How to Install Blown-in or Loose Fill Insulation

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[Fred_Durst]

this is, by FAR, the easiest attic to work in I've ever seen in my life

[breakingballswithtony]

I want this guy to come to my house and do this. Never seen anyone take that much time to do prep work and care. Everyone just blows it in and f u pay me!! Great video

[chris-]

If only all attics were that pristine and wide open 😁

[satisfiedmind]

this is the best, most well explained video on the subject.

[Inkling]

There is a fix to the clumsy walk-on-joists problem that will make installing more than a few inches of insulation much easier. You build an elevated platform to walk on. It's easily done with scrap lumber. Read on for instructions.

1. Take short 2x10 or 2x12 boards about a foot long. You can find them as scrap.
2. Nail strips of wood, perhaps plywood, on each side of those boards and extending down about 3 inches.
3. Slip the result over a joist, with two boards alongside one another on adjacent joists. Except on cathedral ceilings, they don't need to be nailed down.
4. Nail another 2x10 or 2x12 board a little over 24 inches long between the two boards. That creates a stable platform you can stand on rather than those elusive joists. 

Make a series of those platforms and you can walk about an attic. And if you do this for a living, remove them after one job and move them to your next job site. The cost is almost nothing and you'll save a lot of time. You might also sell the result to your customers to make later work in their attic easier. All that walking on joists and kicking away insulation will wreck their attic insulation.

To make your work even easier, connect those platforms with longer 2x10 or 2x12 boards and you will have a solid path to walk about on. If you're blowing in insulation, the platform offers a 4+10+2+2=18 inch marker that you can, if you want, fill up to. Measuring is easy. Just fill up to your pathways.

That 18 inches will give a highly effective R-value of 65. Where I live (central Alabama) that means only on the coldest days do I need to run my heat. The rest of the time the lights and refrigerators keep the interior in the mid sixties. Combine that with attic foil for even more protection, particularly if you have hot summers.

[alunyaloubkhom]

He told me so much more than I needed to know. Thank

[derrickwolter]

This guy did not cut any corners. Hard to find guys who work like this

[spade]

I’m doing this in the Fall to be ready for the next summer. My house is super
Hot right now but if I go up there I’m going to be baked alive. I live in Texas lol

[streetpunk]

Pro tip. Cover everywhere clothes aren't such as your neck face and wrists with baby powder then shower in COLD water to rinse any fiberglass off you.

[iREZARECTEM]

Wow this was surprisingly interesting and good

[antjobert]

Thank you for mentioning the rafter vents. We just bought a house that has blown insulation very high in the attic, but they didn't put in rafter vents/baffles first. 😑 And there is a small amount of mold on the ceiling of the roof.

[Sprucegrove]

One of the best videos for blow in insulation, good job!

[ponderrous]

Good info!

I do have a question to poke fun at you though. How do you get 4x8 sheets of plywood through the 2x2 attic access hatch? ;-)

[washdaze]

Is using bat’s and blowing on top a better way to insulate an attic, or using blown only.

[VideoPir]

Great video. Makes a daunting project really seem doable. Now to get my hands on that blower...

[multitoolish]

this guys voice puts me to sleep, so soothing

[mysticmommy]

I have an attic ceiling that has no insulation, but it has beams that ceiling board was nailed to. Would it be better to add loose insulation without removing the whole board, or removing the boards, lay batting, and put the boards back? Thank you!

[justice]

This guy built a whole entire house to prep.

[tundegold]

I wish I could get this gentleman to come do this in my house. Some1 tell me it is possible to hire this man for this type of project.

[travissmith]

Good video tutorial but I'm more comfortable with markings on my leg for R-40, R- 50 vs. with the various mesusurment tools available.

*Only 2yr experience..