On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:53:58 -0500, "mgarvie"
wrote:

I'll most likely never go up in the attic after everything is done and it's
too small an area to do anything with.. I guess my main concern was just
laying them over or under the insulation like they are now even though every
other house here is that way. I just know when I get up there and insulate
later on I'll snag one on my foot and cause a bigger problem. Figured it
would be safer and look better to just fastened them to the underside of the
rafters.

I'm an amateur too. I stapled romex to rafters, but only when the
project was logically related to the top of the space: the power to
the "ceiling" light, to the roof fan, the take off from there to the
light on the side of my house. Even then, I would have to run the
romex down a strut to get to the floor. What are you going to do if
you want to put a light in the middle of a bedroom ceiling? How will
you get from the rafter to that place?

Are you thinking of putting a floor in part of the attic? You don't
want the romex between the floor and the what-do-you-call the
horizontal members, joists in this case too?

How will you snag a foot. Won't the stuff be stapled in place, and if
it is just running over sheet rock, then why is your foot there in the
first place. You'll fall through the ceiling, like someone I know.
(He only went half-way through.)