CJT wrote:
Phisherman wrote:

On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:01:27 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:


Attic Access Insulation
http://www.brandsconstruction.com/ph....php?f=12&t=12

What are your thoughts on stairway pull downs areas and insulation in
this area?



I cut sheet Styrofoam and secured/protected it with thin hardboard.
Also, I made a large cardboard box that slips over the folded stairs.
This box is getting a little raddy after 18 years of use and I will
make a flip-up hardboard hinged cover box someday.

No rush ...


I built a fence out of some scrap 1x8 I had laying around, and screwed
it to the attic floor, to keep the blown-in insulation from cascading
down whenever I opened the attic hatch. (no stairs, just a lift-out
panel.) I made sure to put space at one end to park my butt as I was
climbing up from the stepladder. I then cut several sheets of the
closed-cell foam panel stuff, that drop down inside this 1x8 fence, and
lay over the hatch so as to keep all the heat from rising up out of the
hallway. It is a bit of a PITA to juggle the foam sheets and the hatch
cover so everything falls back in place correctly when you close it up,
but aside from that it works okay, and the price was right, as I had all
the stuff laying around. If I was doing it right, I'd have put a hinged
top lid on, and glued the foam to that. Attic is useless for storage
with the blown-in anyway, so I don't need to open it more than once a
year just to check if it is all still there.

You definitely do need to do something to insulate that access hole,
otherwise your 15" of attic insulation starts acting like about 6", due
to the big heat chimney in the middle of it.


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