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 ...

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 ...

Attics already have that mysterious quality, where items that were at some point important to us (or the home’s previous owners) fill boxes that we forget about, and then eventually rediscover. And ...

Q. I have a serious problem with ice damming in my house and have been looking for solutions. It all seems to boil down to not letting the roof heat up from indoor heat sources. It seems that spraying ...

Knowing how to insulate an attic while leaving adequate clearance can be tricky. That’s because insulating it to the proper R-value can cause a dramatic loss of headroom if you limit yourself to ...

Who inspects the attic insulation in new construction homes? Probably just the person that put it in. Nobody else. When new houses are built in Minnesota, the municipal inspection departments ...

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Dear Jerry: I have come to sense that I lose a lot of heat in my 80-year-old house. So, I ask, where or how should one look for where the heat is lost, e.g. poor insulation in the outside walls of the ...