Abouthadit
New Member
Have had good answers from a alot here on questions/help I've needed.
So thought I would run this by everybody , I've been up in the attic now a few times since we bought this house last July.
It was built in 1980 1175sq ft and had "some" insulation blown in looks like a wool type ?
The rafters/joists appear to be 2x4 and I can see most of the joists through out the attic.
The house had a shake roof , now has a comp roof, but whoever did the removal let a alot of shakes fall through and it is a bit of a mess in the attic !
Not full size shakes but pieces.
Along with being very dusty/dirty.
So should I
1. Crawl around and clean up all the shake pieces that I can get at and blow more insulation on top of the existing .
2. Remove everything ; shake pieces, old insulation , then blow in new insulation.
3. Leave as is and blow in more over the top of what's there ?
The garage is roughly 20x20 (fully finished sheet rock) even tho attached has no insulation at all, the roof pitch between house/garage has little space, so no insulation was ever blown in there. I cut an access hole in the ceiling , climbed up in there and removed the shake pieces, filled up about 10 5gal buckets of it along with tar paper pieces, nails etc too. Went ahead and took a small shop vac up there and vacuumed the 1/4 layer of dust etc.
As always thanks for your advise !
So thought I would run this by everybody , I've been up in the attic now a few times since we bought this house last July.
It was built in 1980 1175sq ft and had "some" insulation blown in looks like a wool type ?
The rafters/joists appear to be 2x4 and I can see most of the joists through out the attic.
The house had a shake roof , now has a comp roof, but whoever did the removal let a alot of shakes fall through and it is a bit of a mess in the attic !
Not full size shakes but pieces.
Along with being very dusty/dirty.
So should I
1. Crawl around and clean up all the shake pieces that I can get at and blow more insulation on top of the existing .
2. Remove everything ; shake pieces, old insulation , then blow in new insulation.
3. Leave as is and blow in more over the top of what's there ?
The garage is roughly 20x20 (fully finished sheet rock) even tho attached has no insulation at all, the roof pitch between house/garage has little space, so no insulation was ever blown in there. I cut an access hole in the ceiling , climbed up in there and removed the shake pieces, filled up about 10 5gal buckets of it along with tar paper pieces, nails etc too. Went ahead and took a small shop vac up there and vacuumed the 1/4 layer of dust etc.
As always thanks for your advise !