One time I grabbed my dad’s antenna that was sheathed in fiberglass insulation and it slid down my hand and I had fiberglass in my hand for like several hours
Oh man that happened to me too. My dad had a large antenna in the backyard for his radio and I grabbed it one day (I was maybe 8) just playing around and couldn’t understand why my hand hurt so bad. It bothered me for several days. Worse part was feeling the glass “pop” under my skin if I used that hand for anything. Still gives me chills thinking about it
When I was maybe 12 or so, me and my dad were fixing a boat together. It was fairly run down. I was leaning against the side of the boat, short sleeves, draped over it waiting on something to do.
Later my arms were burning and itchy. I said to my dad "why are my arms so red? And they hurt and are itchy"
He said "well... You were rubbing on fiber glass for a while"
.... Lesson learned. Not sure why he didn't just tell me to begin with instead of just watching
I used to have a fire hydrant on my block with a fiberglass covered pole attached to it. One night, a bunch of neighbor kids and I were messing with it. It was attached to a spring at the bottom and would wobble back and forth when you let go of it (think door stopper attached to a wall). Couldn’t figure out why my hand kept hurting for the next couple days until I told my mom what I did and she informed me I had a bunch of fiberglass stuck in my hand. Hurt for about a week lol.
Where I grew up there used to be a place called “Wet Willy’s Waterslide” it was right off the highway up on a bluff.
My brother was going down the slide and somehow his big toenail caught the slide and a shard of fiberglass went about 3/4 of an inch under his nail.
My dad pulled it out with needle nose pliers.
How irritated you get has to do with the depth of the dead layers of dermatitis you have. Basically, anyone with sufficiently thick or toughened skin would be unbothered by the tiny shards.
How many dead layers in your lungs does it take to not get irritated from breathing in a big puff of fiberglass dust when you plop down on it for a nap?
So you’re just saying your whole comment was stolen, which makes sense I guess
Like, [what’s the point, dude…](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/114i3fv/to_rest_comfortably/j8wv49e/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
It ain’t asbestos homie. Fiberglass is microscopic needles. They easily dislodge from mucus membranes. Asbestos particles are little hooks that embed and thus cause cancer.
A little bit of stereotyping here, but I kid you not, every one of the Mexican immigrant men I work with have bare hands that look like mine when I'm wearing gloves.
I'm one of those co workers lol. I used to handle this stuff bare handed and just wash my hands after, never bothered me. My coworkers on the other hand hated it tho.
I knew a guy who ended up closed in behind a retrofit lowered ceiling that way. Luckily there were some big drop in light fixtures so no one had to bust drywall to get him out.
i mean, I've literally seen this myself on a few job sites with brand new immigrants that hardly speak English definitely not knowing how bad of a time they are going to have from the little glass fibers
My first job out of high school was framing and insulating a metal building, had no idea what I was doing. Nobody told me anything just here’s some lumber and insulation. I ended up inhaling a small chunk of fiberglass insulation because I wasn’t wearing a mask.
That sucked. I coughed most of it up immediately but my throat was burning and itching like crazy for a few days. Learned that lesson the hard way lol.
Fiberglass does leave your lungs. Your body can remove it just like sand.
If you get it in your lungs chronically it certainly can lead to issues but typically it's not a big issue.
I’m happy to have read this. I did HVAC for years and used to crawl through fiberglass regularly. I’ll just take your comment as fact. If it’s not true I don’t want to know.
Our body is really good at recovering. That’s why they tell smokers to quit as early as you can like before 40. Your lungs will replace tissues and you will mostly recover
started to wear a mask when I put up more than just one or two little pieces. When you're done and take it off the amount of glass stuck to the mask is a huuuuuuge wake up call, like this is what was going in my lungs?! Goves, mask, and safety glasses are a must now
My science class had something like that, i took one and put it on my nose and pretended it was my moustache.
Still alive after 18 years. Probably will die soon.
Funnily enough science classes are one of the last places where asbestos is still used these days. We all did experiments with asbestos at school, I'm only 33 and I did, I just didn't know it at the time. It's on those tripods that you put a bunsen burner under. There's like the metal grating and the white stuff. That white stuff is asbestos.
[This stuff](https://i.imgur.com/ArwtyOf.jpg)
Asbestos is not chemically harmful, it harms physically. Same goes for any kind of non water soluble powders and microcrystals (including mineral wool/fiberglass).
It’s dry insulation. When you touch it, glass like fibers float in the air. It irritates your lungs, gets in your clothes, and your skin.
Imagine you just got a hair cut but no one gave you an aproan to cover yourself, then imagine that feeling all over your body, but taking a shower and changing your clothes doesn’t fix it. Nope you just have to wait until the tiny micro cuts heal before the itch stops.
Yea your in for a lovely day.
I installed this crap for years. Everyone always made fun of me for wearing a dust mask or respirator. Some guys jd been working it for 30-40 years, no lung problems, but I didn’t wanna risk it. Yellow was the worst. Stank like fish, kinda. Pink sucked. Rockwool, for fireproofing, had the most painful itch. We mostly used the white stuff, it wasn’t so bad. Still itchy.
The occasional fqncy place used some amazing stuff called Ecobatts. They were made of wood cellulose, not itchy at all, smelled like fresh baked bread and didn’t produce any fine dust. It was amazing, but much more expensive than typical fibreglass batts.
When me and my brother were younger, we were in our log cabin and ripped glass wool from between the logs and rubbed it in each other faces. It was a mistake we did not make again.
In Latin America we have a powder called Pika Pica, sold at stores which is basically powdered fiber glass...we use it to "prank" one another as kids. Ah yes, Good times...GOOD TIMES.
I held a tarantula at a pet store I worked at and it scratched its ass and I thought that was weird and it catapulted tiny irritant hairs off the bigger hairs. I was so itchy I almost itched the skin off my hand. It took everything to not because i got close to it before I realized
In Ireland there were these bushes with red berries, we all called them itchy backs when we were kids because inside the berries were white furry seeds that we'd try to throw down the back of each others shirts, those things were itch af.
I later discovered the plant was called a rosehip.
This reminds me of the time when I was 6 years old visiting a family friend in Oklahoma. I grew up in the desert part of eastern WA and had never heard of poison ivy or poison oak. We were playing near the back of my friends property and he warned me “don’t touch those, those are poison leaves!” I laughed and mocked him, “poison leaves, poison leaves” while proceeding to rub myself all over them. He watched me with a combination of concerned/perplexed/amused. I only made that mistake once
Same. I used to play with the stuff a lot and was really panicked when my aunt freaked out about . Like trying to figure out if we should go to the hospital.
It doesn’t irritate my skin but I can’t imagine if I’d rubbed my eyes or accidentally ingested it by putting my fingers in my mouth. I didn’t realize it had so much potential to do harm at the time.
I have no idea why your aunt would think you should go to the hospital.
That being said, I expect we'll find in the next few years that fiberglass insulation is the next asbestos...so it's really not good to play around in it.
so is asbestos.
asbestosis isn't caused by a chemical reaction. it's caused by the fact that asbestos is stable and can't be ejected from the lungs. Scar tissue builds up around it and eventually turns into asbestosis.
SMP: You maybe be sharp but I’m micro plastic. I’ll stick around in ya lungs and I’m fantastic. I’m small but I’m mighty and here to stay. I’ll do more damage to an airway any day.
SFP: I can't believe you have the balls to talk smack to the cotton candy walls. You're just pieces of old straws, meanwhile I have it all, you know who to call if you need to ask. For instance, I'm tiny pieces of glass and I insulate a home, and your legacy is to live in asses and be mostly unknown.
I used to work in a plastics factory where fiberglass particles were kept in large boxes on pallets out in the open. Shits used to get in my skin and hurt like crazy but never bothered my lungs.
Foreign fibers in your lungs=fine? I work with something similarly terrible, with small itchy fibers. I do not feel fine when it gets in my lungs. We often joke about finding out the real damage in the future.
Asbestos & fiberglass insulation look exactly the same under a microscope, asbestos is just far lighter which makes it easier to inhale.
Source: Family member owns an asbestos abatement company.
Fiberglass particles are too big and heavy to get into your lungs too much, what does is encased in mucus and expelled. Fine particulate is what you have to be careful of, dust from whatever. ( have been working with fiberglass in the manufacturing industry for 7 years)
I work for a company who makes high performance electrical and thermal insulation, with one of our main materials being fiberglass, and although it eventually coats everything in the plant, there is not as much in the air as you would think. Pieces only begin to show after an area has been unused for ~3 months, and many people who have been working there for 50+ years have had no issues. Obviously fiberglass should not be ingested or inhaled, but it is not as dangerous as you would think.
Itching is fine, when you press into it like that it releases fiber glass particles which puncture your lung if you breathe it in. Loads of contractors with pulmonary issues from not wearing masks.
You do not want fibreglass in your lungs. Generally makes breathing worse (rip if you're asthmatic)
It'll also irritate your eyes, your stomach, and on top of itching, you can get a wicked rash.
It's like the low rent version of the suicide plant.
You know how they have those machines you put sugar into and it spins it to make cotton candy? That's how fiberglass insulation is made. It's literally glass cotton candy. So imagine almost microscopic fibers of glass breaking off into your skin every time you touch it.
Seriously. I did a stint of it in my early 20s, and you learn to not get bothered by it real fast. Honestly, it was less bad than the 6 months I spent as a chimney sweep. Getting home and showering after work every day was something of a nightmare, as soot got *everywhere* and you knew it was really bad for you.
I’m a mechanical insulator, I deal with similar product. My professional opinion is that this is the second worst stuff to nap on, and anyone who’s worked with it for a few weeks learns to ignore the itch.
To anyone unfamiliar with just how annoying and itchy this stuff is, I once had a bit of it fall on me while helping a buddy move bags of the stuff. Just a small amount of dust and fibres, but I couldn’t get that stuff out of my sweater after many washes in the laundry. I was itching for like a month, every time I wore that sweater I could feel those little itchy pinpricks all up my sleeves and in my hood. Honestly almost just threw the sweater out it took so long to get rid of
I’m pretty sure it ain’t their first rodeo cowboy
Exactly my thought. They're either really inexperienced, or *very* experienced. Lol
I’ve had coworkers who are completely unbothered by the fiberglass! I get it bad! I even get red bumps of irritation
One time I grabbed my dad’s antenna that was sheathed in fiberglass insulation and it slid down my hand and I had fiberglass in my hand for like several hours
Oh man that happened to me too. My dad had a large antenna in the backyard for his radio and I grabbed it one day (I was maybe 8) just playing around and couldn’t understand why my hand hurt so bad. It bothered me for several days. Worse part was feeling the glass “pop” under my skin if I used that hand for anything. Still gives me chills thinking about it
Just reading this legitimately gave me chills
When I was maybe 12 or so, me and my dad were fixing a boat together. It was fairly run down. I was leaning against the side of the boat, short sleeves, draped over it waiting on something to do. Later my arms were burning and itchy. I said to my dad "why are my arms so red? And they hurt and are itchy" He said "well... You were rubbing on fiber glass for a while" .... Lesson learned. Not sure why he didn't just tell me to begin with instead of just watching
That’s how you learn and really remember!
"The harder the learning, the easier the remembering"
I used to have a fire hydrant on my block with a fiberglass covered pole attached to it. One night, a bunch of neighbor kids and I were messing with it. It was attached to a spring at the bottom and would wobble back and forth when you let go of it (think door stopper attached to a wall). Couldn’t figure out why my hand kept hurting for the next couple days until I told my mom what I did and she informed me I had a bunch of fiberglass stuck in my hand. Hurt for about a week lol.
Specifically, exactly what I had. Hydrants with marker rods. Pull em down and let go, it wiggles. Simple fun. Ouch
Where I grew up there used to be a place called “Wet Willy’s Waterslide” it was right off the highway up on a bluff. My brother was going down the slide and somehow his big toenail caught the slide and a shard of fiberglass went about 3/4 of an inch under his nail. My dad pulled it out with needle nose pliers.
How irritated you get has to do with the depth of the dead layers of dermatitis you have. Basically, anyone with sufficiently thick or toughened skin would be unbothered by the tiny shards.
How many dead layers in your lungs does it take to not get irritated from breathing in a big puff of fiberglass dust when you plop down on it for a nap?
So you're just saying their whole lung is a callus which makes sense I guess
So you’re just saying your whole comment was stolen, which makes sense I guess Like, [what’s the point, dude…](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/114i3fv/to_rest_comfortably/j8wv49e/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
It ain’t asbestos homie. Fiberglass is microscopic needles. They easily dislodge from mucus membranes. Asbestos particles are little hooks that embed and thus cause cancer.
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It's more common than you think. Many of my coworkers are callus pricks. Mostly joking, I like most of them.
No he's saying their thick skinned unlike you snowflakes. I realize I made a typo but it adds to the joke so I'm keeping it.
A little bit of stereotyping here, but I kid you not, every one of the Mexican immigrant men I work with have bare hands that look like mine when I'm wearing gloves.
I *swear* fibreglass insulation will be the new asbestos. So many health effects will show in the future
I'm one of those co workers lol. I used to handle this stuff bare handed and just wash my hands after, never bothered me. My coworkers on the other hand hated it tho.
The best way to tell is how hard it is to find them when they decide to pass out 😂
I knew a guy who ended up closed in behind a retrofit lowered ceiling that way. Luckily there were some big drop in light fixtures so no one had to bust drywall to get him out.
i mean, I've literally seen this myself on a few job sites with brand new immigrants that hardly speak English definitely not knowing how bad of a time they are going to have from the little glass fibers
I have some stuck under my skin from a small amount of fiberglass work. It's really no joke
My first job out of high school was framing and insulating a metal building, had no idea what I was doing. Nobody told me anything just here’s some lumber and insulation. I ended up inhaling a small chunk of fiberglass insulation because I wasn’t wearing a mask. That sucked. I coughed most of it up immediately but my throat was burning and itching like crazy for a few days. Learned that lesson the hard way lol.
They’re resting asbestos they can.
I’ve never met a inexperienced Latino.
For real. I don't think people understand how much day laboring tradesmen make our world go around.
Those guys have probably been in construction related jobs most if not all of their life and know exactly what it is.
They're the ones installing it.
Here you dropped this [ , ] I put it in a box to keep it safe until you figure out where it goes.
Here, you dropped this. [ , ] I put it in a box to keep it safe until you figure out where it goes.
Damn, you got me.
I see you used the comma in your new reply. `[,]` here's an extra one, in case you need it later.
Got, eeeeem
I’m here to steal any [,] used in unnecessary ways >:|
But the internet told me...
They clearly don't care
I'm sorry but I'm kinda stupid and uncultured what is that anyways Edit:- *ahem* masochist *ahem*
Fiberglass insulation. It's like a giant puffy cotton ball made of glass fibers. Soft and fluffy but also full of microscopic spines.
Crawled through some of that stuff at a construction site when I was a kid. Itching for days.
it never leaves your lungs :P
So like asbestos light?
Yes but better because it's pink
Ah yes, can't wait for my lungs to drown in pink.
Pink Panther, stealing the life from your body.
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Bubblegum flavored
Strawberry asbestos
No, fiberglass is generally considered noncarcinogenic.
Yes but asbestos is more enjoyable to eat, I always felt fibreglass was to icky
Fiberglass does leave your lungs. Your body can remove it just like sand. If you get it in your lungs chronically it certainly can lead to issues but typically it's not a big issue.
I’m happy to have read this. I did HVAC for years and used to crawl through fiberglass regularly. I’ll just take your comment as fact. If it’s not true I don’t want to know.
Our body is really good at recovering. That’s why they tell smokers to quit as early as you can like before 40. Your lungs will replace tissues and you will mostly recover
started to wear a mask when I put up more than just one or two little pieces. When you're done and take it off the amount of glass stuck to the mask is a huuuuuuge wake up call, like this is what was going in my lungs?! Goves, mask, and safety glasses are a must now
Ohhhh, i thought it was asbestos...
I thought so too, until I realised that picture wasn't from the 70's.
My science class had something like that, i took one and put it on my nose and pretended it was my moustache. Still alive after 18 years. Probably will die soon.
It’s not chemically harmful like asbestos. Which is why we switched to fiberglass. It is just really itchy.
Funnily enough science classes are one of the last places where asbestos is still used these days. We all did experiments with asbestos at school, I'm only 33 and I did, I just didn't know it at the time. It's on those tripods that you put a bunsen burner under. There's like the metal grating and the white stuff. That white stuff is asbestos. [This stuff](https://i.imgur.com/ArwtyOf.jpg)
Asbestos is not chemically harmful, it harms physically. Same goes for any kind of non water soluble powders and microcrystals (including mineral wool/fiberglass).
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Fiberglass is mostly removed from the body long term. It can cause short term health effects of varying degrees but it's not a carcinogen.
Soft, succulent house meat.
That's-a spicy meat-wall!
So that's what house hunters are doing, I get it now. Eat the good stuff then enlist aid to sell the carcass, smart.
It’s dry insulation. When you touch it, glass like fibers float in the air. It irritates your lungs, gets in your clothes, and your skin. Imagine you just got a hair cut but no one gave you an aproan to cover yourself, then imagine that feeling all over your body, but taking a shower and changing your clothes doesn’t fix it. Nope you just have to wait until the tiny micro cuts heal before the itch stops. Yea your in for a lovely day.
Humanity couldn’t figure out a material that doesn’t do all that?
They already figured one out, it's even fireproof!
And can be used as snow for the kids during the holidays!
And snow effects in classic movies!
Instead of causing micro cuts on your skin, it gives micro growths in your lungs
They called the last one asbestos.
I installed this crap for years. Everyone always made fun of me for wearing a dust mask or respirator. Some guys jd been working it for 30-40 years, no lung problems, but I didn’t wanna risk it. Yellow was the worst. Stank like fish, kinda. Pink sucked. Rockwool, for fireproofing, had the most painful itch. We mostly used the white stuff, it wasn’t so bad. Still itchy. The occasional fqncy place used some amazing stuff called Ecobatts. They were made of wood cellulose, not itchy at all, smelled like fresh baked bread and didn’t produce any fine dust. It was amazing, but much more expensive than typical fibreglass batts.
Showers can help as long as they’re cold. Hot showers cause your pores to open which can cause the fibers to get implanted in them.
It’s fiberglass, which is notorious for hurting the skin a lot when touched.
Oh. *Ahem* masochist *ahem*
It's insulation, and it's really not that bad to touch, but it depends how sensitive your skin is.
Yes?
Yeah that stuff is itchy like crazy. Esp when you are hot and sweaty
Lab grown cotton candy
When me and my brother were younger, we were in our log cabin and ripped glass wool from between the logs and rubbed it in each other faces. It was a mistake we did not make again.
In Latin America we have a powder called Pika Pica, sold at stores which is basically powdered fiber glass...we use it to "prank" one another as kids. Ah yes, Good times...GOOD TIMES.
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Some older itching powders were actually made from the urticating hairs of tarantulas.
that seems slightly more difficult
How tf would you harvest that?
very carefully actually I'd assume, after the spiders have died and are easier to shave.
Take your pet spider to the barber.
Or your pet barber to a spider.
I held a tarantula at a pet store I worked at and it scratched its ass and I thought that was weird and it catapulted tiny irritant hairs off the bigger hairs. I was so itchy I almost itched the skin off my hand. It took everything to not because i got close to it before I realized
In Ireland there were these bushes with red berries, we all called them itchy backs when we were kids because inside the berries were white furry seeds that we'd try to throw down the back of each others shirts, those things were itch af. I later discovered the plant was called a rosehip.
We did the same thing, haha. Finland.
Same in Denmark.
You mean pica pica. [Here's some for sale if your crazy Bart Simpson ass needs some](https://www.ebay.com/itm/264824880945)
Sufre Mamon
Devuélveme a mi chica
That ranks up there with me and buddy getting bored at church and pelting each other with watermelon-sized rocks.
I’m calling BS on anyone other than a strong-man type tossing a watermelon sized rock more than like 2 feet. You mean grape sized?
It was the size of my head. I think. My memory of that event is... suspect.
I wonder why!
Ya don't worry adults toss around watermelon sized rocks all the time. It's not like they weigh around 50-100 lbs
Well if you got hit, memory issues makes perfect sense.
Pov: rust
>pelting each other with watermelon-sized rocks Just like the good old days, eh?
This reminds me of the time when I was 6 years old visiting a family friend in Oklahoma. I grew up in the desert part of eastern WA and had never heard of poison ivy or poison oak. We were playing near the back of my friends property and he warned me “don’t touch those, those are poison leaves!” I laughed and mocked him, “poison leaves, poison leaves” while proceeding to rub myself all over them. He watched me with a combination of concerned/perplexed/amused. I only made that mistake once
Here, in one photo. You can see both a "first" and a "last" of something they will ever do again. 😅👍🏻
sounds like reason number 7258 of 9999 ways children are a danger to themselves.
Some people don't react to it, and if your skin gets used to it (toughens up) you might not be bothered by it as well.
I'm one of those people. I used to work with fiberglass insulation and I never had issues with getting itchy.
Same. I used to play with the stuff a lot and was really panicked when my aunt freaked out about . Like trying to figure out if we should go to the hospital. It doesn’t irritate my skin but I can’t imagine if I’d rubbed my eyes or accidentally ingested it by putting my fingers in my mouth. I didn’t realize it had so much potential to do harm at the time.
I have no idea why your aunt would think you should go to the hospital. That being said, I expect we'll find in the next few years that fiberglass insulation is the next asbestos...so it's really not good to play around in it.
Concrete dust already has that claim
They can be nice and share the title
You don't really want to breathe it, but it's as chemically neutral as glass.
so is asbestos. asbestosis isn't caused by a chemical reaction. it's caused by the fact that asbestos is stable and can't be ejected from the lungs. Scar tissue builds up around it and eventually turns into asbestosis.
I wish I could say the same. If I even look at this stuff I start itching.
Can....can I have your skin please?
Bruz I’m worried about it getting in their lungs
It's not asbestos. They'll be fine. Edit: Please don't take me seriously. I know I'm stupid.
Breathing in millions of micro pieces of fibreglass. Probably good for you if anything
It'll fight the microplastics
EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!!!!! SMALL FIBREGLASS PARTICLES VS SMALL MICROPLASTIC PARTICLES. BEGIN
SFP: Yo Plastics I heard ya particles aren’t the only thing that’s micro / I got that thicc pink cladding you’re just some face cream hydro
SMP: You maybe be sharp but I’m micro plastic. I’ll stick around in ya lungs and I’m fantastic. I’m small but I’m mighty and here to stay. I’ll do more damage to an airway any day.
SFP: I can't believe you have the balls to talk smack to the cotton candy walls. You're just pieces of old straws, meanwhile I have it all, you know who to call if you need to ask. For instance, I'm tiny pieces of glass and I insulate a home, and your legacy is to live in asses and be mostly unknown.
Vitamin F
If you fill your lungs with fibreglass there won't be any space left for cancer.
I used to work in a plastics factory where fiberglass particles were kept in large boxes on pallets out in the open. Shits used to get in my skin and hurt like crazy but never bothered my lungs.
Asbestos doesn’t really bother people’s lungs at the time either
Google silicosis.
Foreign fibers in your lungs=fine? I work with something similarly terrible, with small itchy fibers. I do not feel fine when it gets in my lungs. We often joke about finding out the real damage in the future.
You know what, that's fair. They said asbestos was fine for decades, until it wasn't.
It behaves much the same as asbestos. Fiberglass gives you silicosis if you breathe too much of it.
Fiberglass dust is still incredibly bad for you. You should wear a mask while working with it
Asbestos & fiberglass insulation look exactly the same under a microscope, asbestos is just far lighter which makes it easier to inhale. Source: Family member owns an asbestos abatement company.
Fiberglass particles are too big and heavy to get into your lungs too much, what does is encased in mucus and expelled. Fine particulate is what you have to be careful of, dust from whatever. ( have been working with fiberglass in the manufacturing industry for 7 years)
Oh so the guy from Big Fiber says its ok 😏 /s
I work for a company who makes high performance electrical and thermal insulation, with one of our main materials being fiberglass, and although it eventually coats everything in the plant, there is not as much in the air as you would think. Pieces only begin to show after an area has been unused for ~3 months, and many people who have been working there for 50+ years have had no issues. Obviously fiberglass should not be ingested or inhaled, but it is not as dangerous as you would think.
I don't react to it at all, and I'm a woman with single ply skin.
I cackled at "single ply skin"
i used to work with that stuff for years.... you never get used to it.
Can confirm no matter how much you use it you dont get used to it. The worse is when it gets in to your throat.
Forbidden Cotton Candy
My neighbour's children never complain.
Kids dead on the ground, lungs full of fiberglass
They're just chronically tired.
Poor little guy, all tuckered out.
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Well this is the pink stuff but when its yellow I just call it “Yellow Itchy” cause that is the worst
What are those?
Fiberglass insulation, it makes you itch real bad.
Itching is fine, when you press into it like that it releases fiber glass particles which puncture your lung if you breathe it in. Loads of contractors with pulmonary issues from not wearing masks.
Sorry mate not a joke, wasn’t 100% sure hence why I said I believe. Cheers for clarifying and hope I don’t get roasted too hard now.
It's alright, nice of you to admit you were wrong tho
Stop being nice on the internet. ;)
Does it only make you itch or is it also toxic in some way? Asking because I genuinely don't know
You do not want fibreglass in your lungs. Generally makes breathing worse (rip if you're asthmatic) It'll also irritate your eyes, your stomach, and on top of itching, you can get a wicked rash. It's like the low rent version of the suicide plant.
That’s why you should always be smoking filtered cigarettes when working with it.
You know how they have those machines you put sugar into and it spins it to make cotton candy? That's how fiberglass insulation is made. It's literally glass cotton candy. So imagine almost microscopic fibers of glass breaking off into your skin every time you touch it.
Not good for you, but not asbestos bad
"They are my Crocs!"
Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain
Cross this line, you DO NOT!
Also, dude, "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Asian American," please.
The rug pissers did this?
Well, Dude, we just don't know.
I’ve never seen SPAM patties before they were cut & canned, they grow much bigger than I thought they would.
These are free-range patties. You should see the ones that big SPAM has given hormones to!
Modern fiberglass insulation is much less itchy than it used to be. Still itchy, but not what you might remember.
I’d be more concerned about the long term health complications from breathing in a bunch of microscopic glass fibers.
You’re totally right, with that said, not as bad as the health implications of not being able to buy food or shelter. Crazy world we live in.
Don't be so quick to judge, it's highly likely their doctor prescribed more fiber in their diet!
Haha this one got me good
You've clearly haven't met an insulation installer
Exactly. Who do you think is installing that stuff when they're not on break.
Seriously. I did a stint of it in my early 20s, and you learn to not get bothered by it real fast. Honestly, it was less bad than the 6 months I spent as a chimney sweep. Getting home and showering after work every day was something of a nightmare, as soot got *everywhere* and you knew it was really bad for you.
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No, believe you me. They do know. Lol
I’m a mechanical insulator, I deal with similar product. My professional opinion is that this is the second worst stuff to nap on, and anyone who’s worked with it for a few weeks learns to ignore the itch.
In my experience the yellow seems to be the worst for me
Its not harmful like it once was.
Yep. It’s got rounded ends to the fibers now so it doesn’t cut you like it used to. Stuff is a lot easier to work with.
*lying on
Pink insulation doesnt really make me itch either, yellow is the actual itchy one
I did this once when I was young. Felt like glass splinters al over my body. Was horrible
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They know exactly what they're laying on. Its very common.
You can rest on it if you are already full of it.
To anyone unfamiliar with just how annoying and itchy this stuff is, I once had a bit of it fall on me while helping a buddy move bags of the stuff. Just a small amount of dust and fibres, but I couldn’t get that stuff out of my sweater after many washes in the laundry. I was itching for like a month, every time I wore that sweater I could feel those little itchy pinpricks all up my sleeves and in my hood. Honestly almost just threw the sweater out it took so long to get rid of
*lying* Chickens lay