DIY Quickest Attic Insulation Removal Tutorial : Easy w/Versa-Vac | Goodbye to Blown-In Insulation!

Buy me a coffee? www.buymeacoff... Buy me a coffee? www.buymeacoff... You may be asking, "How do I remove the insulation from my attic or crawl space?". You could use a shop vac with some garbage bags and get the job done or you can use one of these industrial sized vacuum's like the Versa Vac. If you decide to go with the versa vac, I show you how to use it in this video. It works like a champ and had no issues at all. The rental place had special bags for this for sale but they were expensive. I will say they were worth their money though. I hope this video serves you well. Big shout out to Sunbelt rentals as well. They couldnt fi the first machine in the back of my truck so they offered to rent me a trailer for free for the christmas holiday. Which brings me to my next point, they only charged me for one day of use and alllowed me to keep it thorugh the Christmas holiday weekend which took the pressure off to scramble get it done. If you have a subbelt rental place near you, they are top notch. On top of that, the they let me return the unused bags for a refund. All that and they were smiley and friendly customer service folks at the front desk and well as freindly nad super helpful old dudes loading everything up. I won't look anywhere else next time I need to rent something.
Here's the video transcripts:
Good day everyone! This is the big Versa-Vac that I rented to suck out all the insulation from this attic, and here's how to operate it. Checking the oil on this first; the oil looks really good. So, this is a Kohler Command Pro 19 horsepower motor, and it's got a battery on there, so it's electric start. We're going to hook it up to this gas tank first, this right here.
What I'm showing here is a safety shut-off switch, and it won't start unless that is depressed. This is where the bags attach to; you tape the bags around this area, along with that little lever and switch. Here are the bags that are made to go along with it. They're industrial size, industrial strength bags, but they are quite spendy. What I'm demonstrating here is the fact that this thing won't run unless that little kill switch, that little safety switch, is pushed in. If you release it, it kills the motor; you push it in, restart. Okay, the bag goes on this part. We're taking down the safety latch.
I'm up in the crawl space here, and here's how I'm making the connections, just with electrical tape. The pieces just slide together with the collar on there and then tape them together. Here's all the insulation; it goes way past that too, so quite a bit to do. You know where it comes up through the hole in the attic here, I've tied it off as well, so the hose doesn't slide down. For each length of hose, this is the collar that slips in there and then slips on the other end that on choke.
Okay, we got the bag coming out of there; then the hose attached right there. Everything's taped up. All right, here we go. [Music] What you're seeing here is me vacuuming up the insulation; however, it's on the lowest setting right now. It wasn't until after I shot the video, shortly after shooting this demo, that we cranked it all the way up. You know it has the turtle and the rabbit; well, this had the lever all the way to the turtle side. It needs to be where the rabbit is for maximum suction. So, it actually worked even a heck of a lot better than what you're seeing here, which worked really well here too, as well. Very happy with this, but once you crank that all the way up, this thing really, really hums.
It's kind of how it looks when it's almost full and making progress, changing out the bag downstairs right now. All right, these things really puff up, so I'm going to go ahead and change the bag. Well, here's the look at the finished product. I was very happy with the performance of the vacuum. The challenge was navigating around all the wires, trying not to pull them out and damage them, and just trying to maneuver the vacuum around them. One thing I didn't mention was that when we rented the vacuum, it came with 100 feet of hose as well. We were also able to dispose of the insulation at the dump, the local dump, with no issues. They charged us just for construction demo debris. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching.