Q. My 30-year-plus home has two rooms with mineral insulation, but my biggest concern is my third-floor loft. The temperature is always more extreme than the rest of the house. There is an attic space ...

Q: We sold our home, and the buyers asked for an inspection. One of the things the home inspector listed for repair was the attic insulation. The inspector said that because we had installed flooring ...

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 ...

Folding stairs are a great convenience in opening up an attic for storage, but they can also be a significant cause of heat loss. This is also true of uninsulated trapdoors that lead into attics and ...

Most of us rarely go up there and we don’t think about it much. More than likely you only think of it as extra space to put our old junk. But if you could find another place to put those future garage ...

A partial solution to these issues is to keep the interior air circulating. Have the thermostat in the “On” position during ...

Q: The insulation in our 50-year-old attic is compacted and the paper facing is crumbling. Can we put new insulation on top of the old? Are blankets or blown-in insulation best? A: It is OK to put new ...

Dear Jim: I use the attic floor for storage. When I recently went up there, I noticed there is no insulation or weatherstripping on the cover to the attic. Will I save enough energy to make it ...

Yet Another (armwt) home/house thread:<BR><BR>Putting up a new drywall ceiling on our "sunroom". The room was originally a screened-in porch when the house was constructed, off the back bedroom at the ...