Stop the liberal anti wallcandy propaganda. It feels so good to eat the wall candy. It tastes exactly like cotton candy but it’s available in my walls and my mattress
After all, if it wasn’t delicious, why would they dye it that delicious pink?!?
I went into my attic once and I shudder to think that the insulation up there may have been glass fiber. I really fucking hope not because I sort of tripped up there. I’m fine, didn’t feel anything later, but to think I had no caution terrifies me.
For the same reason, optic fiber terrifies me. Microscopic glass needles embedding themselves into your skin.
It was nice knowing you
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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…
I cannot believe people are such absolute pussies these days. “GOSH! I touched fiberglass once and I might DIE!” I fucking swam in it when I was a cable guy. Know what I did? Went home midday to shower and change clothes. It was fucking horrible.
Your sense of risk is so fucking skewed it’s pathetic.
I’ve obviously never been in contact with fiber glass insulation so I don’t know the risks besides the pictures here. Nonetheless the dangers of bare fiber glass contact are still dangerous which is where I draw my source of caution.
Also get a life, you are jumping to outrage over Internet comments
It’s fine. Any detrimental effects are cumulative. Unless you are a serious DIYer or professional, you have nothing to worry about.
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You ever get fiberglass in your skin? Shit sucks.
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How have you managed not to get fibreglass on your skin when handling it?
I used to install it professionally, and even with goggles, a mask, and overalls tucked into your socks and gloves, that shit gets everywhere.
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I remember often playing in construction sites as a kid, and we once found a roll of fiberglass. we just decided to sit on it and play with it (I found it funny how it tickled my skin) 😭😭
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There’s more, this guy is a rebel.
This dudes hands in the end of the day
Modern mineral wool is actually way better than that. I recently bought and installed some that was advertised as “really soft” and without gloves or masks, at the end of the day I couldn’t feel an itch. Of course good airflow during installation always makes a huge difference. I would 100% wear a mask in an attic though.
there’s also a massive difference in mineral wool and fiberglass. i’ll take working with mineral wool/rock wool over fiberglass any day
The guys on the bottom are just weak. Can’t even handle a tiny bit of isolation inside them.
Love 100% isolation.
I feel tingly
Im 40% insulation.
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
Unless they made fake fibreglass installation just for this, his hands will be in permanent pain.
You’re supposed to wear gloves and a mask to stop millions of tiny strands of glass embedding themselves under your skin and in your lungs
Lol, wtf? I’ve thrown around insulation so many times without gloves. No pain in my hands!
I touched a load of fiberglass over the years from DIY and helping friends out. It never bothered my hands at all, it didn’t even make me itchy.
Not sure if you guys haven’t ever actually worked with fiberglass, or are trying to make it sound significantly worse than it is to prove a point…
No, you wash your hands after touching fiberglass, have a shower, and by the morning you won’t even realize your mistake. Itll be an itchy few hours, but its not gonna shred your hands, and it won’t cause permanent damage either.
Your lungs will be a bit worse for wear, and you should wear gloves/respirator, but for a couple minutes or photo op or even to move around your own attic you’ll be fine.
Life is permanent pain. Gloves and a mask has never helped me recover from life.
Have you tried using the gloves and mask to commit burglary and/or other crimes against the systems of the rich and powerful?
Turned out pretty good. Thanks for the suggestion!
Wait until you find out about food commercials
I’m suspecting it’s all Ai generated.
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.
fiberglass isn’t that bad to touch without gloves. I mean you should wear gloves, but agressive washing will make the itching go away.
No.
Yeah certainly AI generated
I can never get my hands to itch and I breath too easily. There must be a better way!
“Hmm, our focus group revealed that showing the ‘home owner’ having to wear PPE made them think the work was dangerous. So lose the PPE for the ads.”
Which is stipid, cause it’s one of those things that isn’t dangerous if you take the right precautions…like riding a bike with a helmet.
That sounds extremely plausible.
More like the focus group thought the masks were “super gay fauci shit” so home depot went with “guy wearing $2 safety glasses that don’t even have a dust seal”
Um… Do I need a mask everytime I go to my attic?
You know how sand on the beach is fine, but sand in a super windy dust storm stings like hell? Insulation is fine so long as nobody is actively touching it and spewing out bits. Probably shouldn’t be able to see it but it won’t kill ya.
Thanks. Makes sense to me.
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.
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?
Yes. I guess that means I should. Right?
Yes. Better safe than sorry; I know it’s trite, but fiberglass be nasty.
I see .uk
Based on my experience as someone who has lived in several British houses, yes they probably should.
And in the house in general also. The mould is everywhere unless it’s a modern apartment block from last decade.
Well, yes, british people do tend to infest houses in britain.
Wait… I shouldn’t eat the cotton candy in the attic?
Just a little, as a treat.
Eating it’s fine, just hold your breath
Ads disguising themselves as regular posts (e.g. the “LPT”) is bad. It gets worse when someone screenshots and reposts the ad, presumably even for free. But why does the R****t ad make it all the way to Lemmy!??
It’s ok, you can say Reddit.
just don’t use the hard R
Can’t figure out if that would we ahddit or weddit.
I’m glad people are talking about what a bullshit trash hole of an ad platform that site is. but it definitely would be funny if OP blacked out the brands in the image just out of spite
In this case its more like an anti-ad once OP posted it here, as its showing the incompetence of the company.
The forbidden cotton candy 😋
he got safety glasses tho 👍
Fiberglass is food, isn’t it?
Of course, it’s moist and delicious
Why is he kneeling on that board? He should be balancing his knees directly on the roof beams - get those kneecaps wobbling
Lol, I got yelled at for wasting time cause I went back down to get a scrap piece of board and some knee pads. After really slowing down an hour in, he went down and did the same. What’s the point of buying stuff that helps you work easier and faster if you’re not gonna use it?
i call em roof bananas because you gonna slip if you walk on em and not the plywood
Boomers hate using safety gear.
It’s because they think being dumb makes them tough.
But they’ll be dead soon so nbd
Single use plastics meet single use workers.
lights a dart, inhales: “Don’t be a pussy, kid”
