for a second floor room that has knee-walls, then sloped ceiling up to the flat ceiling?
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One and a half story.
At least in the midwest that's what it's called
Thanks...now I can head on over to the Heating forum & ask how I can best upgrade the existing insulation in mine!!!
Cells.
Saved u a trip.
Joe H
Cells?
Is that the same as Celulose?SamT
Storey and a half.
be a likely story
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Edited 11/3/2006 11:15 pm ET by rez
He said technical term.
Round here, we call that a "Love Shack".
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A finished attic.
In French, we call that a mansarde (even though it can be built into a gambrel or gable roofed structure). It is technically a 1½-storey structure and not a two-storey. I've got that set-up in my own house.
You have two options for insulating that: One is to treat the space behind the kneewall as part of the heated envelope (for dead but not cold storage); the other is to insulate the kneewall itself or even stuff the entire cavity with insulation (allowing roof venting, of course).
I find the space behind the kneewall valuable for seasonal storage, so I left it inside the heat envelope and boosted the roof-deck insulation by using Reflectix as the VB.
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I enjoyed everyones good/fun answers, but I like yours the best......
The storage behind the knee-walls is outside the heated envelope (FG/Poly), and the upper ceiling is insulated with FG between the ceiling joists.
I've gone through with the foam gun & sealed all the penetrations, and added a second layer of FG across the first layer over a bath that's under a gable....now I'm getting ready to add more FG perpendicular to the first layer in the ceiling, and can't quite decide whether to stuff tight to the roof deck where the ceiling joists meet the rafters, or leave some breathing room there.
I know the right answer is to leave airway (there is FG with airway there now, probably a whopping R-12), but there are no soffit vents-though someone used dryer vents in the gable ends of the behind the knee-wall space to try and meet spec. & provide flow for the ridge vents.
The house gets super-sized ice dams..Tnk G'd for good Ice & water underlayment. Two of the three upstairs rooms are cathedral ceiling'd...boy do I wish they had foamed when they were built, since short of either building a cold roof on top of the existing, or pretty much gutting the upstairs & foaming, I'll be using the snow rake as long as I own the joint ;-(
Where are the ice dams? At those knee wall areas?
Joe H
It's more like where aren't those ice dams...and the answer is, on the (unheated) porch roofI can't even get into the space behind the knee-walls on the back side of the house...in the master bedroom it's part of a headboard/ledge (under two Velux skylights-makes for a chill in bed on your head); in the second bedroom there's a built-in desk niche under another Velux....
Between the two is the bath, under a gable.There really isn't any good way to bring the top-side building envelope up to decent R-values short of spending lots more money than I'd likely save or get out....
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Well, I would think the sloped ceiling would be the thigh wall, eh?
Thigh wall...I like it!
Next section would have to be a hip, though, and that's where terms could get tricky.
Hey, there's a whole bunch of terms you can use for that area.
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