Build your own insulation blower
There are two interesting cllips on Youtube that show two different approches to building you own insulation blower. The first uses a hairdryer (Yes you are reading that correctly)
The second utilises a vacuum cleaner/blower
The vacuum blower seems to be the safer of the two, but I know I can get my hands on an old hairdryer. I will need to remove heating elements etc and run it off a 12v battery however so I may have to rethink my strategy.
Hello,
I've retrofitted an old cellulose insulation blower
that was missing the expensive blower.
I used a standard electric leaf blower.
The sears unit I used was rated for continous duty,
and the lexan blades (made to shred up to small twigs)
seems none the worse for wear after a couple of hours
of use.
Yes, I coupled a long hose to the output (50' long)
and it worked just fine.
If you don't want to make the stirring mechanism,
I'm sure some plywood could be use to build a box,
with the blower intake couple in a 4" dia. hole
near the bottom.
This would have the "stuffer" (person loading the bales)
also having to crumble and regulate the material
into the blower. A rake or a spade might be good here.
Hi Doug,
That sounds like a great project.
Cellulose blowers are next to impossible to source in Ireland.
Regards
Liam
Hi Im glad to see some Ideas out there, my husband is trying to build one out of a drum and leaf blower, cant find something to crumble up the material like a blade system so just a turn handel for now, keep up the ideas and good luck