I need advice help with knee wall to peak attic ventilation.
Do i need a knee wall in attic bedroom.
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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.
I am in the process of deciding whether to seal insulate the kneewall attics for storage year round temperature regulation.
Instead of a full attic a room is built in that space.
Physically a knee wall is an area of a home that would normally be a full attic space.
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.
You can see the image below for an example of a knee wall.
Some houses only see small improvements in air leakage when sealing these areas now a note on materials for insulating the actual knee wall.
Hi everyone first time here.
Common sense disclosure your results may vary.
I have a 1956 home that i am gradually upgrading various parts of.
A knee wall is an area you ve seen hundreds of times and may have no idea what it is till now.
If you only do one thing in your knee wall attics seal those holes.
Previous owners had a weird mixture of batts and poly which i aim to rectify with polyiso etc.
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.
There are as many ways to do it as there are people who do it.