How To Insulate Your Attic Ceiling

While wearing dust mask and gloves carry r 38 batts of unfaced fiberglass insulation into the attic.

How to insulate your attic ceiling. In this case the area behind the knee wall will be uncomfortably hot or cold. Insulating your attic and or ceilings can save you more on your energy bill than most other insulation upgrades so that attic and ceiling insulation should be one of the first areas of concern when re insulating your home. 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.

See below for a shopping list and tools. This old house general contractor tom silva and host kevin o connor demonstrate the proper way to insulate an attic. Lay the batts across the ceiling joists covering the existing insulation. Move across the attic until you ve hit your desired height at every point.

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. Because the simplest and cheapest way to insulate an attic is to add material to the floor. Then pivot in place and do the same thing to the other side. For the center areas hold the hose level and blow in insulation evenly until you ve reached your level lines photo 6.