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Purchase Insulation and Rent Blower

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Contractors Charge Thousands for this! HACK, To get a FREE rental

What happens here

The host drives to a home improvement store (Home Depot) to purchase the necessary materials. He mentions needing about six bags of R-38 insulation. He notes that if enough bags are purchased, the insulation blowing machine may be rented for free; otherwise, it's typically an inexpensive rental. He initially forgets to pick up the actual insulation bags, only renting the machine, and has to return to the store. Upon returning, he selects bags of Owens Corning AttiCat PINK LooseFill Attics insulation, which is R19-R60, and specifically avoids faced insulation used for walls.

Goal: Acquire loose-fill fiberglass insulation and rent an insulation blowing machine.

Tools and materials

  • Ford Super Duty Truck Ford — Transporting insulation and blower machine
  • Insulation Blower Machine — To blow loose-fill fiberglass insulation into the attic
  • Utility Cart Home Depot — Transporting insulation bags within the store and to the vehicle

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today all right so we're going to go to Home Depo we need two things we need about six bags of the R38 insulation and we need the insulation machine that throws it up in the attic and rumor has it that if you buy enough bags they'll give it to for free but if not it's usually a pretty inexpensive rental so let's go pick that up [Applause] [Music] trying to Crunch the numbers of exactly how much insulation I need I'm going with basically six bags but and each bag covers roughly around 100 square ft but it doesn't tell you how thickness you're trying to add so in my situation I need about like 7 to 8 in but in somebody else situation maybe they only need two so how many bags they need I don't I don't know so uh we'll start with six and fingers crossed that'll be enough I just don't want to make another run okay so uh 10 bags of installation that give you a free rental um I only needed six but basically for another four that would have paid for the installation uh oh crap I forgot the installation itself all right let's go back so this is what we're looking for this is r19 through r60 it's square like this as opposed to the stuff has face on it so face has paper we don't want the paper stuff that goes in the walls this is the attic stuff uh this look machine need [Music] these Bo we got 10 bags 57 bucks a bag uh spent $57 total if we don't use it all there's $150 charge if we use it all we save 150 bucks so this is the most we'll spend now let take this back and make it snow oh and one more thing there's a $250 deposit so if we don't bring the machine back we're 250 bucks in a hole but go get the money back you bring it back hey we're going to take a quick little detour I bought a piece of

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