On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:33:50 GMT, Rick Dipper
wrote:

You cut celotex with a table saw. WOW man you must love your power tools.


I do.
I did say an *old* one - which was also cheap and is used for rough
work like this - with a old blade.


I cut it with a hand saw or a bread knife.

You can also do that, but it is not as neat with a bread knife,
although the latter is useful for removing small pieces so that sheets
can be fitted around timbers.


I gave all the spare bits to the kids to play with.
They can cut it, and nail it (6 inch nails), and think they are doing real woodwork.

This is a bad idea. There is still some production of fine dust when
the pieces are cut and there are strands of glass fibre in the hicker
sheets such as 50mm for reinforcement.


However back to the orignal question.
If the loft ios flat and empty, then get one of these guys who can run a pipe upto the hatch and blow the stuff in.

Probably a bad idea because the stuff gets everywhere and produces
dust.

Rockwall is allfull stuff.

I think you mean Rockwool....

You should spend a fortune on protective gear. Wickes have it at good prices. B&Q = rip off.
Celotex in a loft sounds cool, but its much more work to cut it all neatly, and a pain to get in if you loft is not flat.

Hence the use of a power tool. A circular saw with an old blade
would be equally effective. Polyisocyanurate foam has
approximately half of the U value (equals twice as effective) as other
materials.



..andy

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