Loft insulation

Do you mean cellulose fibre insulation, which is made from chewed up newspaper? Not just any insulation, but *eco-friendly* insulation.

This is one brand:

Colin Bignell

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Can't one of you Virgin customers complain about the dupes? Or it'll soon be time to kill posts from their server ...

In article , Andy Burns writes

Hear, hear Hear, hear Hear, hear Hear, hear Hear, hear :-)

From what I can see, that looks more like vermiculite.

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Thanks: Another picture:

Sorry about the duplicates. I keep getting a message "Done. Waiting for Confirmation" I must be more patient and stop hitting keys.

It looks pretty much like vermiculite to me. It's far more pleasant on the skin and doesn't get suck in your throat like glass fibre and I have no idea why the EPC surveyor disregarded it. They do have some strange rules, the last one I talked to said they disregard the thickness of wood if you've boarded your loft!

Rather worrying comment at the end of the wiki article I hadn't heard before concerning asbestos!

I agree. It looks a bit sparkly, which would be characteristic of expanded mica aka vermiculite..

Colin Bignell

On Thursday 05 December 2013 16:48 Fredxxx wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Is vermiculite any good as a sound insulator (between floors)?

Just wondering...

:-)

When things go wrong at Virgin (fortunately not often) you wait till they put it right (fortunately not very long). The alternative is to endure many pointless conversations....

Eternal-september works well. Virgin has been s*it for a long time.

No I hadn't heard that one either. Another one here.

It seems to be a US concern as I've seen UK building website mentioning vermiculite for insulation.

I don't know where UK vermiculite has generally come from, or its asbestos content. It seems the US vermiculite has a history of contamination.

Given the increasing measures for asbestos and the dusty nature of vermiculite I might now choose to give it a wide berth.

Is it Virgin? I use Virginmedia, and haven't had a problem with duplicate or triplicate posting.

(Famous last words? I hope not!)

Bugger! Ignore previous. Just remembered we're talking usenet here, not e-mail or browsing!

Sorry!