Dence pack cellulose 

Awesome I am glad to help ya.

DYI?

@@darrylchase3688 That was a typing error. DIY. Do it yourself.

@@Gamblor2000 I thought maybe it was a French acronym.

Awesome I am glad I could help you with your project. Please subscribe if you haven't 👍😊

Frank you bet my man. Glad to help. 👍👊

@Loraine Longworth Awesome. 👍

Thanks Frankie they came out nice I thought. 😊

Andrew. Dence pack cellulose does not need an interior vapor barrier except the taped drywall with latex paint is sufficient. Air does not pass through it well unlike fiberglass so not much water vapor will enter the wall. the little that does will dry to the interior. We partial fill with the bigger hose to get alot in the wall quick then switch the machine to the small hoses to do the dence packing. Good questions bud. 👍👍

Any harm in doing a vapor barrier instead of what you used? I don't actually need to dense pack, but I am trying to avoid settlement.

I was wondering the same thing. I tried reducing it to 1” IO and it got stopped up quick. I was using the green machine not the attic cat but, seemed like the pieces were too big. What size diameter of hose and how do I find it and the connection? Thanks. You are giving me hope.

I see it at the end of the video. Thank you.

I would start on the bottom if it were a 8 foot tall wall. If taller start in the middle.

Probably a couple days I am thinking. 2 guys. one feeding machine and one blowing.

Great question

You could try it on a small section and see how it works. As long as the fibers stay in and the air can pass out it will work I'm thinking.

The attic cat has way more blowing power that you need to dence pack. Good luck with your project

If you are blowing loose, no need to block area. For dense pack, you need a higher volume of air to insulation. Some machines have an adjustable gate on them.

yes I think it would work.

3 lbs per cubic foot.

Its in the middle of them both cost wise I would say. Thanks

@@bondobuilt386 : thanks . In a way we pay more than traditional fiberglass but much more effective.

Just blow it in without the small hose and taping off the flow gate. Just like you would blow an attic

​@@bondobuilt386 Got it thanks!!

It does work excelent though in performance.

How do you do it then?

Depending on what you do for roofing. I would vent it if it were shingles. They don’t like hot roofs. If it were steel I would blow it tight and vent above the roof deck. I have a video on how to vent above a roof deck.

I just rented it and I bought the insulation from another place.

@@bondobuilt386 cool, I will do this next month. I'll let you know..

@@idontwantahandle._. it works awesome and the insulation is so good. Much better then fiber glass. 👍

@@bondobuilt386 -- it said on the AttiCat there's a $100 cleaning fee, sticker and handwritten. Did you have to pay that, is it mandatory or only if it's a mess?

@@mv80401 I didn’t pay any cleaning fee. I brought machine back clean. They didn’t charge me any xtra.

Greg the walls were 8'6" so we had a 6" rip of sheetrock at the top. I just put the sheetrock on the bottom so I didn't have to net the entire thing. That 6" top is coated easy in the mud joint on the top. I usually do it the way you explain. Liposuction to the walls lol. 👍👍

Wall was 8’

Matt B. 8’ 6”

I was worrying about it settling until I saw a few dense packing videos. Thanks brother!

@@frankherring6253 No problem bud. We do dence pack all the time. You could do as you say and or put some insulweb stapled up but that would bulge unless your perlings were close together. I hand stuffed my garage with used celulose that I got for free and I packed it with a pipe with a small board on it. I hasent settled in 10 years. 👍

I have dence packed many houses and this is definetly dence packed. We had a heck of a time gettind 5/8” drywall over this. Push it in and it springs right back and was poping screws. What makes you think its not dence pack Scott?

@@bondobuilt386 hey buddy. Insulation contractor here. It's not dense packed because the manufacturers of cellulose (Applegate, Green Fiber) say that you can only achieve dense packing in a retrofit application, ie drilling holes into a wall or ceiling that was built and enclosed without insulation. What you're doing is called BIBS (blown in blanket system) or it's also called net 'n' blow. Which is a great system but it's not dense packed per se, because it's not getting enough material into the wall to meet "dense pack" standards. One thing I will point out is that you are not supposed to have the insulation puffing out as you put it, or proud of the studs. I noticed you put thick shims trying to compensate for this on the studs. I believe you've over filled the cavities, at least according to the way the manufacturer specifications go. Not saying it's a bad system, it's just not the way the manufacturer of the cellulose or fiberglass for that matter tells you to install it.

Thanks Luke. I'm not sure what to call it but man does it work good.👍 I have done many homes and this one has a super low heat demand and we live in upstate new york. Thanks for the info though. 😊

Owens Corning suggests you have the membrane proud, so the 5/8” or high-efficiency boarding material packs down, but you use screws, not nails for the drywall or Zip board of some kind. Never nails for drywall installs but use a higher efficiency wallboard from any number of vendors.