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Originally Posted by NeilTheCop
...so the cheapest insulation was the recycled newspaper bales, plus they let us use the machine to blow it in for free.
Horrible mistake because every time I went into the attic I returned with at least half a pound of the insulation stuck to my clothes, even more if I was sweating. The insulation would then find it's way into everything.
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I've heard this very same complaint before.
I know that in Germany, and other European countries, dense packed cellulose is all the rage because it is effective, provides some degree of thermal mass, to mediate not only humidity changes but also temperature changes, and very importantly, it sequesters carbon, while having a very low amount of embodied energy when converting from newspaper to insulation.
Maybe their secret is that they seal the built structure well enough that there is extremely low air leakage, so it follows that there would be extremely low cellulose leakage also.
-AC