supraBoy

I have to re do the Insulation in the attic of my home, and ive decided to do it my self as it will save some money. The problem i have come across now is that the old insulation is so old its basically broke down into large dust cluster fucks in section hence why its so dusty in my home. Does any one have a suggestion to to remove it or know of some one that does some kind of cleaning/removal service for that at a reasonable price?

all4sr's

I do insulation ALL the time in my line of work

what do you mean by "dusty"?...like, the paper backing is just really old and it's all crumbling into tiny pieces? or the insulation is so old that it's stringy/ tears into handfulls when trying to pull it??

Either way, you can use a Shope vac., take the filter out, and suck it all up, orr, before you start tearing down more(if it's not already all down), go to Home Depot, go to the Paint Section, they have rolls of plastic, buy one, lay it out in the attic and open it up, cut it to a decent size, and just lay it on there and put it in some garbage bags


If you don't want to deal with it, just let me know, i could always use some sidework.

Fabrik8

You sure you don't just have blow-in insulation?

all4sr's

Oh dang, i didn't even think about that, i though he was talking about inso. in the rafters, lol

Fabrik8

We have blow-in in our rafters.. I hate that shit, it gets everywhere.

all4sr's

like, your Cieling rafters??

if so, that's just mad dumb, ha, i had to do a Blow-In job on a 6k sq. ft. house last week.....i was ready to kill after i got done that day

Fabrik8

You go into the attic and everything is 10 inches deep with blow-in, yeah. This is the fourth place we've lived with that shit in it.

all4sr's

Thats a little excessive, lol. Yeah, for the "floor", if you will, of attics, 90% of the houses i go in are all Blow-In. You barely touch the stuff and you have a 20' dust cloud of Fiberglas

6spd z33

yeah my guess is he has that shitty cellulose blown in insulation... I don't know if they sell the Owens Corning AttiCat down here but that shit is great... Can't say i've ever seen Owens Corning down here though

supraBoy

you know what i dont know what it is i just know its gray and broken down pretty well. I suspect its the cause of why my hosue gets to dusty so quickly.