How To Make An Attic Entrance Box

Take the drywall out.

How to make an attic entrance box.

Then run it through the pulley attached to the attic beam. Run the rope through the pulley that was not attached to the eye hook. Make sure to check your local building code for attic access size minimums to ensure that your finished opening will still meet these requirements. Lay boards across the attic framing to hold small boxes for storage.

The rope will now start at the eye hook it is tied to run down to the free pulley on the floor below back up to the pulley on the attic beam and then back down to the floor below. Use a pencil and draw a box within the joists. Cut the r 19 insulation to the dimensions. Having searched online for a simple design in the past i knew that there was literally not a single good article or resource on constructing a truly airtight attic hatch.

You can construct these out of cardboard and staple the cardboard to the joists and to the 2 by 6 inch boards you installed. Decorate and finish the entrance as desired. Most attic ladders are made to fit between joists set at 24 inches on center. Attach the two layers of foam board together and apply them to the hatch.

Use a straight edge knife to cut any drywall paper that wasn t taken care of with the drywall knife. The attic access door is often the name used to describe push up type access panels knee wall doors or any type of entry point into the attic space. Install fiberglass batt insulation on top of the foam board. Consider adding insulation dams to retain loose fiberglass insulation at the sides of the opening unless you are adding a partial floor landing inside the attic.

Position the newly constructed box over the attic stair opening. If you re lucky and this is the case squaring of the opening is simply a matter of nailing a couple of blocks between. If the attic is large enough lay a plywood floor and run lighting. The edges of the box should be flush with the.

Using drywall knife start cutting the ceiling out along your line.