Be sure to use water-resistant wood glue, and keep your board out of the dishwasher or it might fall apart. And one more thing: Keep the wood serving boards as even as possible during glue-up to ...

Unlike blanket and foam board insulation, however, loose-fill is usually installed on the floor of the attic to stop heat from escaping from the rest of the home below, rather than in the roof joists.

Proper attic insulation is a game-changer for regulating home temperature and reducing energy bills. When soffit venting isn't part of the equation, insulation requires strategic adjustments to ...

Insulating an attic is a pretty straightforward project Updated: Dec. 17, 2009, 7:38 p.m. | Published: Dec. 17, 2009, 6:38 p.m.

Q. I need help with my attic. I live in a 75-year-old Georgian colonial brick house. There are, therefore, no overhang vents possible. Access to the attic is by one of those fold-down stairways in ...

Ideally, the attic should be insulated by spraying expanding foam on the underside of the roof’s decking, leaving no need for attic-floor insulation and making it possible to store whatever you ...

Wet insulation in your attic or loft is a sneaky problem that can cause more damage than you might think. Beyond the potential for mold and mildew, soggy insulation loses its fluff factor that ...

Ross insulates an attic; Richard talks irrigation repairs; Mark paves a parking spot. Ross Trethewey helps a homeowner dealing with ice dams decide whether to insulate from his attic roof rafters ...

Do not cover vents in the roof eave with insulation and keep insulation at least three inches away from recessed lights (lights stamped I.C. for Insulated Ceiling are excepted).

If your attic insulation is good, the snow will stay on for a long while (and actually will add insulation to the roof, since snow is an insulator). The best snowstorm for these observations will ...

Right now we have the opening to the stairs blocked with an insulated door. The attic roof is not insulated, but the floor is. My family has lived in the house for more than 30 years.

A: You are correct and your girlfriend is wrong. Insulating between rafters will do no good, because the attic should be ventilated, and the rafter insulation would be between two unheated spaces.