[Greenbuilding] Dense pack cellulose

[Keith Winston]

You certainly can't dense pack by hand. A blower dices the cellulose up, 
and then packs it with an air stream that jams it into every crack and 
crevice: that's really the advantage of the approach. The blowers from 
building centers don't have very powerful motors, so you probably can't 
dense-pack. It is possible to buy a stand-alone blower, that you could 
run inline with a weak blower assembly (that is, the "blowers" you get 
from HD have a hopper, a stirer/chopper, and an airlock). The 
stand-alone blowers look like a leaf blower sortof. The cellulose runs 
right through the blower itself. They run about $500 I think.

Keith


Ken Beiser wrote:
> Is it possible for me to dense pack the cellulose using the blower available at Home Depot?  If placing the cellulose in a cavity from above, can I even place it "by hand" and achieve the results I am after (higher R-value and less convection and moisture transport)?
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> Ken
> Whitefish, MT
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