There is currently 36″ long fiberglass batt insulation in my soffit cavities. The insulation is quite hard to remove as the cavities are the middle of a roof sheathing and drywall ceiling sandwitch.
Anyone have any good techniques for getting this
out of the cavities. The house currently has no soffit venting so I am adding some 1.5″ soffit intakes in the blocking between the rafters on the outside.
My two ideas are one of those garbage picker upers or creating my own kind of shop vac attachment that I could jam into the cavities and pull out by suction. Shop vac is a little difficult as I’d have to buy enough piping to get from the ground into the attic or haul the massive shop vac up onto the roof and buy enough piping. Another idea was to get some massive salad tongs like the long metal cafeteria style or bbq style ones.
Other ideas?
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Remove the soffit. Work from outside with a helper inside the attic space.
Re-install soffit along with the new vent.
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The soffit isn't so much soffit as it is blocking between the rafters.Though it is possible to remove the blocking I don't think this would be a very good approach.I bought a telescopic rake, I'll see how that fairs.
4 hours and 12 soffit cavities later the insulation is removed. Nothing like lying on your belly in a hot attic raking out insulation - dang I am glad I am not my helper.
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