Bit of a "wild card" question. How best to Hoover up polystyrene insulation from a roofspsce

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, difflock said:

Petrol, polystyrene, and a blower.

Ignition!

Perhaps I should consult that mad plumber wot built the jetbike et Al.

His name will come back to me.

AhHa!

Colin Furze!

 

Pouring a bit of petrol onto polystyrene beads does reduce the volume a lot

[dumper]

31 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

My incident was definitely caused by a mischievous dog and nothing to do with sex, although I confess I once hoovered in an attempt to get 'it' 

Why would you want to get the dog?

[difflock]

8 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Pouring a bit of petrol onto polystyrene beads does reduce the volume a lot

Thanks OSM, I was aware from messing wi such stuff when younger.(An thinking of a knapsack full of petrol to mist the poly beads proper efficient like!)

But round the daughters hoose, Senior Management could well disaapprove!

An its her birthday today.

[Doug Tait]

4 minutes ago, dumper said:

Why would you want to get the dog?

I hoovered in an attempt to have sex with a woman, that was nothing to do with a dog!

[difflock]

31 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

I hoovered in an attempt to have sex with a woman, that was nothing to do with a dog!

Sigh, typical confession from a married man😁😉😌

[MattyF]

Pouring a bit of petrol onto polystyrene beads does reduce the volume a lot

Isn't it then napalm ?

[nepia]

11 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Pouring a bit of petrol onto polystyrene beads does reduce the volume a lot

A few months back someone on here in the know was saying that polystyrene is the easiest stuff in the world to recycle as it readily dissolves in organic solvents.

His description was that a 55 gallon drum of the solvent would dissolve 'a barn full' of polystyrene before becoming saturated at which point it went back to the manufacturers for making into new beads or blocks or whatever.

 

Is recycling therefore possibly an option?  Does anyone in Ireland do it?

[openspaceman]

4 minutes ago, MattyF said:

Isn't it then napalm ?

no but similar effect

[Stere]

Theres building site locally thats  a small estate of half a dozen polystrene block houses that have being half build & unfinished for the last 5yrs plus must be loose  bits flying all over due to it weathering I reckon...

 

 

[Gav73]

This topic has caused me to suffer a minor flashback! Anyone that has experienced a bean bag bursting incident will appreciate the scale of your task difflock.

I had a similar flashback to when I was a kid. Me, my brother and 2 cousins jumping from the top of the stairs onto a beanbag in the hallway - Christ knows how we didn’t kill ourselves and why didn’t our parents stop us??[emoji848]

Anyway beanbag burst, polystyrene balls all up the walls and ceiling and I can remember my mum hoovering the walls and ceiling every day for about a week to get rid of them all [emoji23]