Adding Batt Insulation to an Attic

hi I'm Gail Tatum's I'm with Owens Corning and we're just about ready to start insulating this attic using batt insulation now we're going to start at the far corner so and work ourselves in so that we can have access to the attic stairway we don't insulate ourselves into a corner so we'll be cutting bats as we go along either to make them in pieces that we can handle or to fit into places so what you'll do is you'll measure the piece and then use a straight edge where you can compress the bat and then cut it in a couple of strokes with the utility knife so that you have a nice clean cut in case the cavity isn't completely full fill the cavity with insulation up to the top of the joist that way then you can put the next level of bats perpendicular to the joist and that will insulate the joist itself another thing that we have to keep in mind is not to cover up the soffit vents that are along the eve of the roofline raft events like this one are used to maintain that ventilation space from the soffit vent all the way up to the hip or the ridge vent of the the roof this one's made of extruded polystyrene foam and it will not rot or deteriorate so will maintain its performance through the life of the home and it comes in a size so that you can use it in - between 16 or 24 inch rafter spacing so what we do is we'll cut notches into that first row of bats and fit them around the rafter so that it fits snug so that's how you install bad insulation in an attic next we're going to insulate an attic using loose fill insulation to watch the other segments in this video series or for how-to videos on almost any other topic visit monkey-see com

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Keywords: attic, insulate, batt, doe, department, energy, inches, 19, 22, insulation, loose, fill, measure, vent, lighting, tools, stairway, owens, corning, House, home, comfort, save

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Length: 1min 54sec (114 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 30 2009