[Greenbuilding] sucking up loose fill FG insulation

[Reuben Deumling]

Beautiful, Rob. I always appreciate your no-nonsense, seat of pants
solutions. I crawled into the attic for real to get a sense of the
situation and discovered that there is old dusty cellulose underneath the
fluffy white clouds of fiberglass. Ugh. I'm really hoping the contractor
returns my call after the holiday tomorrow.

On the reuse question, I have completely switched over on my projects to
dense fill cellulose so have no experience with these fluffy white clouds.
Do folks blow loose bits of fiberglass into walls? Since I would love not
to lose this stuff I'm wondering it it is conceivable that one could reuse
this (by stuffing it into walls by hand since my blower does not like the
stray nail or mouse dentures that might get sucked up with the already once
deployed stuff)?

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 9:31 AM, RT via Greenbuilding <
greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org> wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 12:30:56 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] sucking up loose fill FG insulation
>  Reuben;
>
>  Spouting off of the top of my head rather than from actual experience,
> I'd say
>
> "Nix the large, single-use plast-eccchhh! bags and make a temporary bag
> out of a suitably sized tarp by folding the edges of the tarp over a stick
> (ie 1x2 or 1x3) and using spring clamps to hold the bag shut and then fit
> the bag over the removed head of the shop vac and fill the tarpbag directly.
>
> When all sucked up, give the inside of the bag a squirt with your choice
> of liquid to wet down the insulation and then compact the contents as much
> as you can to make a small brick of glass fibre to be put into your blue
> box for recycling  -- or maybe you re-use the fibres to build yourself a
> canoe ?-- rinse off the tarp and  put back from whence it came"
>
> Sounds like it should do the trick. Right ?
>
> On Sun, 04 Sep 2016 10:50:11 -0400, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> The fluffy stuff *is* I think under all circumstances going to end up in
> large plastic bags to be disposed of.
>
> --
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> Rob Tom . . . T60BOM
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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