Insulating The Underside Of Your Roof

In this way you prevent the heat from the rooms below escaping to the attic rooms above.

Insulating the underside of your roof. An advantage of spray foam is it s quick whereas foam board needs to be cut and measured which can be a chore. If you re insulating the roof directly to insulate the roof itself you either use spray foam or retrofit with it with rigid foam board. Use these questions to decide which. In the winter your warm indoor air rises and will leave through the attic if it s not properly insulated.

If so fix that first. Don t use spray foam to fix a roof leak. An unvented attic differs from a conventional vented attic in that there is no direct venting of the attic. Then you could simply insulate the pitched roof.

You can then install. When hvac equipment is in the attic insulation and. These circumstances cause your heater and air conditioner to work overtime and your utility bills will spike. Insulating the underside of roofs making the case for the unvented attic assembly background.

Do you already have a roof leak. But the best solution is actually to insulate both the attic floor and the underside of the roof. In addition to installing the foam board on the underside of the roof deck you can attach it to the bottom edges of the rafters in the same manner you would hang drywall. Advantages of unvented attic assemblies.

At the same time the areas below the roof benefit from increased comfort both during the winter and the summer.