I’m dense packing cellulose into the walls.
I get just enough access to two of the wall cavities that are above the fireplace and against the chimney.
Can I put cellulose there??
The pics are from the left and right side of the chimney. The long shot shows how high up the other two pics were taken (the higher missing siding on the right).
Rich Beckman
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What kind of FP?
Looks masonry but could be metal "zero-clearance" with berick veneer.
Anyways, just make sure you are not getting it closer than 2"
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"Anyways, just make sure you are not getting it closer than 2""Closer than 2" to what??I think it is a masonry fireplace.
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The fireplace.Probably not hard at sides where a stud probably isoslates the ceity from the FP, but triky where the interior stud face the wall above the mantle. You stat blowing cells there from inside without reating some way of keeping them off the masonry and you will use a lot of cellulose while creating a fire hazard.
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What's the inside view?
You do know you gotta get those vines outta there. They'll be inside your walls and attics soon, as well as tearing out the mortar.
They do have nice vines that crawl up those chimneys on an offstanding wire trellis so you don't see the support. But you need vines that are not invasive. Those you got are.
Pete,The vines are not my problem. She has lived there for a long time and the vines have always been there, so I assume she keeps them trimmed.I don't remember the inside clearly. Memory is fogged by the very well done fake brick on the entire wall that the fireplace is on.I didn't make a point of noticing where the real brick ended and the fake brick begins.
Piffen,From your post I'm thinking that I can insulate that cavity if I can verify that all six sides of the box are either celotex, drywall or 2x4. Does that make sense?
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if there is some sort of barrier there you are sure will keep the cellulose off the masonry
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Thanks. I won't do it if I'm not certain.Good to know my caution was not without foundation.
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Just a heads-up, this would be a good place to use a Ridgid "see snake".
New tool?Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
Thats what I was going to say:http://www.toolbarn.com/product/ridgid/25643/
Not in the budget.This will be a "lower a flashlight on a string into the cavity and insert a small mirror on a stick into the opening" kind of investigation. If the results are inconclusive, then I err on the side of caution.
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You can sometimes use a digital camera or photo phone.Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
My phone doesn't take that good a pic, and there is no way I'm sticking my camera into that opening...I'd drop it for sure. I have a hammer at the bottom of someone's wall and I'd rather leave it at just the hammer, thank-you very much.As it is, I wasn't able to get that good a look. It was hard to see the bottom.So I left it uninsulated.That was my instinct to begin with. I came here to see if my instinct was stupid.So I'm happy.
Rich Beckman
Cool, we do what we can in remod.
Two or thhree wall cavities aint gonna be the end of the world right.
You did the due diligence, you did the best you could with the parameters you were dealt, you did good. :-)Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City