00:00well welcome back to our continuing series here and this is a piece of equipment not many people
00:16get to use very often this is an insulation blower now what this is for is blowing cellulose
00:21insulation which is the paper that gray insulation that you can buy in in bundles and first off
00:29make sure when you buy your material that hopefully it hasn't been sitting in a warehouse too long it is
00:36partial to getting wet and you do not want it to be wet or damp the corners a lot of time or what
00:43get a little wet or damp and they they make like chunks and that's what sometimes can give you a
00:48problem when you're trying to spray the cellulose now the cellulose is sprayed into the ceiling of
00:53your house or any building and it can also be used in the walls to insulate as opposed to using
01:02fiberglass insulation now this particular unit is a two-inch hose has about 75 feet of hose so this
01:11part is going to be outside usually or somewhere in the house which is not going to create a real mess
01:19or the area would be cordoned off maybe a plastic off window open because your cellulose is just like
01:26dry paper so it tends to blow everywhere now what you'll do here to hook this machine up is this hopper
01:34is a nice thing about this machine it was designed by a fella that actually did the job there and worked
01:40in blowing insulation so everything is accessible nothing's hidden there's no areas where it can get
01:46blocked that you can't see it where you can't clear it out and this is your blower this blower here will
01:55hook right on to this area here like so this end of the hose and as you see there's a rubber seal in
02:03it this will screw onto here just push it on and turn it it's got a couple little nibs on it all righty
02:10this is a remote start stop for the blower so that the person that's up in the attic or away from the
02:17machine can actually start and stop it because obviously when this material starts coming out of
02:22this hose there's no way some of them have a knob on it to turn it off we found that the problem with
02:31that is is if you don't get the blower off quick enough that even though you turn the knob and shut the
02:36material coming out of the hose it's still coming at you through the mixer and the blower and you
02:42start backing up in your hose and plugging your hose and that takes a while to unplug if you have
02:47ever had that happen to you so good idea to have this available this is a two-person job one person is
02:55going to be on this machine here down where you're putting the bats in and the material in and the other
03:00person is going to be at the end of the hose wherever that may be in the attic or on walls or whatever
03:04another real important thing is this little thing here which is the air inlet when you're blowing
03:11cellulose insulation unless you're going to be doing steady ceilings or only a ceiling and you won't have
03:19the reducer on as you see there I'll explain that in a moment but that's for the walls but if you just
03:24have a clear open hose then you can have this closed as much as you are comfortable with and you
03:31could have it closed and then you're shooting a hundred percent cellulose but bear in mind if
03:36there's any kind of obstruction or you want to there's a chunk in your hose or anything then it
03:42can't get through that when that stops everything backs up in the holes so it's always good I think
03:47to have there's a line we put on here as recommended there's always good to have a bit of air mixed with
03:53the cellulose as you're blowing it it may take a little bit longer because you're not blowing as much
04:00cellulose but you've got a little more control and that's probably worth it when you start to
04:05does this stuff no matter when you if it starts going all over the place it's pretty messy so you
04:11can turn it on and off with your switch the blower there's a breaker underneath these motors because
04:17you're running two motors you're running a mixing motor and you're running usually a blower off the same
04:22circuit so make sure you have adequate power and you're using a heavy number 12 extension cord which is
04:28available when you rent it there is a toggle switch the best way I find to have that toggle switch is
04:36so when you turn to the salon and add power that the mixer is going right away inside there's some
04:41paddles that are mixing the cellulose insulation and that's breaking it up because in the bags of
04:46course as you see when you open them they're so they're tightly packed so it's nice to make sure
04:51that that mixer is going right away rather than dumping material inside and you start getting chunks in
04:57the bottom it's nice to get it broken up as quickly as you can and then with the switch in that one
05:02position then you can have the mixer going right away and then you just click the toggle on your
05:10remote and that'll start the blower on and off that's probably the easiest way to to use it and I
05:16think we put right on here put it right to the right only in this particular case and that is that
05:21function because the other functions are the blower and mixer coming on together when you trigger the
05:27switch or maybe just the blower coming on first and then you have to put the mixer on so having that
05:33on right away is is perfect you've also got a couple of fuses here which sometimes are needed when you're
05:39don't have adequate power or you're you're you're pushing too much material now as I said when if I take this
05:50hose off it's a hopper you the person down here is going to pour the the cellulose insulation to the
05:56top of the hopper and breaking it up with their hands there are some rods across the top so you
06:01can't put your hands too far but there are steel mixers down here paddles and you want to have it
06:08broken up really well don't be afraid to have the mixer running for a while before you start or have
06:13it running and take your time shut it off make sure the operator down here has enough time to get
06:19material in there so it can mix up well and you don't get chunks through the chunks will will get
06:26caught down here but also as you would as you would figure because this is a smaller one inch nozzle
06:35the chunks would get stuck in here now once they get stuck and it starts backing up in the hose you've
06:40got some problems that's why this particular hose I think comes in a 25 and a 50 foot length so at least
06:45you can break it in your first 25 feet to get it cleared out now if you're not going to do walls
06:51where you drill a hole in the side of the walls top and bottom to stick this in and fill up the
06:56wall if you're not going to do walls take this off it's just held on with a clamp and just have it
07:02coming out freely less chances of the hose getting plugged up and obviously it's going to go out a lot
07:07quicker and you don't really need this nozzle when you're not doing the walls so there's a there's a
07:14job that takes a few things to know but you can tackle it yourself take your time and hopefully you
07:22can learn something from what I just passed on to you and you can subscribe thank you
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