Spent three hours on a crawl space that should have taken twenty minutes

Got a call for a new drop in a split-level house, figured it was a simple crawl. Opened the access panel and found the entire subfloor cavity packed with old, collapsed fiberglass insulation. It was like a pink, itchy snowdrift blocking every possible route. Had to suit up, clear a path by hand, and still ended up with a layer of that stuff in my hair. Anyone have a better method for dealing with a buried crawl space besides just digging through it?

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taylor_fox2d ago

Oh man, "pink itchy snowdrift" is the perfect way to put it, that stuff is evil. I'm just picturing you emerging from that hole looking like a sad, defeated cotton candy machine. My method is just a lot of swearing and then a very long shower, lmao. Honestly sometimes the old school crawl and haul is the only way through that mess.

the_tara2d ago

Man, that pink snowdrift is the worst. Ever try a cheap leaf blower from the access point first? Might save you the full suit-up for at least some of it.