office drama

This is a picture of the heated flooring I just put in my office. What a lot of work this office is to build, it didn't seem like a big deal at first, frame the walls in an extra 4", add some insulation, and prove to myself that I can drywall, since I am teaching 8 people to drywall in May. Well then came the window, and a frame around that, had to get spray foam for the window edges. The extra window frame made me short on 2x4s so I had to get more. Then wiring, and insulation. I added a vapor barrier, and I couldn't find the stapler to staple that up.
I got some left over pot lights from the job I was on so I had to cut those in and wire them up, it is a huge deal to crawl up into the attic to get the lights in.
I thought it would be a good idea to make the attic extra thick insulation, and you can buy bails of the blow in stuff. Thought that would be a great idea, I could open that compressed bail of fluffies up in the attic, watch it all poof out and rake it in level. According to the bails I got enough to make the insulation 18" thick in that room. Well I pack them up there, crawling through the rest of the barn attic to get to the back room I made, dragging these bails one by one, I got 4 of them. I even crawled back out to grab the rake and drag it back there. I slice the first bag of insulation open and it didn't expand at all. I had just installed some 15 bags of pink insulation, and it expands to 3 or 4 times its size with the first strike of the knife. I tried clawing some of this 'blow in' insulation off the brick, and it did not want to come off. I fantasized for a moment about having a big industrial chipper aimed into the attic, that I could just drop bails into, and then I clawed the 4 bails apart, with cold fingers. It took hours, and made a tremendous amount of dust. In the end my 18" only worked out to be 8", because it wasn't fluffed out. Next time I will definitely rent the machine for 'blowing in' the insulation.
I was ready to board the warm room at that point, with a thermostat controlling a small 120v heater, I was in a controlled environment. I forgot about one receptacle, and made a big bubble in the drywall that was later easily patched up with the mud. After it was boarded I put all the light switches and plugs in so I could work in there without trouble lights at night. I taped the seems, mudded, sanded, muded, sanded, and mudded one more time with a final sanding. Primed the walls, and had an argument with Michelle over what color I should paint the walls. I wanted it to be like an electric blue, but that didn't go with my furniture, and I had 5 gallons of this grey from the bar foreclosure. She said grey was wrong and I should do it a green tope type color. I said no way. I opened the bucket of paint, dumped it in the roller tray and rolled it on and had a moment of disbelief when my walls were a green tope color. Then I remembered I had a half dozen 1/4 full gallons of neutral colors that I had dumped into this grey, because 1/4 gallons are good for nothing and dry up in no time. I figured grey was a powerful color and it wouldn't change much. Well it was a brilliant color, I couldn't be more happy with it, but it doesn't photograph well.
Wile I was in town I checked out my heating options, and I really wanted a small mat for under my desk, cause my feet frequently get cold, probably my boots soaking up water, and cold steel toes. I ended up leaving there with the biggest 120v heated floor cable, 500 watts and 100' long. I precisely cut sheets of OSB to fit this 100' cable in the 1" gaps through the floor, only to find that it is actually longer than that, because there is apx 4' of cold cable on each end. so I had to add a litle section of pathway for the extra cable. Once it was stapled down the second time, I grouted it in with tile grout, which I had never used before, and don't like very much. I had 25kg of grout and I ran out with about 16' of heated wire left to grout. So I called it a night and now this morning the local hardware store is closed for some reason, so I am going to wait for Ron to come home and bum bout 10kg of grout off him, and finnish that job so that I can put underlay down, and laminate flooring. Then I still need to wire internet out there, and do all the trim. The door will have to come off and be cut down now since the floor was raised 3/8 of an inch with the heat. I have to make some shelving for all the latex paint and cordless drills, and anything else that we don't want in our house, and doesn't like being frozen. Hopefully I can get the flooring down and the desk back in for tonight.