Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Line and cover structures with insulating materials. May work with batt, roll, or blown insulation materials.
Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall is Also Know as
In different settings, Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall is titled as
- Attic Blower
- Insulation Estimator
- Insulation Installer
- Insulation Mechanic
- Insulation Worker
- Insulator
- Retrofit Installer
- Spray Foam Installer
- Warehouse Insulation Worker
Education and Training of Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
Training Required for Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall in different industries are
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Roofers
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Carpenters
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Tile and Stone Setters
- Carpet Installers
- Pipelayers
- Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Tapers
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Construction Laborers
- Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
What Do Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall do?
- Read blueprints, and select appropriate insulation, based on space characteristics and the heat retaining or excluding characteristics of the material.
- Measure and cut insulation for covering surfaces, using tape measures, handsaws, power saws, knives, or scissors.
- 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.
- Fit, wrap, staple, or glue insulating materials to structures or surfaces, using hand tools or wires.
- Cover, seal, or finish insulated surfaces or access holes with plastic covers, canvas strips, sealants, tape, cement or asphalt mastic.
- Distribute insulating materials evenly into small spaces within floors, ceilings, or walls, using blowers and hose attachments, or cement mortars.
- Fill blower hoppers with insulating materials.
- Move controls, buttons, or levers to start blowers and regulate flow of materials through nozzles.
- Prepare surfaces for insulation application by brushing or spreading on adhesives, cement, or asphalt, or by attaching metal pins to surfaces.
- Remove old insulation, such as asbestos, following safety procedures.
Qualities of Good Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
Tools Used by Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Air compressors
- Air filtering devices
- Asbestos cutters
- Batt knives
- Blower machines
- Caulking guns
- Chalk lines
- Desktop computers
- Filtered vacuum cleaners
- Hammer staplers
- Hole saws
- Hooded protective suits
- Knives
- Ladders
- Notebook computers
- Pneumatic staplers
- Power drills
- Power saws
- Protective suits
- R-value rulers
- Reciprocating saws
- Respirators
- Saws
- Scaffolding
- Scissors
- Screwdrivers
- Sheet metal cutters
- Sheet metal templates
- Staple guns
- Stud scrubbers
- Tape measures
- Trowels
Technology Skills required for Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- CMSN FieldPAK
- Comput-Ability Mechanical Insulation Key Estimator
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Windows
- North American Insulation Manufacturers Association NAIMA 3E Plus
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal