[Greenbuilding] Dense pack cellulose

[Robert Waldrop]

We wasted nearly a whole day trying to make a Home 
Despot blower work with walls.  It did fine for 
the attic, but it didn't have enough power.  We 
found one at a local rental store that was plenty 
powerful, and cost $40/day.

Bob Waldrop, OKC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Winston" <keith at earthsunenergy.com>
To: "Ken Beiser" <kbeiser at centurytel.net>
Cc: <Greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Dense pack cellulose


> 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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