"blown-in" fiber glass insulation without a blower??

[Percival P. Cassidy]

Menards is advertising a sale on Johns-Manville "blown-in" fiber glass insulation, but our local store is only a small one, at which this product is available only by special order (2-week wait) and with no machines for rent (never mind "free" as at most of the other stores).

Is there any reasonable way of installing this product without a blower

-- e.g., by raking or otherwise spreading it?

Perce

[LM]

I blew in cellulose. It was compressed so tightly in bags that it was almost solid. It was a job just to break up the chunks to get them into the blower.

The blower mixes air into the insulation and "fluffs" it up.

There's no way I could have broken up the insulation and spread it as evenly by hand as we did with the blower.

[W. Wells]

[<bks>]

Check out your local gas/electric utility. In Mass, NSTAR will reimburse 1/2 the cost up to a maximum amount of having an approved insulation contractor come in and blow insulation. We did this with fiberglass for a large old farmhouse and it saved us quite a bit.

[Percival P. Cassidy]

Thanks for that tip. Our utility doesn&#39;t have such a program, but a link on their Web site directed me to a Federal/State program of which we might be able to take advantage.

Perce

On 11/07/05 06:21 am bks tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

[Stormin Mormon]

I did some blown cellulose a couple weeks ago. Not really practical without the machine. The machine also takes the packed bales, and chops them up into fluff.

Better off with rolled fiberglass if you can&#39;t get the machine.