Cellulose with Vermiculite?

[Mike Lamb]

This insulation looks like blown in cellulose but it sparkled a little bit. On closer scrutiny it looks like there's some little chunks of her vermiculite in it. Anybody see this before?

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[hausdok]

Hi Mike,

You should have dug down into it. You would have found the mother lode. I had one this afternoon. '50's house. I crawled into the attic and found it with about 14-inches of insulation. Thought it was odd to have so much in such an old house. then I noticed the glint. Dug down and found the ceiling joist bays full to the top with vermiculite. They'd blown in the cells on top of it.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[John Kogel]

Yep, there's vermicki there, and somebody stirred it in to the cellulose.

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This pic is old news, but I like it for an extreme example of the goofy stuff we find.