Attic Space Over Garage

Create an access opening or install a pull down stair unit if you don t have one.

Attic space over garage.

If you re using your garage enough to warrant installing a heater and or air conditioner by all means you should insulate the ceiling between the garage and an unfinished attic space above. Make sure the structure is up to snuff before the house was expanded to include a garage addition. Building codes typically require that a finished space have a ceiling height of 7 feet 6 inches over at least half of the available floor space. You can see the garage window below.

Break the drywall or plastic ceiling with a hammer to gain a view of what the space looks like. Step 3 create a storage space. Let s start the tour of the finished space. An engineer will need to verify that the garage s existing framing and foundation can bear the weight of an addition.

For visual symmetry she centered double windows over the garage door and a gable end window over the window below. The insulation will keep the naturally hot or cold air in the garage and the artificially warmed or cooled air in the room above it. A garage attic also should be insulated is if there is an air conditioned room above the garage. Take the floorboards and place them over the floor joists in the attic.

The garage is 82 years old. Insulating the area in the attic over a garage might keep the temperature a little more stable in the garage but it does little to reduce the amount of energy needed to heat and cool your house so it s not a good investment of your energy dollars. When you have finished installing the attic ladder and hatch you will be easily able to walk up and down the ladder to complete the storage space creation. This is where dreams of adding new living space in an attic are often abandoned.

Don t cut any rafters for an opening yet. So if the distance from the roof ridge to the floor joists isn t at least 9 feet you probably won t be able to meet. The opening for the floor window. Tap into the attic space over the garage using a tall a shaped ladder.

The reveal of the garage attic makeover. Then one day while working in the garage it dawned on me that there was a huge unused space right above me. The attic space is 17 feet by 21 feet. The highest point it 5 foot 8 inches so my youngest 2 and i can stand but the others in our family can t.

The new insulation rests about 12 above the ceiling joists so there wasn t a good way to lay down flooring for storage without sacrificing the efficiency gain from the new insulation.