This is going to be a blast

Hauled this home tonight and I am planning on blowing it in in Saturday. The attic currently has about 7" in the deepest spot and I am planning on getting the whole thing to about 18" deep. Hope it helps the house hold heat better cause I am sure not looking forwardto doing it.

 

It depends which end you're on. If you're feeding the machine, it's not bad. If you're in the attic manning the hose, you'll come out covered in gray dust, except for where the dust mask was covering.

I've been on both ends. I'd take the 'Feed the machine' end any day. Unfortunately, I'm 6'4 and my roof is a 4/12 pitch, so that made the job suck even more as I didn't stand up straight for over an hour.

 

I have a couple bales of stuff to go in the attic too as a test.
I want to see what it's like to work with before committing to a crap load of it..........like what's on your trailer.
The pics should be interesting..........................

 

Be the loading guy. Piece of cake.

 

I wish I could be the loading guy but there is no way I'm putting my dad in the attic
I seriously thought about hiring someone else to go in the attic so I didn't have to

 

Well, I hope its cool that day.

 

Me to! I also really hope there is a difference putting this much insulation in the attic! The rest of the house is well insulated 2x6 construction but man did they skimp in the attic. It is about 7" deep around the attic access but as you get out to about halfway to the eaves it drops down to about 4" or less.

 

I've read that most of the heat is lost through the attic, I think you will see a big difference.

 

Double cartridge mask works OK with clear goggles. If it's a warm day, prolly lose a few lbs up in the attic. If you end up adding a foot of insulation over the thinner areas, you should definately see a difference. We did the same thing at our old farm. Our problem was we couldn't easily keep windy days from moving the stuff around afterward.

 

Make sure you give those eve's a way to breathe, hate to see you have to go back in and pull it all out.
Corrugated cardboard stapled in C shapes near the base work just like the store bought stuff

 

Great point, I already have rafter baffles stapled in place and ready to go to alleviate the problem.

 

Nice prep.
Now all you gotta do is brave the attic.
We're with ya' man.

 

So we're going to see a few pics of the attic dust storm? before/after
If you can get a hold of a Tyvek suit or some coveralls - makes cleanup a bit easier

 

Tyvek suits are for sissies, I was planning on doing it in nothing but my boxers so that way it will al stick to me and I will look like a big grey fur ball........ How about a picture of that.

 

Now that you've given us a spoiler alert......I'll pass.

 

My ole neighbor would agree with you Cert. He was a contractor and used to do all kinds of crazy stuff where it prolly wasn't good to suck in the air. He thought masks were for sissies too... Yes, he's still going strong today after too many decades of doing that stuff. Don't know why.

 

It will make a big difference.... I think it's a great idea.. If you only have 7" or less it will make a big improvement.

Give us an update, after this winter as to how I helped... Need pics of you tarred and feathered!

If I was going to the trouble of doing this, I would blow more than needed. Sounds like your already doing that though.

You already know all this stuff if you do HVAC stuff too.

 

Let us know how it goes. I've been wanting to add more to my attic, but don't want to actually have to do it. How do you communicate with the loader? How easy is it to move around in the attic with all that hose? Good luck!

 

If you survive putting that stuff in, it will turn out to save you $$$$$$ and make you so much more comfortable, and save on the amount of fuel used to get the same prior temps.

 

You will definitely see a difference when its done. I had about 5" of dense pack stuffed into the roof of the cape portion of our place (finished second floor and that was all that would fit between the roof and sloped ceiling) and about 6 inches blown over the top of the R19 batts in the ceiling of the addition.

Between doing that, air sealing and blowing into the walls I measured a nearly 40% year over year reduction in fuel use (corrected for HDD differences).