aeoliandave
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how about a leaf blower put on vacuum would that work.
To do what? Blow it out of the eaves and turn the attic into a wood framed Snowglobe?
You really don't want to have this fluff floating around in the free air, never mind getting all over the vacuums & cleaned out crannies, down my shirts and in my ears...
Seriously, even the 65 gallon Shop Vac I borrowed for a while fills up so fast and then ya have to carefully dump - pour actually - the expanding stuff into bags...and that's only enough to fill half of one bag. It's less work to shovel it.
I'm sure there are commercial vacuums on trucks that do this sort of evacuation but they don't do it for free. My method may be slow and back bending but it works without spreading the stuff any further. I will use the 2.25" shop vac to do the final cleanup sucking, since the roof meets the floors at head bonking & squashing angles.
Got 3 more sheets of plywood tonight and a 60 foot roll of heat activated carpet seaming tape from the carpet store - this stuff fuses the pieces tight together for a seamless fit. Once the east half of the flooring is done and carpet set down I move all the vacuums against the west eave over to get at the fluff wedged into those eaves. At the time I was content to just stuff it into the eaves and lean boards against it like a levy dam.
Now I know the method that works I'll be able to replace the barnboard forming the back wall's uneven lumpy 'floor'.
To do what? Blow it out of the eaves and turn the attic into a wood framed Snowglobe?
You really don't want to have this fluff floating around in the free air, never mind getting all over the vacuums & cleaned out crannies, down my shirts and in my ears...Seriously, even the 65 gallon Shop Vac I borrowed for a while fills up so fast and then ya have to carefully dump - pour actually - the expanding stuff into bags...and that's only enough to fill half of one bag. It's less work to shovel it.
I'm sure there are commercial vacuums on trucks that do this sort of evacuation but they don't do it for free. My method may be slow and back bending but it works without spreading the stuff any further. I will use the 2.25" shop vac to do the final cleanup sucking, since the roof meets the floors at head bonking & squashing angles.
Got 3 more sheets of plywood tonight and a 60 foot roll of heat activated carpet seaming tape from the carpet store - this stuff fuses the pieces tight together for a seamless fit. Once the east half of the flooring is done and carpet set down I move all the vacuums against the west eave over to get at the fluff wedged into those eaves. At the time I was content to just stuff it into the eaves and lean boards against it like a levy dam.
Now I know the method that works I'll be able to replace the barnboard forming the back wall's uneven lumpy 'floor'.
