Proper attic insulation is a game-changer for regulating home temperature and reducing energy bills. When soffit venting isn't part of the equation, insulation requires strategic adjustments to ...

Q When our home was built in 1989, the builder placed insulation in the garage ceiling, saying it would help if we ever planned to convert the attic to a bedroom. A few years ago we had the attic ...

Knowing how to insulate an attic while leaving adequate clearance can be tricky. That's because insulating it to the proper R-value can cause a dramatic loss of headroom if you limit yourself to ...

Q: We are moving to a new house with the loudest forced air furnace I've ever heard. They're common to our builder. What can I do to reduce the noise? Some is the fast air movement, some is the fans.

Attics already have that mysterious quality, where items that were at some point important to us (or the home’s previous owners) fill boxes that we forget about, and then eventually rediscover. And ...

Fiberglass insulation is not airtight. Heck, it will barely even slow air propelled by convection, differential pressure or wind. It is especially helpless against air moving through a leaky pipe ...

Rob Robillard is a general contractor, carpenter, and editor of AConcordCarpenter.com. Q. I’m hoping you can help me with a problem I’m having in my attic. My condo is only two years old, but there is ...

Q. I have a question about ice dams, which are affecting us and our neighbors in our recently constructed adjoined condominiums. We all have 2-zone HVAC with the second zone furnace in the attic crawl ...