On Friday, August 18, 2000 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Garrett Terlaak wrote:
I posted a while back on how to most effectively and affordably cool my new
house. The consensus was a wholehouse fan or ventilator. After discovering
that most of my neighbors use these I went for it, and did the installation
last night. Thanks to all who posted feedback. Now the real problem...

Stupidly I wore a short sleeve shirt and the fiberglass insulation caused
some skin irritation on my arms. Any remedies for this?

Thanks again.

--
Garrett Terlaak
O'Connor Construction Management, Inc.
Telephone: 949.476.2094
Facsimile: 949.476.8294
Web Site: http://www.ocmi.com

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 23:21:05 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, August 18, 2000 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Garrett Terlaak wrote:

This is 13 years old too, but I'll post what I've written.

I posted a while back on how to most effectively and affordably cool my new
house. The consensus was a wholehouse fan or ventilator. After discovering

Aren't these two different things? A whole house fan goes in the
ceiling of floor below the attic, and the ventilator goes in the roof
or the gable of the attic. No?

that most of my neighbors use these I went for it, and did the installation
last night. Thanks to all who posted feedback. Now the real problem...

Stupidly I wore a short sleeve shirt and the fiberglass insulation caused
some skin irritation on my arms. Any remedies for this?

Thanks again.

--
Garrett Terlaak
O'Connor Construction Management, Inc.

Before I learned to wear a long-sleeve shirt, I just did nothing much
and the itching went away in a day or two. I never had any visible
rash. Maybe I took a bath, but the thought occurred to me that the
stuff would just redeposit. That wasn't enough to get me to take a
shower instead.

You must have put in a whole house fan to have gotten so much
fiberglass. When I did my roof fan, I didn't touch any of the stuff
with my arms, only my shoes.

If you are in construction management, shouldn't you know this stuff!

On 2013-10-13, micky wrote:

Before I learned to wear a long-sleeve shirt.........

Either pay someone else to do it or buy a full disposable clean room
(bunny) suit. Only $10-15 ea online. Way cheaper ($2-$5 ea) if you buy a couple
dozen.

nb

micky wrote:

....snip...


If you are in construction management, shouldn't you know this stuff!

The key word is "management".

On 13 Oct 2013 16:11:04 GMT, notbob wrote:

On 2013-10-13, micky wrote:

Before I learned to wear a long-sleeve shirt.........

Either pay someone else to do it or buy a full disposable clean room
(bunny) suit. Only $10-15 ea online. Way cheaper ($2-$5 ea) if you buy a couple
dozen.

I always do such work in the Winter, then do it with minimal outer
clothing (just long pants and shirt, maybe two). After, do the cold
shower thing. No problems.

On 2013-10-13, wrote:

I always do such work in the Winter, then do it with minimal outer
clothing (just long pants and shirt, maybe two). After, do the cold
shower thing. No problems.

I'm super sensitive to fiberglass anything. I once quit a job cuz
they said I hadda sand some fiberglass. "Nuh-uh, I no longer work
here. Toodles." Bunny suits also handy for other chores, like
crawling under a spidery house, attic, etc. I usta get 'em free,
having worked in Silly Valley, but would invest again in a heartbeat.
That's jes me and merely a suggestion.

nb

notbob wrote:
On 2013-10-13, wrote:

I always do such work in the Winter, then do it with minimal outer
clothing (just long pants and shirt, maybe two). After, do the cold
shower thing. No problems.

I'm super sensitive to fiberglass anything. I once quit a job cuz
they said I hadda sand some fiberglass. "Nuh-uh, I no longer work
here. Toodles." Bunny suits also handy for other chores, like
crawling under a spidery house, attic, etc. I usta get 'em free,
having worked in Silly Valley, but would invest again in a heartbeat.
That's jes me and merely a suggestion.

nb

I used to get Tyvek coveralls for free when I repaired computer equipment
in clean rooms many years ago. I still have a couple stashed away for
"emergency" situations, like Halloween .

One time about 20 of us all wore Tyvec suits, spray painted with a local
football team's colors, to a home game.

On 13 Oct 2013 18:41:26 GMT, notbob wrote:

On 2013-10-13, wrote:

I always do such work in the Winter, then do it with minimal outer
clothing (just long pants and shirt, maybe two). After, do the cold
shower thing. No problems.

I'm super sensitive to fiberglass anything. I once quit a job cuz
they said I hadda sand some fiberglass. "Nuh-uh, I no longer work
here. Toodles." Bunny suits also handy for other chores, like

A friend had a bunny suit, but his neighbor Elmer almost shot him.


crawling under a spidery house, attic, etc. I usta get 'em free,
having worked in Silly Valley, but would invest again in a heartbeat.
That's jes me and merely a suggestion.

nb

On 10/14/2013 4:59 PM, micky wrote:
On 13 Oct 2013 18:41:26 GMT, notbob wrote:

I'm super sensitive to fiberglass anything. I once quit a job cuz
they said I hadda sand some fiberglass. "Nuh-uh, I no longer work
here. Toodles." Bunny suits also handy for other chores, like

A friend had a bunny suit, but his neighbor Elmer almost shot him.

That neighbor sounds really fudd up.

I also quit a fiberglass job. Came home, my clothes
made me itch. I tried all kinds of wash, and ended
up throw away the clothes.

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Duct tape worked, but my arms aren't very hairy