Maybe I missed it, but what was the SQ footage and how long did it take? The little bit you showed of the hose sucking up insulation seemed like it was not going quickly.
The square footage was about 730 and the insulation was about 1 foot thick. It goes pretty quickly if you get it close to the insulation. I was trying to do it with one hand since I had the camera.
I'm currently doing it the exact same way. $300 dust collector + $200 for 4in 100ft corrugated hose. I'm going slow because there's a lot of debris in my attic and I'm feeding the loose fiberglass into the hose manually, separating nails and large wood pieces. Houston, TX. Yet to figure out how to dispose of those bags of insulation afterwards.
Nice. Sounds like you paid a lot for that hose. I paid only $50 at home depot and not corrugated. One thing that slowed me down was the extra debris within the insulation as well. The hose would get clogged and I had to stop and restart a few times. I loaded the bags in my truck and drove the to the dump one by one. I had about 8 bags total.
@@LandlordOdyssey The hose didn't fit my small car, so I had to order a delivery from Lowe's, that was $80.... If I had to do it again, I'd rent a truck for $20 for an hour and deliver it myself.
After watching your video, I think I am going to do the same for my place. where did you buy the gray hose to hook up the bag to the machine? Thanks for your video man!
My pleasure. Glad I could help. The gray hose comes with the machine. I’m gonna have a similar video on this soon as I have to do the same for the walls.
Looks awesome, great work! Any chance you could send/ post the amazon link for the bags? I'm going to duplicate your setup, I got similar quotes and thought I could save myself 1k over a long weekend getting it done myself.
I would use rockwool bat insulation: www.homedepot.com/p/Rockwool-ComfortBatt-R30-7-1-4-x23-x47-Unfaced-Batt-Stone-Wool-Insulation-30-7-Sq-Ft-per-Bag-RXCB3023-RXCB3023/313477898
Just curious why a shopvac wouldnt work fitted with one of those 5gallon bucket cyclone seperators retrofitted to a 32G trash can wouldnt work? I figured itd only cost me $200 that route and the plastic bags are cheap Edit* and a hepa kit for the shopvac to try and cut down on dust
I actually had no idea about that cyclone separator. I think that would work fine except it would be slower because of the diameter of the hose and in my case the insulation had a bunch of plaster in it as well as other trash so it would get clogged pretty often. It even clogged with the 4 inch hose I used. Other thing is I’m not sure how long you can get the hose for this application without it losing power. I had about 50 feet of it and no place to place the rig in the attic. Great solution nonetheless
This is the device: www.harborfreight.com/2-hp-industrial-5-micron-dust-collector-97869.html It's a dust collector that most people use in woodworking shops. It's 2 HP and works great for insulation.
It took me 2 - 10 hour days and I was by myself. I also had plaster and junk mixed in with the insulation so that caused the hose to clog often. In the video, it looks like the hose doesn't pick up much but it picks up a good amount.
@@LandlordOdyssey that's a little under 700 square feet. We charge 1.50 a square foot and it would've taken about four hours. We use two vtwin powered honda engines on vacuum machines. You spent $250 on bags and two days that we would have charged roughly a grand for. If you had stepped through the ceiling, and/or broken your leg doing it you would really be having a bad day. Just saying sometimes spending seven hundred on something rather than doing it yourself is worth it.
I was just answering your it’s not fast comment but I do agree, it’s best to hire most things out. Some people though don’t want to hire it out. I used a weekend which I would have spent doing nothing to do this. I have multiple properties and don’t see doing everything myself feasible. I was quoted $1700 for this initially.
I certainly understand and I never blame anyone for saving some money. Things are slowing down a little bit and I think the days of people charging anything they want are behind us so next time you might get an even better price.. good luck with your venture
Love a good Harbor Freight solution.
Thanks to the 5 other youtube videos I watched on the subject 😀
Wow that’s a lot work, amazing job, subscribed!
Thank you sir
Maybe I missed it, but what was the SQ footage and how long did it take? The little bit you showed of the hose sucking up insulation seemed like it was not going quickly.
The square footage was about 730 and the insulation was about 1 foot thick. It goes pretty quickly if you get it close to the insulation. I was trying to do it with one hand since I had the camera.
Thank you for the video! Good job.
My pleasure. Thank you
I'm currently doing it the exact same way. $300 dust collector + $200 for 4in 100ft corrugated hose. I'm going slow because there's a lot of debris in my attic and I'm feeding the loose fiberglass into the hose manually, separating nails and large wood pieces. Houston, TX. Yet to figure out how to dispose of those bags of insulation afterwards.
Nice. Sounds like you paid a lot for that hose. I paid only $50 at home depot and not corrugated.
One thing that slowed me down was the extra debris within the insulation as well. The hose would get clogged and I had to stop and restart a few times.
I loaded the bags in my truck and drove the to the dump one by one. I had about 8 bags total.
@@LandlordOdyssey The hose didn't fit my small car, so I had to order a delivery from Lowe's, that was $80.... If I had to do it again, I'd rent a truck for $20 for an hour and deliver it myself.
Yeah and maybe used the truck to dump the bags too.
After watching your video, I think I am going to do the same for my place. where did you buy the gray hose to hook up the bag to the machine? Thanks for your video man!
My pleasure. Glad I could help. The gray hose comes with the machine. I’m gonna have a similar video on this soon as I have to do the same for the walls.
@@LandlordOdyssey The link on your page for Harbor Friend is not working. Can you update? Thanks
Updated the link in the description. Here it is: www.harborfreight.com/35-gallon-2-hp-high-flow-high-capacity-dust-collector-59726.html @@Othermails08
Looks awesome, great work! Any chance you could send/ post the amazon link for the bags? I'm going to duplicate your setup, I got similar quotes and thought I could save myself 1k over a long weekend getting it done myself.
Thanks for watching. Hope it helped save you some money. Here are the bags I used: amzn.to/45qj5Qu (affiliate link)
@@LandlordOdyssey thank you! Greatly appreciated
In your opinion, would you use roll out insulation or blow in insulation?
I would use rockwool bat insulation: www.homedepot.com/p/Rockwool-ComfortBatt-R30-7-1-4-x23-x47-Unfaced-Batt-Stone-Wool-Insulation-30-7-Sq-Ft-per-Bag-RXCB3023-RXCB3023/313477898
Just curious why a shopvac wouldnt work fitted with one of those 5gallon bucket cyclone seperators retrofitted to a 32G trash can wouldnt work?
I figured itd only cost me $200 that route and the plastic bags are cheap
Edit* and a hepa kit for the shopvac to try and cut down on dust
I actually had no idea about that cyclone separator. I think that would work fine except it would be slower because of the diameter of the hose and in my case the insulation had a bunch of plaster in it as well as other trash so it would get clogged pretty often. It even clogged with the 4 inch hose I used.
Other thing is I’m not sure how long you can get the hose for this application without it losing power. I had about 50 feet of it and no place to place the rig in the attic.
Great solution nonetheless
Buy massive insulation vacuum
That’s a bit expensive and my truck will not fit it. It will be much faster though, that I know.
@@LandlordOdyssey Sorry thought that's what you did? Not kidding, so what is that huge device?
This is the device: www.harborfreight.com/2-hp-industrial-5-micron-dust-collector-97869.html
It's a dust collector that most people use in woodworking shops. It's 2 HP and works great for insulation.
@@LandlordOdyssey Thanks have to get rid of pink fiberglass somehow, Rockwool ready
Yeah this setup is not gonna help with pink fiberglass. This is best for blown-in insulation. Rockwool's the best. I'm also adding that.@@myobmyob2215
what he doesn't tell you is that it will take two weeks to do it that way. It isn't fast.
It took me 2 - 10 hour days and I was by myself. I also had plaster and junk mixed in with the insulation so that caused the hose to clog often. In the video, it looks like the hose doesn't pick up much but it picks up a good amount.
@@LandlordOdyssey that's a little under 700 square feet. We charge 1.50 a square foot and it would've taken about four hours. We use two vtwin powered honda engines on vacuum machines. You spent $250 on bags and two days that we would have charged roughly a grand for. If you had stepped through the ceiling, and/or broken your leg doing it you would really be having a bad day. Just saying sometimes spending seven hundred on something rather than doing it yourself is worth it.
I was just answering your it’s not fast comment but I do agree, it’s best to hire most things out. Some people though don’t want to hire it out. I used a weekend which I would have spent doing nothing to do this. I have multiple properties and don’t see doing everything myself feasible. I was quoted $1700 for this initially.
I certainly understand and I never blame anyone for saving some money. Things are slowing down a little bit and I think the days of people charging anything they want are behind us so next time you might get an even better price.. good luck with your venture
@deanbenton5098 thank you sir. I appreciate it.