On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:16:19 GMT, someone wrote:


Are you saying the insulation is on the underside of the roof and not resting
on the floor of the attic? If so, then no, the insulation is doing nothing.
Since you're keeping the air space well ventilated.... If you finish the attic
and make sure that the underside of the roof can breathe, then the insulation
goes on the inside of the roof. That makes the attic an insulated, heated,
usable space.

Well, he's/she's half way there now. It seems like this is a half
attic - there already are finished heated rooms bordering it, and the
walls between these spaces and the "attic" are not insulated.

So the 1st thing he/she needs to do is CLOSE THE WINDOW (during
heating season). And treat this area as a heated space.

Right now, he/she is opening (with the window) this space to the
exterior, with NO insulation between heated rooms and the space in Q.

-v.