Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall

Key skills

A typical day

• •Measure and cut insulation for covering surfaces, using tape measures, handsaws, power saws, knives, or scissors.
• •Fit, wrap, staple, or glue insulating materials to structures or surfaces, using hand tools or wires.
• •Cover and line structures with blown or rolled forms of materials to insulate against cold, heat, or moisture, using saws, knives, rasps, trowels, blowers, or other tools and implements.
• •Distribute insulating materials evenly into small spaces within floors, ceilings, or walls, using blowers and hose attachments, or cement mortars.
• •Move controls, buttons, or levers to start blowers and regulate flow of materials through nozzles.

Fields of study

Any field