CRAPPY ATTICS are Standard in America! Here’s how to BUILD - DECENT or AWESOME
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Published 2023-05-12
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All Comments (21)
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I definitely would be interested in a video showing how to take crappy to good or great. Lots of people have an existing crappy attic.
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This could be an entire series. How to turn a crappy attic into a good and great attic in every climate zone from paper/concept to completion and the common pitfalls people run into during the process and how to avoid and/or overcome them
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This is a good book. Does provide a step by step introduction to how to build things youtube.com/post/UgkxhgbP-6hUnXu_QRaoHgLztgsI0YF3H… , also does offer some steps. Includes pictures to give you ideas for layouts and such. If you are looking for a guide, this is not exactly what you want. But if you are trying to familiarize yourself with the way that pole barn building and other out buildings, are made, then this will work just as you need it to. A few things in this book are a barn (of course), detached garage, storage building, and coops.
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Important tip, watch your duct work install, those guys often want to take the shortest path (makes sense) but will also eat up all your attic space putting duct work out in the middle of what could be very accessible storage. You can tell he either monitored the install, or had guys who knew what he wanted, given how the ducting is all secured to the ceiling rather then being strung all over itself on the decking. Very nicely done.
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I was having a house built, 11course walk-out basement, 9’ 1st floor ceilings, 2nd story with 3rd floor walk-up attic - I requested that the 3rd floor be constructed using a truss design that would offer the largest open spaces - my request was received by the custom home builder as if I insulted his honor and integrity… we ended up hiring an architect to design what we wanted and he recommended a custom builder that could/would do the job… Live and learn
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It probably was a ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) not a lemur (Lemuroidea family) in your attic. Ringtails are found all through out Texas, lemurs only in Madagascar. Still cool because (1) ringtails are awesome and (2) they are not really all that common.
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Dude has an OSHA compliant access to his own attic. A true professional.
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For your house, I'd love to see how you handled the exhaust issues for appliances like microwaves and ESPECIALLY dryers.
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It would be AWESOME if you did a budget remodel of a house, like you were originally planning to do with your house. A lot of us are wanting to see that whole process you teased us with.
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The concept of clipped rafters and extending the house wrap up and over the roof is pretty easy to understand. What I didn't quite catch was how you then built the deck on top of that to re-extend the eaves. Would love to see more detail about that aspect of the build. Great vid! Thanks!
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Attic access: In the future use a raised heal roof which you build 2 foot to 4 foot walls along the sides so the roof height is raised. This also makes it a lot easier to run duct work along the sides of the attic leaving more space in the center available for storage or just maintenance access.
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I kind of miss my mom and dads house. Yet it was built in 1920, but it was the first and only time I have ever experienced a full set of steps from my old bedroom that went up to the attic. It was frickin awesome. It’s a shame we never finished it.
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Matt I am curious if you or one of the Build Show contributors might have some suggestions on retrofitting an old unconditioned attic and making it an improved attic.
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"Thought and care ahead of time" = design. One of the things I love about your videos is their focus on sunbelt homes. I built an icf/sips house by Mueller about a decade ago and during my research realized that most energy efficiency info out there was about snow belt homes. Great shots of the SIP house you built. I would love to hear more about what you think of SIPs.
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Great video and info on this one Matt! For remodels, especially of historic homes where we can't change the roof profile and don't want to introduce spray foam to the roof deck, I have been toying with the idea of building a conditioned and insulated box around the HVAC equipment in a vented attic, and then doing a "flash and fill" on the attic side of the ceiling with closed cell to seal it and loose fill for the rest of the R value, with the ducts buried in the loose fill instead of hanging in the air.
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Thank you!! Appreciate all the walk throughs & detail work. This is where spending a little more can get you eons different after product. You don't always get that everywhere. This was a great video. Thanks brother!
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This is the exact type of videos I'm looking for. Feels like being in class. I'm taking notes and everything!
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Thanks Matt You've really motivated me to do better on my next house build. Really enjoying your content.
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I lived in a 2 family 1930's house in Boston which was build by National Lumber, the attic was beautiful. I can't imagine not having an attic and a basement, or all the wonderful wood work.
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I am not a builder but this vid is super insightful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and the detailed explanations from the concept, to materials to building it out. Cheers!
