Gale Tedhams: Hi! I am Gale Tedhams and I am with Owens Corning. I am here to show you how to insulate your attic. Today we are going to use Blown-in loose fill. Now we have rented an AttiCat machine from our local home improvement store. You can go to insulateandsave.

com to find out where you can rent them, or you can have a contractor do this for you.

So using the AttiCat machine is an easy weekend project. We are going to follow the steps that are listed on the machine and show you how to put it together and how to start Blown-in loose fill. So we just put it together and then we close it up making sure that it's locked. I am going to plug in the power cord right here and Dwight is going to connect the hose, it just screws in.

Now we have already measured the attic. We know the width and length. So we know the total square feet. On the bag of AttiCat Loosefill, there is a table that will tell you how much material to buy to cover your square foot of attic to the R value that you desire. Now we've also attached rulers inside of the attic. So the level of the R value that we are putting in can be maintained and be leveled across the attic.

So the second step is cutting the bad in half. So you can see Dwight has taken a knife and he is cutting all the way around the bag. There is a cut line that is marked clearly on the bag right in the middle. Then he just sets it on a table or in this case on another package of insulation and just breaks it in half. Now the next step is to load the bag into the machine and there is a special cutter on the machine that will automatically cut the package and the material will fall right into the machine.

After the machine is loaded, check everything is clear to turn the machine on. If there is a little bit of delay of about 8 seconds to clear the hose and then the paddle starts turning and that's starts processing the Loosefill through the machine, through the hose and into the attic.

Now we have already prepared the attic for the Loosefill to be blown in. We have Attic Rafter Vents attached to the roof deck, so that we can maintain the Soffit ventilation all the way from the Soffit Vent to the hip and ridge of the roof. So now we've talked about how to do insulate your attic using Blown-in loose fill. Next, we will talk about what to do about heat generating devices such as recessed lighting in your attic and also ventilation.