Marvelous Insulating Attic Above Unheated Garage

Board will be installed on the interior walls also.

Insulating attic above unheated garage. If your homes HVAC system does extend into the garage then the attic above it should be insulated as it would for any other room of the house. But if the floor is covered in plywood you cant stuff enough insulation beneath it to do the job sufficientlynot even in warm climates. As long as the ceiling above the living area is insulated that is fine.

There are quite a number of benefits to insulating a garage. It does not keep the heat or the cold out it just slows it down. If it isnt you dont want to insulate.

Garage insulation is easy to install yourself. If you insulate the garage but not the garage door youre only doing half the job. Insulating the attic above the garage will help keep temperatures in the garage a bit more stable but it wont have any appreciable effect on energy bills.

Also can I leave insulation exposed in garage. The garage is outside of the houses thermal boundry. They cleaned out entire attic and re did the insulation.

Doing so can cause mildew. Place insulation batts in the spaces between the garage rafters. Because the simplest and cheapest way to insulate an attic is to add material to the floor.

The crew was there for two days back to back. The garage attic is where a lot of the heat in during warmer months of the year. Staple the paper flanges of the batts to the inside face of the rafters with your staple gun to hold the insulation in place.