homemade cellulose insulation hopper and blower

I have made a home made insulation blower. You shoud buy a good size electric leaf blower and modify it .you have to take the large leaf suction end off the blower and reduce it to inch and 1/4 size and also the delivery end has to be reduced to (1 !/4) also.

after you make these modifications You can buy about 30 fett of this size plastic hose it is sold to be used on sump pumps and is verry flexabe. also verry affordable and if you need an extension on the end of yoiur delivery hose you just fot another piece of hose on there and use some masking tape to hold the hoses to gether.

You will need a box to put the celuose(old traeted newspapers) in and I made a box about 3ft long and about 2 ft high and 2 feet wide. The insulation material needs to be broken up with a paddle so that it will go through the blower and not plug it up.so I add about 1/3 of a bag of materials and break this up with a paddle before using the blower to put insulation in the walls.

When doing the walls drill a inch and 1/2 whole in the walls , and at the end of the hose you use to fill the walls put some masking tape around the hose so that it fights snugly in the wlaa cavity to be filled. the end of the hose should be a tapered fit into the wall.

If you drill a few wall cavites at the same time Cover the wholes with masking tape except for the one you are filing with insulation and once you finish filling a wall cavity cover the whole with masking tape untill a more permanet repair can be made to the wall.with gprock and filler .

On the blower you shpuld have a 3 or 4 ft, suction hose and a 8 to 10 ft exhaust hose and if need sections can be adder to the delivery side of the hose.

On the top of the box that holds the insulation. I made a board with a whole in it to hold the blower in place and I can do the job my self with out a helper.

I had a contractor give me a estimater of doing my house and it was about 2000 dollars I bought the blower and modified it and bought the insulation and did the whole job for less than 700 dollars..

The blower was filled up with dust inside of it and this corroded the electricall parts inside the blower and when I tried to use it the next year there was nothing happening due to the corrosion inside my leaf blower. I am going to add an other electricall motor to that and have my improved and modified blowe up and running soon.

If you have question feel free to conatct me my e is akacaper@yahoo.com.... Happy insulation everyone...

It probably never occurred to you that you can make your own cellulose insulation. The process is fast, safe and relatively easy. The insulation is just as good as or better than insulation you buy on the market. It is fire retardant and resists insects and rodents.

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