Some houses only see small improvements in air leakage when sealing these areas now a note on materials for insulating the actual knee wall.
Do i need a knee wall in attic bedroom.
I need advice help with knee wall to peak attic ventilation.
In most instances they are no taller than 3 feet but some builders may custom fit them according to the roof s shape and size.
Hi everyone first time here.
Instead of a full attic a room is built in that space.
Mar 10 2017 looking for closet storage in an attic bedroom.
I am in the process of deciding whether to seal insulate the kneewall attics for storage year round temperature regulation.
A knee wall is an area you ve seen hundreds of times and may have no idea what it is till now.
Previous owners had a weird mixture of batts and poly which i aim to rectify with polyiso etc.
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Physically a knee wall is an area of a home that would normally be a full attic space.
A knee wall is also an area that do it yourselfers normally fix wrongly.
I have a 1956 home that i am gradually upgrading various parts of.
Knee walls are short usually wooden walls installed around the sides of an attic where the rafters meet the floor.
The higher the knee wall the greater the amount of useful wall space you create in your finished attic.
But you do so at the expense of floor space.
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A knee wall is a short vertical wall roughly two or three feet high that blocks in that useless triangular space.