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Look What's Escaping Through Your Attic Entry
Just about every home has an entry way into the attic. It can be a small scuttle often tucked away inside a closet or a pull down stair way in the hall. Some homes even have a full stairway into the attic (a personal favorite of mine). What these entries all have in common is a covering over the opening. Be it a door, a piece of wood or sheetrock, the openings are by some means closed off from the cold, unconditioned attic. But most often they are not insulated or sealed allowing heat to easily escape into the attic.
The infrared image at right is a typical un-insulated pull down attic stairway. The opening is roughly eight square feet of heat escaping area.
It is important to understand that heat is attracted to cold. The heat you pay so much for will seek out cold spots like this pull down stairway and leave your home through your attic. Contributing further is that heat rises and the opening is on the ceiling.
The second image is of an attic scuttle. This opening is about half the size of the pull down stairway, about four square feet. But none the less it ... more

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