<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">Here's a great article on insulating attic hatches!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace"><div><a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/guest-blogs/how-insulate-and-air-seal-pull-down-attic-stairs">http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/guest-blogs/how-insulate-and-air-seal-pull-down-attic-stairs</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Aaron.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">Aaron Stavert, MRAIC</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">Open Practice Inc. - Collaborative Architecture</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">63 Pownal St. Charlottetown, PE</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">C1A 3W2</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">902 370-2086 p</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">902 370-2087 f</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">aaron@openpractice.ca</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">openpractice.ca</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; "><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">On 16-02-23 11:18 AM, "Greenbuilding on behalf of RT" <<a href="mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org">greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca">ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; border-left-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; "><div>On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:08:58 -0500, Bill Christensen </div><div><<a href="mailto:billc_lists@greenbuilder.com">billc_lists@greenbuilder.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><br></div><div> I'm looking for a really good insulated, sealed attic stair</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>S'Up, Wild Bill-Bob.</div><div><br></div><div>Many moons ago (like in the 70's of the previous millennium) I made a few </div><div>super-insulated, sealed attic stairs using store-bought lumber and </div><div>hardware from the local small-town (Paris Ontario)building supply (ie </div><div>before Big Box outlets like Home Despot existed) ... plywood skinned box </div><div>filled with XPS foam w/ HD piano hinge... ladders made with 2x4s, rungs </div><div>glued/screwed into dadoes cut into the rails , ladder sections connected </div><div>with HD strap hinges, shutting against compression bulb air seals and the </div><div>whole schmozzle counterbalanced with a steel pail filled with steel chain </div><div>suspended by a steel cable (vinyl-covered clothesline) & pulleys.</div><div><br></div><div>Thinking a bit about it this morning, in these days when people seem to </div><div>have more money than time to f@art around making stuff themselves, I </div><div>wondered if the (heavy) 2x4 folding stairs might be easily replaced by a </div><div>store-bought extension ladder, chopped up into pieces and reconfigured to </div><div>suit the situation ?</div><div><br></div><div>But the best solution would be to get rid of the interior access to the </div><div>attic and move it outdoors to a gable end (or such like) and use the </div><div>homeowner's general purpose ladder propped up against the wall on those </div><div>occasions when access to the attic is needed (assuming that it's not a </div><div>habitable space, of course.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>=== * ===</div><div>Rob Tom . . . T60BOM</div><div>Kanata, Ontario, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot C A</div><div>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")</div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Greenbuilding mailing list</div><div>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address</div><div><a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page</div><div><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>