Have active practitioners noticed anything between the rafters?
Yes, I've frequently come into contact with the secret insulation material, the special combination of which is now apparently lost in time - the mysterious mixture of raccoon and squirrel poop that was spread between ceiling framing members...

Twybil


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Subject: Re: [BP] The Sustainability of the Puritan way

In a message dated 12/9/2007 8:21:14 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, Leland writes:
"Ševen a modest house required at least twelve tons of woodŠ..the average
seventeenth-century New England house consumed fifteen cords, or 1,920
cubic feet, of wood per year, meaning that a town of two hundred homes
depended on the deforestation of as many as seventy-five acres per year."

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
 
And Ruth writes "that's about right".
 
So our forebearers had every reason to insulate their houses - even more than we! - whether by double-glazing, hollow deer-hair, recycled corn cobs, or whatever.  Yet I never see any reference to such measures.  Have active practitioners noticed anything between the rafters?
 
Christopher



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