Messy Old Attic

Old home insulation is a bit of a rare bird.

Messy old attic.

Collection of penguin paper back books gathering dust from being left on a book shelf for 20 years. Plan to pull up the flooring and layer new insulation on top of the old. But if the floor is covered in plywood you can t stuff enough insulation beneath it to do the job sufficiently not even in warm climates. Old attic insulation is often inefficient and could lead to unnecessarily high energy bills.

Pic source interior of old messy attic stock photo image. An exterior photo of the house above shows the side where the attic and roof goes higher because there s a damn house up there. Because the simplest and cheapest way to insulate an attic is to add material to the floor. Interior of old messy attic.

In contrast a house built using roof trusses will have an attic space full of angled web framing that connects the top chords analogous to rafters to the bottom chord which frames the ceiling beneath the attic space. Mr griff says the floor in the old house is lower than the attic which is only accessible by a small square hole. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but if that old. Luckily homeowners are more likely to find the easier kind which is blown in fiberglass or cellulose insulation.

Exposed beams rafters and roof boards in the attic of an old canadiana cottage style residential fieldstone home circa 1755 gazebo among the green trees in sunny day. The attic floor is a great place to start because even if there is a roof leak there is air flow between the roof and the attic floor that. Dirty attic insulation on the other hand could have been the result of pests like rodents and birds that contaminated the insulation which can lead to an unhealthy home. Pic source messy nessy chic cabinet of chic curiosities pic source.

Open the windows of the attic if possible to vent the air trapped in the attic out and allow fresh air to come in. Run a large fan in the window facing out to draw air from the attic. Once again the moisture gets into the wall assembly and gets absorbed by the insulation where it sits like a dirty sponge soaking into the wood. Spray an air freshener in the room if needed to make the attic a tolerable space to work in.

An attic framed with rafters will provide a fairly open space that can be used for storage or even converted to living space.