The weekend my garage ceiling nearly caved in from old insulation

I was up in the attic running some new wiring for a light fixture last Saturday, and I stepped wrong onto a old fiberglass batt. The whole section gave way and dumped 15 years of dust and mouse droppings right onto my workbench below. Took me 4 hours with a shop vac and respirator to clean it up. Has anyone else had a hidden attic hazard pop up out of nowhere like that?

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karen_west593d ago

Did you at least get a free blacklight party out of it with all that mouse droppings glowing? I had the same thing happen but with a pack of ancient mothballs that crumbled to dust. My wife thought I was brewing some kind of toxic perfume in the garage, the smell was that strong. Funny how those hidden attic time bombs just wait for you to step wrong.

hannahk193d ago

@karen_west59 nailed it with the blacklight party comment. My garage looked like a crime scene for a solid week after that insulation dropped. Took me three pass-throughs with the shop vac before I stopped coughing up dust every time I walked by. The worst part was finding out the mice had been nesting right above my tool chest for god knows how long. At least you got mothballs, I got decades of rodent souvenirs and a new respect for wearing a hard hat in my own attic.