A knee wall is an area you ve seen hundreds of times and may have no idea what it is till now.
Do i need a knee wall in attic bedroom.
I have a 1956 home that i am gradually upgrading various parts of.
There are as many ways to do it as there are people who do it.
Hi everyone first time here.
Instead of a full attic a room is built in that space.
A knee wall is a short vertical wall roughly two or three feet high that blocks in that useless triangular space.
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Physically a knee wall is an area of a home that would normally be a full attic space.
Some houses only see small improvements in air leakage when sealing these areas now a note on materials for insulating the actual knee wall.
But you do so at the expense of floor space.
Previous owners had a weird mixture of batts and poly which i aim to rectify with polyiso etc.
If you only do one thing in your knee wall attics seal those holes.
I am in the process of deciding whether to seal insulate the kneewall attics for storage year round temperature regulation.
Mar 10 2017 looking for closet storage in an attic bedroom.
Common sense disclosure your results may vary.
The higher the knee wall the greater the amount of useful wall space you create in your finished attic.
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.
A knee wall is also an area that do it yourselfers normally fix wrongly.