theres lots of white ploystyrene sheets in the attic between rafters as insulation but its a huge fire risk so I guess ive got to remove it all but is there any use for it perhaps sandwiched behind plasterboard or is best to put it in binbags for landfill?
george
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Offer it on Freeshare or Freecycle as someone may have a use for it ..maybe Ebayers wanting it for packing material.Thats better than it going to landfill
Some polystyrenes are of fire retardant specification.
I think even those are intended for use enclosed within fireproof materials - masonry or plasterboard.
At least it gets it split it into small pieces, distributed around the country and *then* put into several landfills :-)
Not necessarily.Ebayer to Ebayer to Ebayer and on and on .
Why do your posts always look like a poem, or maybe a sonnet, which normally has six lines but this one only has 5.
a freecycler wants some for their hamster they live somewhere local to leominster she said when she has got time she will phone and give me a bell just for you im trying to rhyme, what do you think, John L????
oh Hell I meant Phil L
In message , "George (dicegeorge)" writes
don't give up the day job ...
polystyrene will kill rodents they chew it and it compacts in their guts please try to be prudent this hamsterlady must be nuts.
How do you tell though? Set fire to it?
or fourteen, innit.
J^n
Not heard that. Why doesn't the OP take a bit and hold a lighted match to it (outside). If it's ordinary polystrene it'll take quite quickly and burn well with thick black smoke. Fire retardent will melt and scorch may even have a bit of flame while the match is present but take away the match and it'll go out.
The major problem in the past with polystyrene was untreated ceiling tiles. These would burn well, give off lots of toxic smoke, melt and drip burning plastic over the room contents including anyone trying to get through the room to escape...
It make good model aeroplanes, if hot wire cut and skinned with balsa wood,brown paper or glass and epoxy ;-)
It makes excellent short lived kneeling pads.
Railway modellers for carving into scenery.
MBQ
So market it as rat. I bet the P&P will put people off though.
Dissolve it in petrol to make napalm. Then use it on cold callers.
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