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Posted by Slightly Graying Wolf on June 1, 2008, 12:15 pm
aemeijers wrote:
> CJT wrote:
>> Phisherman wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:01:27 -0700 (PDT),
>>> google@remodelingsuccess.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Attic Access Insulation
>>>> http://www.brandsconstruction.com/phpBB/viewtopic.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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