Insulation, Radiant and Vapor Barriers - Insulation Fibers In My Clothes

I had to crawl around the attic today. I don't know anything about insulation except what color it is. The attic had one layer of the pink stuff in four foot sections, and that was covered by several inches of the white stuff blown on top of it. The house was built in the seventies. I was literally swimming through this stuff in search of an electrical problem (found and fixed).

I was wearing blue jeans and a long sleeve t-shirt and a paint respirator. My question: Will the insulation fibers in my clothes ever come out in the wash, or should I just throw them in the trash. I don't want to wear those clothes if they are going to be itchy, and I don't want any residual fibers to be sluffed off onto the furniture or the girlfriend.

Thanks for any advice.

Normally I believe they say wash the clothes (all of them, socks and underwear included) in cold water with multiple rinse cycles...or wash them twice using no soap for the second wash.

Only those clothes in the load...nothing else.

Thanks, Gunguy, I had planned to wash them separately twice, I just wanted to ask here first before I wasted my time only to find out later that it isn't worth the effort.

Ya, you should be fine washing the cloths a couple of times.
You need to be aware though that a paint respirator will not protect you fully from insulation fibers.

A paint respirator has activated carbon as its main filtering media and is geared to absorbing organic vapors.
You need a cartridge specifically made for fine particulate.
The best of this type is labeled as an N95 respirator and is the type that will also protect against mold spores and asbestos.

A paint respirator has activated carbon as its main filtering media and is geared to absorbing organic vapors.
You need a cartridge specifically made for fine particulate.
The best of this type is labeled as an N95 respirator and is the type that will also protect against mold spores and asbestos.

I'm surprised to know that. I could not imagine that a fiberglass fiber would be smaller than a vapor molecule. I figured that insulation particulate would not make it through a carbon filter. I'll take your word about this, but if what you say is true then the carbon paint filter must not be very densely packed. :confused: