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Why is he kneeling on that board? He should be balancing his knees directly on the roof beams - get those kneecaps wobbling
i call em roof bananas because you gonna slip if you walk on em and not the plywood
The forbidden cotton candy 😋
Boomers hate using safety gear.
Single use plastics meet single use workers.
lights a dart, inhales: "Don't be a pussy, kid"
But they'll be dead soon so nbd
A little unrelated but still related... I went to the JohnDepo this weekend to get some 2X4...yeah they still look good from far away but every single stick is warped, wet, splintered and such. But this time what really stroke me was that it was Saturday morning 9am and all shelves with the 2x4x10' and 8' were full to the top.
You know what that means if you know what it means. But let me say it: Nobody's buying! Nobody's working on a weekend project or house extensions or improvements. My 500k house now sits a few streets away from a 2mil dollar house. Like there's absolutely nobody who would want a house in my neighborhood for 2million. C'mon! There's just no way, no how. It boggles the mind that they even finished the stupid thing and put that price on it.
The bunks are full on Saturday morning because they fill them up after closing on Friday/ before opening Saturday. It's much harder to close aisles on the weekend to pull down another bundle than it is when the store is closed. Source: I worked lumber/building materials for 1.5 years.
Now, given the economy and the cost of a 2x4, yeah less people are building.
I don't know, even 7am (at some home depots only maybe? ) I remember the 2x4's had already been picked thru. No, this Saturday was definetly a no sale type of wood pile. Maybe artificially wet to keep it from obtaining its true home depot dumbledwarf magic wand waviness.
The boards suck because quality has dropped significantly in the 10 years or so. This vid gets into detail as to why.
he got safety glasses tho 👍
Either asbestos hands or maybe AI generated category images?
Some people just have big hands. Looks real to me, it's obviously just a staged shot for promotion. Get a crew to build part of a fake attic (don't need a whole attic for this), lay some insulation, have the talent (the guy in the photo) hold the insulation and look nice for photos. He leaves, they break it down and move on to the next project
The hands don’t seem off to me, especially if the model has done a lot of hand-on labor. The thing that sticks out to me as an indicator of this being not AI generated is the markings on the strand board to the right of the model’s belt; I don’t think an AI would take into consideration the product info marked onto raw material, let alone be able to place three squares of that info in line. If we could find actual raw strand board with those specific product markings, especially one sold by Home Depot, that would suggest it to be an actual photograph. Identifying the model in the photo and finding photos of him outside of Home Depot’s promo shots would also indicate it’s a photo. In either case of it being a photo or AI-gen, the marketing team still could have done some photoshopping as they see fit.
I think that he wore gloves, then they decided that they didn't like it. So someone had to paint hands over the gloves and they didn't try to re-scales them.
fiberglass isn't that bad to touch without gloves. I mean you should wear gloves, but agressive washing will make the itching go away.
I went into my attic once and I shudder to think what I’d feel if the insulation up there was glass fiber. I sort of tripped up there.
For the same reason, optic fiber terrifies me. Microscopic glass needles embedding themselves into your skin.
It's fine. Any detrimental effects are cumulative. Unless you are a serious DIYer or professional, you have nothing to worry about.
Ever since learning, as a kid, that insulation is microscopic needles of glass, I see it with the same disgust as seeing parasites. Same disgust of microscopic things invading your body and causing damage and not leaving..
It was nice knowing you
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Oh that’s just my dad. He’ll tell you when you should be wearing gloves or eye protection, and then exempt himself from that rule.
Ugh, I resemble this comment. I need to wear more PPE around the house.
I can never get my hands to itch and I breath too easily. There must be a better way!
Um... Do I need a mask everytime I go to my attic?
If you are a professional who is installing insulation all the time? You absolutely need that mask.
If you're a flipper who buys a new house every year or two and usually replaces the insulation? You should wear a mask.
A homeowner who installs it once, maybe twice in their lifetime? Eh. A lot of PPE mandates are about doing it often and professionally where you can get a lot of exposure. Or if you already are at risk. If you have respiratory issues then if course you should wear a mask. If you have healthy lungs and plan to do this task just once in your lifetime, just having decent ventilation and not shoving your face in it is fine.
I'd wear gloves, but more because the rafters probably have splinters and rusted old nails or staples or whatever. The skin irritation from fiberglass lasts like a day or two and doesn't have any long-term impacts, but I also find gloves aren't as inconvenient as masks.
Eye protection is a must. I don't mess with that.
Or you can just pay the extra money for Rock Wool and get all the other benefits that come with that too.
Is there loose or exposed insulation up there?
I see .uk
Based on my experience as someone who has lived in several British houses, yes they probably should.
I’m in no way an expert, but I would think that your insulation won’t be shedding much into the air once it’s in place.
I’d wear a mask, gloves, and long clothes if I were going to touch or move it around though.
He's wearing the safety glasses so he's fine... You guys obviously have never done any sort of construction. Safety glasses make your whole body safe otherwise they wouldn't call them safety glasses duhhhhh.