[Greenbuilding] Best attic stairs

[Bill Christensen]

Hah!  It wouldn't be the first time I've considered stuffing him in the
attic ;-)

And leave it to you to come up with obscure (to non-medical personnel)
terms like borborygmi for something that every 14 year old and their
parents very familiar.

Unfortunately, the amount of work needed to create a dormer/gable end
access would be far beyond cost effective.

For that amount of money I could custom build a high quality, highly
insulating attic door.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:28 PM, RT <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 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 ?
>
> --
> === * ===
> Rob Tom T6015O
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
>
> < A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot C a >
>
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