[Greenbuilding] Best attic stairs

[RT]

Wild Blll-bob Christensen wrote:
-(with a 14 year old boy in our house, we get more than enough
of that ( borborygmi) as it is)

- partially hip roof with ~2' high gable ends means moving the access
outdoors is not practical in this case.
Huh.

I had no clue (ie clueless) that my namesake (sort of)  was 14 already.   
Wow.

Gobsmacknedness aside,  moving the attic access to the outside is still  
the best option, from a thermal and air-seal continuity perspective ... or  
more accurately, from a MooseHugger perspective.

Perhaps it might be an interesting Honourable Father/Young Offspring  
project to hack-open a big hole in the hip roof and build a dormer to  
accommodate an opening that would function as an attic access . Perhaps it  
could also be designed to include equator-facing glass, perhaps just to  
provide daylighting to an otherwise dark space for those occasions when  
you are crawling around up there.

Or perhaps more ambitiously, to accomodate a batch heater for DHW.  And  
perhaps Number One Son might get ambititous and think ... "Hey! I could  
make a great Teen Cave up here."

What 14 yr-old boy wouldn't love hacking a big hole into their parents'  
roof  with their parents' full blessing ?

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Rob Tom T6015O
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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