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Mask, Gloves and a Long Sleeved shirt and it's all good. Some of the old insulation will make you itchy as hell and probably not something you want to breathe
by noir_lord 3y ago
Mask, Gloves and a Long Sleeved shirt and it's all good.
Some of the old insulation will make you itchy as hell and probably not something you want to breathe but otherwise yeah, it's just a chore its not difficult assuming you are able bodied (I'm UK so our houses (until recently) had heavy duty joists so you can just clamber around on them, if gonna me up a while take a board up and lay it over a few to kneel/lay on and that's about it.
- saalweachter 3y agoI've always wondered if that's the old glass insulation itself, or the accumulated mouse-poop-dust embedding itself in the microscratches and freaking out your immune system.
- Baeocystin 3y agoFrom the one time I blew in insulation without wearing a full Tyvek suit, I am confident is answering that it's the glass. That was an itchy lesson. (I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mouse poop factor along for the ride after long enough, though)
- lazide 3y agoA lifetime of accumulated pollen/dirt/mousepoop does add some extra fun though in my experience. The reason fiberglass is itchy is because it’s piercing the epidermis. It’s basically a pad of brittle micro hypodermic needles. Add those two together, and it gets extra fun.