Does anyone know what type of insulation was used about 70-90 years ago in a ceiling cavity below a flat roof? Before I open my ceiling I would like to know what might be up there and how to prepare to remove everything.
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more than likely nothing...
maybe paper if anything...
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My friend next door has a similiar year build and he had a dirty white cotton like material. He just covered over the ceiling and left it alone. If I find that should I do the same and what the heck is it?
i've seen saw dust, newspaper, underwear just to list a few. basically whatever was readily availiable.
Just about anything -- cotton, straw, newspaper, etc. Vermiculite and rock wool were two common commercial products.
Sawdust, vermiculite, perlite, diatomaceous earth, newspaper, rock wool (maybe, I'm not sure about the date of that stuff), or nothing at all. You'll just have to look.
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"so it goes"
at 90 years...
anything up there was put since the original construction...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
at that age, it could be anything in the world from dusty air to dead goats to dirt
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