Cutting insulation board with Bosch Soft Material jigsaw blades

A review of the Bosch Soft Material T313AW jigsaw blades and in particular cutting PIR insulation board. These blades are for cutting any soft material such as rubber, carpet, foam, polystyrene etc. They are particularly good at cutting foam insulation board and do not create any dust whatsoever.
You can purchase these blades from amzn.to/3VfHnYt

[@grim-upnorth]

Brilliant, you've convinced me..
I'm currently building a garden room, I built a timber base and insulated it with 50mm PIR. I cut it with an old wood saw, like what you showed early in your video. Far too much dust and it was really difficult keeping the cut 90 degrees from the top surface to the bottom. I'm just about to cut some 75mm PIR for in between my roof joists and going off my experience with the saw, I wanted a better and cleaner cutting method.
I saw this blade for sale on screwfix and wasn't really sure, until I found this video... so I've just ordered a pack of 3 and can't wait to cut my PIR nice and clean like you 🙂

[@clivewilkinson5394]

These blades are awesome! Even more awesome! When you can resharpen them. I used a simple hand held pull through sharpener from eBay for less than £6 .0 . One side ceramic. Pulled the blade through 5 or 6 times each end of sharpener . Like a new blade. The sharpener is cheaper than new blades.

[@stephenryan5280]

Do you have a link for the sharpener please?

[@HabAnagarek]

I'm using this on 2" pink foam board, 250 psi, been working great. Took me just a little bit to get used to it, but man what a difference to using a regular saw blade.

[@f2air]

I've been using these and the slightly longer Festool 204345 blades. Currently have a preference for the Festool blade. Both produce wavy cuts when cutting long (8ft, 2.4m) but that's an interesting tip about grinding them short, I will try that.

[@clivewilkinson5394]

They can also be used in a hand held saw that takes jigsaw blades, for me they work equally as well. Especially for hole cutting by hand rather than jigsaw.

[@jimblack6733]

Thanks for the tip. Works great!!!!

[@stevenewbank]

Thanks 👍

[@gstephengoss1]

I wonder will these cut homasote?

[@kitchensexpert8242]

Bought them

[@anythingreviewed]

Glad the video helped. Happy with them?

[@kitchensexpert8242]

@@anythingreviewed not taken them out the packet yet lol

[@Radek6]

Do you think I would cut mineral wool insulation with it?

[@anythingreviewed]

I've not tried. But I suspect no, as cutting that with a jigsaw would be awkward. I was installing some rock wool this week and used a snap-off knife. But any long blade, kitchen knife or bread knife works extremely well.

[@Saintjay101]

You can get a similar product for a reciprocating saw

[@ukaszmalcharek8794]

Can I cut 150mm PIR as well with these?

[@anythingreviewed]

The cutting depth would be about 130mm depending on your jigsaw. But you could snap the board for the last 15-20mm.