The wall and ceiling between an attached garage and the house living area is required to be minimum 1 2 drywall.
Why attic panel garage.
Does a garage attic need to be insulated.
Saturday june 30 2018.
When we started renovating the kitchen we had asbestos removal and drywall installed.
Most garages have a ceiling secured to the bottom chord of the roof trusses or rafters and that has to be 1 2 drywall also when the attic is continuous over the garage.
We had the contractors just drywall over the original attic access panel.
If your attic joists won t bear the weight necessary to finish out a living space but the engineer cleared them to support floor decking for light storage you can install inch plywood or.
Some very old homes have attic access only through a removable vent panel at a gable end wall of the roof.
A ceiling attic access door provides easy access for maintenance repairs or other purposes.
The primary reason to insulate any part of the home is to provide a thermal barrier between conditioned heated or cooled interior space and the.
We have these specialty doors at access doors and panels designed to be installed easily.
The access may a small door the wall of an upper story room or high in the wall between the garage and house.
Not sure why we did this probably because we knew that creating the small attic access door was easy.