I don't envy you blowing insulation in. I've done it in a few houses now and it really is a job. When I did my house in Charlotte, Lowes had an offer where you could use the blower free if you bought something like 20 bags of insulation. My house didn't have any in the walls and minimal in the ceilings. So I bought the 20 bags and blew the stuff in everywhere. I used the wands from my shop vac to extend into the rafters because of such small openings. I filled all the rafters first then the walls and blew what was left into the attic. I'm glad I had my son to help because we were dumping bags in one after the other once we started.
Funny thing was, they never did any paperwork on the blower. When we brought it back the guy said "No wonder we couldn't find it." Not a business I'd want to get into though. ----- Original Message ----- From: chiliblindman To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] additional about spray insilation question. Spiro, last weekend my son-in-law and I blew in 38 bags of insulation in his attic area. 12 inches of the lose blow in insulation added an R rating of 54 I think. We got the blower and insulation from lowes and rented their truck to transport it all. Total time was around 7 hours and that included travel and shopping time. ................bob [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
