Fibre glass on clothes

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I was given the dubious task of laying insulation in the loft since I was the only one small enough to fit in the corners.

Can I wash the horrible itchy scratchy stuff out of the clothes? Or will the fibres just be left in the washing machine contaminating other laundry? Don't want to make everyone else itchy!

from my experience, you can wash them (on their own). The fibres break into shorter pieces during washing. You can look in the pump filter afterwards but I doubt there will be any in there. After the fibres have broken into dust, they are no longer like little needles so I've never found them an irritant.

Hanging the clothes on the line on a blowy day will also help any residue blow out.

Too late for you, but I suffer from dust and now only use the brown mineral quilt made by Knauf which is treated with Ecose. it prevents it shedding fibres or dust. It is sold as an own-brand by IIRC Wickes and B&Q, but look for the word Ecose on the packaging. It is not yellow fibreglass.

Thanks I will give it a go. We had some rock wool slabs left over from insulating other parts of the house so used them to top up the existing stuff in the loft - the rockwool wasn't that bad as it's compressed but I had to wade through the existing horrible yellow stuff which was getting everywhere. At least that's one job I won't have to do again for a very long time.