"George (dicegeorge)" wrote in message
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Loft cleaning advice please

I've been up in my loft looking at the drips.
Its never been cleaned in over 100 years-
what sort of tools and methods do you recomend i use?
What can go wrong if i get the biggest vaccuum cleaner i can find from
HSS?

as well as cobwebs and dust and slate and woodrot powder
and cement and bricks and wood and metal pipes and wires live and dead
and lots of polystyrene chunks and ripped up bedding
and bits of carpet and that brown wooly filling from armchairs
and sleeping bags and eggboxes
which were put in for insulation in the 70s i guess...

a fire risk.

and what sort of breath protection?
those throwaway face masks look a bit flimsy for the amount of dust up
there,
and those plastic eye glasses make my specs steam up,
is there a mask you can recommend please?

Theres not asbestos i think.

[george]

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I cleaned my loft out last year prior to having my electricity and gas
supplier come and insulate it for me.
I took some green plastic garden refuse bags up there and got as much as I
could into them. Obviously there was stuff that wouldn't go in so it was a
case of drag through loft hatch and place in back yard with the bags.
I then used a dustpan and brush, having to lay on boards in order to get
down into the eaves. After, to the wife's horror, I took the Dyson up there
.. Job took me about a week in all to do.
What did I wear? Well, old clothes for one. Safety specs to go over my
glasses. Rubber gloves. DIY face mask. Hard hat. Coveralls.
Those fibreglass particles get everywhere as soon as you start, despite the
clothing.
It is surprising just how many times you hit the rafters when you are
wearing a hard hat, yet when you don't, you never hit them at all.
Oh and by the way, I had to strip and clean the Dyson 3 times before it
worked properly again.
Chap came to do the insulation and said that it was the cleanest loft he had
seen in all the years he had been doing the job.
James