Urgent help please - DH has just fallen through the loft!!

[Honey1975]

Clearing out the loft for move and dh slipped and has put foot through loft creating a massive hole!
Just recovering from the shock of seeing his leg hanging through the ceiling followed by silence (he is ok thankfully) and now we need to try and patch it up. Not the best time to find a tradesman to help on a Saturday evening.

There's bits of loft insulation floating about & I'm panicking about asbestos being in it.

Trying to keep dd downstairs.

Has this happened to anyone and what did you do?
I'm a bit shaken up to be honest.🙁

if the insulation is yellow glassfibre (most probable) then it can shed irritant dust and fibres. Also lofts are usually full of old dust.

I suffer quite badly from it, so as well as showering, washing hair, eyes and clothes to remove it, I would also damp-sponge up any visible dust, then hoover with a modern vac. The white or silver bags are better than the old paper ones, and most recent vacs have an exhaust filter that can be washed or replaced. Very old vacs don't capture fine dust, they just spray it into the air.

If you have a cat I wouldn't want it licking fibreglass off its fur.

BTW if you ever want to lay loft insulation, use the brown stuff treated with Ecose (it will be marked on the packaging) which prevents it shedding irritant dust and fibres. I won't touch the yellow stuff now.

Thanks Piglet the insulation does appear to be brown.