual buckets, but my shirt was seemingly making it worse. I didn't know how to keep sweat from constantly getting on everything...even a totally unaware brush against something from my shorts and it left a salty, sweaty spot a few minutes later....I'm sitting there like " I already cleaned that door off, there was no giant white spot."

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Anyway, I figure there are likely some pretty uppity customers who don't want you to drop your sweat in their vehicle, either, and I was curious how to combat this without just like....lining your head and arms in sweat bands lol.

Evening.

So currently, I have blown cellulose that has been matted and compacted in the accessible areas of my attic. Over the cathederal ceiling, there appears to be about an R-30 or better fiberglass, Faced batts. So that is nice, but I imagine I don't even touch R-15 in the entire outside several feet of the home with the blow in stuff.

In the other areas with blown cellulose, it barely covers the 24" on center, 2x4 framing in most spots. I plan to remove this entirely.

There was also a Radiant barrier, super cheap thin stuff that has almost entirely collapsed and crumbling apart and will be removed; as well as the ancient foam baffles...those are almost all removed as they're torn or already just laying on the floor much like the radiant barrier.

I've got a TON of cleanup work to do from very cheap install methods the first time around, but what I'm hoping to accomplish, is a very wind/hurricane-proof approach for this next time.

I planned to get the Home Depot's Ado Provent product for the rafter vents. If there's another, smarter or more effective product, please let me know.

After getting those in, I planned to air-seal everything I could readily access.... it's a split attic and much of it is VERY poor access otherwise, so this can only be done to about ~50% efficiency is my estimate. Product recommendations for foam? I've just used Great Stuff red and yellow bottles for the other areas i've messed with.

And this is the important bit, because I really need to save money after this disaster attic space:

My idea was to do a Rockwool R13/15 batt for the first layer, between my joists. They're moisture resistant, more dense so help cut down on noise, and of course will help them stay firmly in place along the outer edges near the soffits when inevitable wind gets pushed through.

My next layer was going to be UNfaced Fiberglass R-30 Batts. This gives me an INSANE savings, instead of cross layering mineral wool. Plus, if I used mineral wool like R30 between the joists, I'm sort of concerned about the weight of them with how sketchy the rest of the home was built lol. Really don't want my roof coming down. But an R13 or R15, whatever it comes in, shouldn't pose an issue I don't think!

Does this sound like a wise approach, unnecessary, or any part that's incorrect altogether? Should I do the fiberglass first, and rockwool second? Idk

So, yeah. Called her up to let her know I'm out of a job, and she had a question about something I left outside by the shed, then it quickly deteriorated Into every small thing I do wrong or haven't been able to complete, mostly because of our schedule but she doesn't care about that, she just thinks it should be done.

Could barely get a word in aside from defending myself, definitely didn't seem like the right time to tell her about it.

What I don't want right now is for her to pile on and continue reminding me how useless and burdensome I am to have around, then let her know I can no longer financially contribute for a hot minute.

Wondering if anyone has a dedicated washing machine in their garage or something, separate from their household washer. My wife uses ALL kinds of stuff in that washer, and it's getting up there in years so I'msure it has untold amounts of filth inside. Also used to use the tide pods. I never ate them though, was just for clothes.

 Anyway I've been thinking about buying one, because these towels are just crazy expensive and I also don't like combining all these chemicals with my toddlers clothing, who is pretty sensitive to foreign chemicals. The less stuff I throw in the main wash, the better is my thinking.

But, I also don't know where I'd put it, sort out what size I'd need, and if anyone has good/terrible experiences or anything with trying this out in their garage or shed or wherever.

I am in Southern Florida

This isn't enough, correct ? I recently crawled in my attic because I accidentally cut the wrong coax cable and needed to replace it

I was not prepared at all to see most of the space over my room and bathroom without any insulation, let alone with a meaningful depth of coverage. I am far too poor to do this properly. I had some leftover r13 fiberglass batts from my attempt at cooling my garage area....I don't think it worked lol....and I threw those into the empty places I could fit my fatass. Then I Great Foamed around exhaust fan opening because there was lots of daylight, and the top plate...anything else that looked like it had a gap as well. There were some weird cuts, multiple out of place framing boards I went around just in case, air vents I could reach, electrical boxes.

But there are many other areas that seem problematic...after finding my first exhaust fan without a hose running to the soffit, I assume the other one was exactly the same. So I started crawling around inspecting more of my attic.

There is reflective paper lining the entirety of the attic, but has fallen down on top almost everywhere, and the rest that is hanging on is tattered and super dirty. Should I remove all of it, or what I can reach anyway? Or is it not hurting anything.

There were those foamy type baffles installed at some point, most have broken off or...just...broken down lol. I couldn't see most of the remains for the others so I presume they're in my soffit.

When I had the bathroom exhaust fans replaced, the guy isn't to blame for the next part because that isn't his job, but there was a ton of insulation removed from around the vents...like a 12"*12" area with nothing at all, so either he pushed it aside and didn't try to pull it back, or it was always just ...not covered/blown away.

Anyway, while redoing the coax cable by my master bath, I noticed the hose just sits 2ft away from the exhaust vent, on top of some blown in insulation. So I did fix that up and run 3" to my soffit.

Today, almost a month later, I did the other bathroom exhaust. Same thing there....tons of daylight around the fan, much much insulation everywhere I could see except directly above my peak living room area...there's still fiberglass batts there.

None of the insulation was above the actual 2x4s except in certain, non specific spots. Just seemed randomly heaped.

And the blown in isn't light and fluffy....most of it is dirty, I expect that in an attic, but I could remove chunks of it and had to scrape it away with some force, around the light box and vents, to foam around them.

The rest of it seems to be mostly the same condition. Is that average or needs redone?

And, most importantly, can I simply just build one of those giant foam walls between my living area and my garage? Garage easily hits 140 in the summer and there's NO ridge vent above the garage area, only about 10ft over the living area attic/roofline.

The rest of my roof has the same weird ridge vent layout...only like half the roofline done instead of most of the roofline.

I'm shaking, btw, from being in the attic for 2 hours this morning. Lol.

Poorly designed, lazy, poorly ventilated attics, are the work of devil worshippers