Attic work....Mine!

Today's work

Opening for new attic ladder

oops........came with the low temps

Adding 2 hall lights, 2 ceiling fan boxes, insulating attic and installing vent chutes. Replacing rusted Furnace pipe. Adding 2x6's over joists. Insulating about 11" there and then decking over for storage. 12" insulation elsewhere.

This was brought on by the ceiling stains when the temps dipped recently. I did this roof around 2000. Bought the house in 2010. I did not address the attic then. Jack was the kinda guy who did not worry about such things.

I knew I'd have to get in that attic someday. Today was the day and it is not so good of shape. No rot, no mold. Lots of heat loss. Fixable, but glad I did not wait any longer

It'll be in good shape by the end of the day tommorrow

:) :) :) :) ;)

As I saw the Christmas decorations coming down, I knew this was the time to strike. Becky was starting to lay claim to the "old" pole barn. Which is fine. But where I come from you don't use valuable pole barn space for inside storage stuff. Under the stairs, or.......

In the Attic ! :laugh: I added about 150 sq ft of platform up there. The Xmas decorations did not take up 1/5 of it...... :dry:

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It got down to 6 degrees here last week and that was a record low for the area on the date it happened.

Was called out today to repair a leak around a heater vent pipe that 2 others had failed to fix. ( metal double wall pipe)

It had corrosion where they joined two pipes together about 4 feet AWAY from the elbow just below where the stack went through the roof.

I pushed back the blown insulation and the wet spot on the sheet rock ceiling was right under that joint but not below the roof penetration.

The pipe was angled from the elbow leading up to the roof to the elbow going down into the house and I knew right away it was condensation and not a roof leak.