A knee wall is a short vertical wall roughly two or three feet high that blocks in that useless triangular space.
Do i need a knee wall in attic bedroom.
Hi everyone first time here.
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.
Instead of a full attic a room is built in that space.
You can see the image below for an example of a knee wall.
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Previous owners had a weird mixture of batts and poly which i aim to rectify with polyiso etc.
Mar 10 2017 looking for closet storage in an attic bedroom.
Common sense disclosure your results may vary.
I am in the process of deciding whether to seal insulate the kneewall attics for storage year round temperature regulation.
I have a 1956 home that i am gradually upgrading various parts of.
Some houses only see small improvements in air leakage when sealing these areas now a note on materials for insulating the actual knee wall.
A knee wall is also an area that do it yourselfers normally fix wrongly.
If you only do one thing in your knee wall attics seal those holes.
There are as many ways to do it as there are people who do it.
I need advice help with knee wall to peak attic ventilation.
But you do so at the expense of floor space.