How To Crawl Through Attic Knee Wall

Attach the rigid foam insulation to the attic side of the door.

How to crawl through attic knee wall.

Face the knee wall with the appropriate size of drywall. A knee wall is a short vertical wall roughly two or three feet high that blocks in that useless triangular space. Knee wall doors provide access through the knee walls to the unconditioned parts of the attic. This is not very easy in most of the older houses we work on because the hatches and attics are too small to get rigid foam board through.

One of the best methods is rigid foam board with sealed joints over insulation in the knee wall. But you do so at the expense of floor space. You can buy knee wall doors that have built in insulation and weather stripping. The higher the knee wall the greater the amount of useful wall space you create in your finished attic.

Nail down the sole plate the bottom of the wall in three or four places into the attic floor. Although kneewalls can help turn attics into living space they often present insulation challenges most builders install fiberglass batts between the studs and some type of blown insulation between the floor joists. Attic work in september 2016 how to how not to do things diy secrets life hack. This entry was posted in safety and tagged falling through an attic how do i walk through an attic how to inspect an attic how to safely crawl in an attic pest control training.

Kneewalls short walls under sloped ceilings are common in story and a half homes and in bonus rooms above garages. If the door doesn t have these weather strip it to provide a tight seal and make sure the latch pulls tightly against the frame. We left a removable panel to enter the crawl area. How to walk in attic properly how not to fall through ceiling from attic.

An alternative crawl space entry could have been made from outside with a bit of digging and cutting an opening through the foundation wall. If an outside entry had been made through the foundation we d have made sure that the entry itself didn t become a water entry pathway by protecting it.