2d extend insulation into joist space to reduce air flows.
Insulating finished attic knee walls.
Knee walls are half walls built into areas where a full sized wall will not fit such as finished attic crawlspaces.
1a attic access door.
Kneewalls short walls under sloped ceilings are common in story and a half homes and in bonus rooms above garages.
In this case the area behind the knee wall will be uncomfortably hot or cold.
We prefer cellulose but we use fiberglass sometimes too.
If only the living space will be insulated wrap the insulation around the room s walls and ceiling and then continue along the floor of the non living space.
There are two basic ways to insulate a finished attic.
How to insulate knee walls.
Although kneewalls can help turn attics into living space they often present insulation challenges most builders install fiberglass batts between the studs and some type of blown insulation between the floor joists.
The sloped roof creates a small space that can hardly be use.
We reduced the air leakage nearly 50 on this house in shaker heights without insulating the walls.
Blown insulation in the knee wall and top attics.