How To Insulate Your Attic Ceiling

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.

How to insulate your attic ceiling.

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. Plan to pull up the flooring and layer new insulation on top of the old. In this case the area behind the knee wall will be uncomfortably hot or cold.

Get a free consultation. See below for a shopping list and tools. For the center areas hold the hose level and blow in insulation evenly until you ve reached your level lines photo 6. Blow in insulation until the hopper is empty.

Then pivot in place and do the same thing to the other side. This old house general contractor tom silva and host kevin o connor demonstrate the proper way to insulate an attic. Insulating a finished attic there are two basic ways to insulate a finished attic. 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.