With square foot living space at a premium many homeowners turn to their attics for a little extra room.
My house has very little attic space.
Here are the reasons why you can t or shouldn t convert your attic to living space.
If you don t have enough ventilation pressure can build up which will harm circulation rates and air could be pushed back into your living space.
Install electric ventilators and attic fans which remove hot air from an attic.
You may walk along a plywood pathway and feel a little bounce in the floor and think hey maybe that s ok.
After all whole house fans push air from your house into the attic and while most attics are already ventilated they often don t have the right amount of ventilation.
There are of course exceptions to this but they are very rare.
When a house has a sloped roof and horizontal ceilings there is going to be some dead space between the ceiling and the roof otherwise known as the attic.
Alternatively install passive vents such as gable soffit and ridge vents which are openings in the roof that allow hot air to escape.
In warm dry climates homes often have flat roofs with no attic.
This is due to the fact that most mobile homes have very little space between the ceiling and roofing so the manufacturers figure why bother with it however there is enough room up there for a little storage or attic access for repair.
They have thermostats that turn the fan on at a recommended preset temperature of 100 110 degrees.