Attic Access Insulation
Attic Access Insulation
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Attic Access Insulation
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. --- aem sends... |
Attic Access Insulation
aemeijers wrote:
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. Adding insulation into the attic is my next project. We need to add another 10" of blown-in insulation but before we do I want to run some 2 x 8's and 2 x 10's across the joists at a diagonal (just a strip down the middle about 6 to 8' wide) so that once the insulation is blown in I can put in a floor for storage and access. A man has to have a place to put his treasures (out of his wife's sight). |
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