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If you are tired of crawling through the small space in your closet to access your attic, you should consider installing an attic ladder. An attic ladder can be installed in your garage or breezeway and will give you better access to your attic than a small crawl space. Most attic ladders come completely assembled, so installing an attic ladder is easy and only takes a few hours. It is much safer to use an attic ladder too, as it offers more stability than a traditional ladder or step stool.
Have you access to the floor above it? if you do, try to life some floorboards and see what you can find. If the ceiling is the bottom of the attic, find a way in and check out the pipes. If you can't access floor above, ask whoever lives there to have a look for you.
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because it's uninsulated
The Home Depot has a comprehensive guide on how to install insulation in an attic. Additionally, Energy Star offers a similar guide for installing insulation in an attic.
As long as you have adequate ventilation elsewhere in the attic
There are no balloons. To reach the attic through the hole in the ceiling, click on the spider by the door. He will scare the witch and you can ride her broom into the attic.
You can supply the voltage to the swag from a wall box but the whole purpose of a swag fixture is to have it hang from the ceiling.You are going to have to find a way to support the fixture. If you can not get support from behind the ceiling then the support is going to have to be on the exposed surface side that you can see. You will probably have to span two ceiling joists and hang the fixture some where in between them to suit your purposes.
You can make an attic bedroom feel brighter by painting the walls and ceiling a light color, avoid dark colors for furniture, and by using textures.
It is really easy to install a solar attic fan. You will get plenty of information on installing solar attic fan on internet. When I bought my solar attic fan, I wanted to install it by myself. I confess, I am not a handy man kind of guy. It took me more than 1 hour to install one on my roof. While I was on the internet searching installation guide, I came upon this website, they have step by step installation guide. I recommend that you follow the manufacturer guideline with this step by step guide and your attic fan will be installed before you know it.
Shortly after the invention of a pitched or slope roof and the creation of a cavity by installing ceiling joists rather than cathedral ceilings, the cavity called an attic was found useful for storage. Thus people didn't throw away as much when their closest became full.
plumbing ran overhead either in attic on roof or exposed on ceiling. just like it sounds