Insulating Victorian Attic Room

We ll show you how proper insulation can help improve your home s efficiency.

Insulating victorian attic room.

Now to do that you have to be very careful to make sure you maintain some ventilation space. Blown in insulation comes in bags that empty into the hopper of a machine that shoots it through a tube and into the attic. That becomes the thermal barrier. You ll need to consider either or both more efficient insulation and some soffiting to get enough room for proper insulation.

Most codes require a specified minimum amount of headroom and it s tough to meet this requirement when insulating a finished attic especially since most codes require insulation equal to r 38 or more. It s quite likely that there is not enough framing space to achieve this with fiberglass batts alone. Shooting blown insulation between the rafters requires the spaces be. And the answer to that is if that attic is going to be a heated finished space then the insulation moves from the ceiling of the second floor up to the underside of the roof rafters.

The soffit vents are now installed but you still need to make sure there s no insulation blocking the new vents. Because the simplest and cheapest way to insulate an attic is to add material to the floor. Schedule your free energy audit with standard insulating today by calling us toll free at 1. To meet all three goals insulating your finished attic ventilating the roof and maximizing headroom use a combination of dense batt insulation rigid foam sheeting and air chutes.

If the attic is insulated with fiberglass batts just pull back any that are blocking the flow of air. In this case the area behind the knee wall will be uncomfortably hot or cold. 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. Plan to pull up the flooring and layer new insulation on top of the old.

800 738 1424 and we ll be happy to help. If only the living space will be insulated wrap the insulation around the room s walls and ceiling and then continue along the floor of the non living space. At a bare minimum you re probably going to need r 19 wall and r 40 roof if not more.