Icynene and foam trick

clammy

Only one as smart and cleaver as you hot rod would have thought of that and quite out of the box i must add .Great ideas that most would have just throwen out .peace clammy

hr

After trimming the excess

foam from the stud and rafter bays I ended up with a huge pile of "overburden" About four 55 gallon drums worth of chunks.

A trainee had sprayed this last section of my shop and had some large globs the I had to trim before we sheetrock (glad it was a flat rate price!)

So I stuffed a barrel full and stuck my weed wacker (string trimmer) into the barrel. Within seconds it reduced the large chunks into tiny sized (rice like) pieces!

I threw some chunks of pink and blue underslab foamboard in also.

Now instead of putting the waste into the landfill I will use it,as a loose fill, to pour into attic areas or stud bays after the rock is in place. Maybe I can use my shop vac to blow it into place?

The four barrels reduced down to 6 medium sized plastic garbage bags.

hot rod

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Weezbo

That Is A Great Idea!

normally i use the leftover pieces of foam board for things like underground latterals on the water supplys to our indoor meters..now your weed wacker idea coupled with the scraps of foam...used as loose fill in the "lid" ...Good inventing. recycled, purposeful and economical *~/:)

Jim Bennett

Very ingenious!

Thanks for sharing the idea! I’m definitely going to bookmark that one.

Jim

Ken_8

U should see

what a weed-whacker can do to a sloe gin fizz!



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Carl PE

Very Sneaky

Cool. Maybe you should make a deal with the insulator to save all his trimmings for you.. You guys can sell it by the bag.

I use scraps of the 2" blue board to make insulated pipe hangers. Use a 7/8" and a 3" hole saw to make styrofoam donuts, then put a regular 2" pipe clamp around the whole thing. Works great, and it's a lot cheaper than the armaflex hangers.

Unknown

super size

It slices, it dices, it makes flakes out of board....

the new super size queez-n-art.

HR - you da man!!!!

JohnWood1

Mix it with a binder?

HR;

Toss the "rice" in a cement mixer with just a wee bit of cement and water. Will bind the insulation to a permanant form that could be placed without blowing about.

joel_19

cool

But was that use of a weedwacker OSHA approved ? Did you have the optional foam processing gard system in place ?

Dale

Caution

I don't know of the fire rating for shredded foam but I would guess the shedded blue or pink board is not rated for pour in insulation. HR, since you are willing to experiment how about getting a pile of the stuff, foam, board and mixed outside and lighting it off? As to blowing with the shop vac, the static elect potential will be tremendous coming out of a plastic hose. I just spent a few day doing fire training so maybe I'm a bit too cautious.