To prepare and isolate your attic
How to insulate air seal your attic and so the house does not lose all the heat you need to stay warm this winter. Get your attic up-to-speed with the isolation of one of the most cost-effective measures to impact your home more energy efficient.
Going to the attic usually means one of three things.
1 Your 10 years and trying to play hide and seek.
2 Your 32 years and still have another store precious heirloomgone forever.
3 Your 54 years and have noticed a wet stain on the ceiling and the roof are you afraid of losing.
These are all good reasons to enter the attic, but for now, let's get into the attic, look for the isolation and determine if adding additional insulation would be good - housewarming - Reduction of electricity bills - what to do.
Building codes do not cause isolation level to influence really start until the beginning of the year 1980. If your home was built before 1984,This is a good chance that your attic insulation is the minimum loft. Constructors in 1940 not to isolate anything, developers in 1960 filled the space between the rafters with about 4 inches of insulation. Constructors in 1990, installed 8-inch (R-25 to R-30) of loose insulation fiber glass and by 2000 had reached the level of insulation 12 inches (R-38). Today, depending on the location of the houses have attics, the blown 16-inch insulatedFiberglass (R-49), cellulose or shredded blue jeans.
Yes, shredded blue jeans, I'm seriously torn jeans as insulation in a wall.
Roof insulation is energy efficient if you live in a cold climate and you try to heat and cold, or if you live in a warm climate and try to keep the cold to hot. Keep
Darkness, the isolation of metal fiber wool is likely to appear. A popular in attic insulation50s and 60s. Very effective and not a health hazard. However, the isolation can feel coarse granules ¼ square inches, which, like polystyrene and contrast levels are bright dark vermiculite asbestos. This is because of the nasty stuff it contains asbestos. My advice is to attics with vermiculite to do it professionally removed. Do not touch or disturb this isolation without the guidance of a professional contractor.
Tip - not with the knob and tube wiring and no messManage vermiculite. Call a professional.
If your home was built before 1940, you should be aware of the regulator and tube wiring. This is related to the wiring, ceramic buttons attached, such as frame structures of wood or runs runs through the ceramic tubes when the wire passes through holes in the frame and covered with construction materials. These connections must be replaced by new electrical wiring by a qualified electrician before insulating. If you isolate of knob and tube wiring directly to the threadand a fire to keep warm.
One last thing, to see where, if the attic, framing, just up the structure of the wooden roof beams or in the process. When you step between the framing members, probably stick to the leg through the ceiling and have to patch a hole and a bad devil of a mess to clean up before the little woman back home.
Tip - to offer a place to put your feet while working on sealing in the attic, take a piece of plywood in the attic, which reach moreBeams.
Tools and materials required:
1 face mask base and the light suit. Fabric gloves and goggles or leather.
2 Drop-in light so you can see what you are doing and where you go.
Tip - miner-style headlamps work well here.
3 If you have a fireplace or chimney runs through the attic or ceiling fans and recessed lighting, you need to flash a small role in the league, 18 to 24 cm wide. A pair of shears pond.
4 Canexpanding foam insulation.
5 tube low-cost all-purpose sealing and caulking gun. If you have gas appliances, also take a sealed tube at high temperature.
6 Chutesfor vent positioning of cardboard between the beams in the same place, like any run-blocking vent or a bird. Count how many you need by counting the number of times, or soffit vents from outside the house. The easiest tool to install the gutters is sprayed with the gun or stapler base.
Carton 7 Extrasused as barriers to separate areas where you do not want isolation.
8 1 / 4 inch, # 6 sheet metal screws and a battery drill.
Tip - you get down and threaded screws.
As in the attic before installing the insulation for the preparation:
1 Remove the elements that have been stored in the attic, which has been placed on the heated area of your home, wherever you are going to isolate. Items can be stored above the garage. Cards that have been put in the attic to store items alsomust be removed.
Tip - If you have a garage sale.
2 Take the slide and the seamstress seamstress ventilation and install a slide at any point where one night's outburst. Install insulation slip so he can not move to block the ventilation and airflow from the outside through the vent until the eve of the chute and out the attic. Attic ventilation is important for the health of your attic.
Blinking with 3 pieces of metal from the roll and cut the bedding at high temperature to sealthe exhaust pipe where the pipe comes through the ceiling. Cut a semicircle from the edge of the metal around the pipe and install, such as a collar, instead of the screw bolts with metal screws through the tabs bend up the sides of the metal frame and screw in the members of the truss. Put a collar on one side of the half pipe and a collar half on the opposite side. Caulk the space between the flashing and the pipe with the seal at high temperature.
Tip - when working withthe metal layer thin gloves to avoid cutting through the metal.
4 Now take the flashing metal shears tin, forming a cylinder around the exhaust pipes and chimneys, masonry and all that brings hot combustion gases. There should be a two-inch airspace between the hot smoke and the new insulation sheet metal barrier. Use sheet metal screws to hold it in place. These cylinders look like high-neck sweater turtleneck metal.
5 If you are depressedLight or lights in a box (the same), do this in your attic. Old lamps in a box that you can not cover with insulating ICs can be evaluated. IC stands for insulated ceiling. The rating CI is clearly visible label on the back of the lamp. Do not confuse a rating of UL (Underwriters Laboratory) rating with the IC. Are not the same. UL approval means that the light box has a switch installed to cut off the lights when it gets too hot. An ICRating means that it is safe, the light box with protective cover. The airspace between the integrated circuit for optical and thermal insulation is not necessary.
Tip - Now would be a good time to update the rated recessed cans and sealed IC.
If the light IC rated cans, sealing where the light comes through the ceiling to seal in order - your ready to install insulation on the light.
If the can is not IC rated light, sealing where the light comes through the ceiling and allHoles in the body of light with the high temperature seal. The shape of a cylinder with metal flashing, and place around the body of light, like a chimney would leave a two inch air space. Keep it with sheet metal screws. This should be like a gardener, an open end that is his bucket of young tomato plants, allowing them to shelter from the cold. The plant is light and the blade, the sheet metal.
6 Locate all the fans, may have zero, one or more. Fansshould be notched or round with a flexable duct exhaust fan running to the point where the air is out and not into the attic. Seal the purpose or use spray foam to seal the body of a ceiling fan. Use caulk to seal holes in the body of the fan. Make sure that the channel is that of a vigil or intake air intake on the roof exhausting. Use metal flashing, and spray the foam around the exhaust pipe until the day before or with the seal of the roof drain. Support the pipe with plastic ties, or ensure that channelnot to fall over time. An exhaust fan is a flap valve so the body just before the exhaust fan connected to the channel. Given the opportunity to inspect the flapper valve and make sure, lint, dust, hair, moisture and gunk not leaving the valve is stuck open or stuck closed. The flap valve is a return flow to keep cool or warm air back into the house along the canal.
Tip-Now would be a good time to replace the old fans are strong. I recommend a fanNominal 100 CFM (cubic feet per minute) or more on the quiet side.
7 Now take the can and spray foam are foam every hole, in which television lines, electrical wire, telephone wire or enters or leaves the attic. Do the same for the hydraulic hoses. Should vent lines running from the attic and the roof. Foam, where the tube passes through the attic. Do not foam, where the tube goes through the roof.
8 Some homes may be newer and older homes, havedesign open spaces that run from the attic to the ground below. There are rooms that lead from the space needed at the end of the bathtub or closets. They formed, perhaps the result of the irregular nature, such as a triangle, where it meets a closet hallway, a bedroom door strikes. These open-chases should be sealed and not only with the isolation. Take a piece of cardboard, cut to fit over the opening, there was a drop of caulk around the end of the lip opening was on the edgeat the top of the seals and tighten the screws of the plate. Now you can easily isolate the box.
Ready to isolate
Tools and materials needed.
1 tape measure to calculate the square footage of the roof and for marking boxes with the depth of insulation you want to add.
2 insulation - fiberglass is a glass product is cellulose, a paper product. One of them is good.
Tip - fiberglass is itchy, cellulose is not so much.
3 IsolationBlowers - big and hardware stores for the home will use a fan if you can buy the insulation from them. Do not forget to book in advance and call the machine. The fan is about 2 miles of pipe.
4 knife - for cutting open packages of insulation.
5 tent attic access is a rare item for the new insulation attic access opening after the rest of the attic are insulated.
6 1 / 4 inch self-adhesive foam weatherstripping. Small rolesabout 12 meters in length.
7 Closing the gate - two small hooks to hold the access cover down.
8 A friend - a coin, a person for the insulation in the attic and spray a person, the car in the garage or courtyard, power etc.
Take the tape and measure the length and width of the attic. This can usually run out of the house standing on the lawn instead of in the attic run on narrow beams. Enter the numbers in a computer witha multiplication sign between them and calculate how many square feet in your attic.
Take a trip to your favorite hardware store and head for the isolation ward. The bags of loose fill insulation or blown insulation is compressed package in place. Take a package to read and how much insulation is in the package of a certain thickness or depth. The graphics on the package, you can calculate how many packages of insulation is necessary, if the attic so manySquare feet, and you want to add more R-value. For example, a package is 100 square feet of R-16, 56 square feet of R-30, and 32 m of R-49 cover.
Tip - buy a package or two more, once you start blowing insulation does not want to stop to pick up another bundle.
Download the fan and the insulation on the back of the pick-up and return home for a great saving of energy per day.
Set the fan in a comfortable position. You need to plug the machine into a electricityTaken to feed it with bundles of insulation, and run the hose from the machine in the attic. Tack, a couple of cardboard displays depth, streaks you have done, in order to have a depth destination target. Start the back corner and work your way up the attic access opening. Insulation spray from the hose in a sweeping motion that the insulation in the basement makes this a subtle light snowfall. Fill out a section of the floor of the depth expected before the next section. BeEnsure that the insulation on the evening before you fly or slide into the cylinder to draw the boundaries.
Tip - If the attic has an electrical junction box or other solid object, it is difficult to find, once covered with 16 cm insulation, mark the location of points to a piece of cardboard and stitching, the sign above the object on a roof beam with an arrow your way.
Fill it all with a beautiful new loft insulation to a uniform thickness of cardboard given depthIndicators effectively attacked in the attic. If you are all in the attic, if not only the area around the attic access opening, pause for a moment, some cardboard, and install an insulating barrier around the opening is filled. Now you can add insulation to the proper depth for the opening.
Tip - Plan ahead so that the tube and the hopper is not full of fan isolation when you're done, and should take the tube from the machine.
Hey, you're almost done.
1Spread the attic access through the opening of the tent.
Bring 2 1 / 4 inch self-adhesive weatherstripping contact with the circumference of the lid that fits the case and open the access cover.
3 Install the door latch clips, one on each side of the lid so that when the bolt is attached, pulls down the lid and compress the weatherstripping so that the airtight lid.
4 download additional packages of insulation and the fan and back into the store.
There aremade a slight pinch of isolation under the access opening and around the area that housed the fan. Broom really well on grass or carpet in isolation. Take the vacuum cleaner and not until the sure do not need to stop sleeping on the couch.
You get the satisfaction of a lower electric bill, a feeling warmer, less drafty house, and a stove that does not work so hard. I hope this was a help, please come back soon and quickly, IDo not leave the light on for you ...
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