A knee wall is a short vertical wall roughly two or three feet high that blocks in that useless triangular space.
Building a knee wall in attic.
Framing basics for attic knee walls along the sides of your loft or attic space.
The higher the knee wall the greater the amount of useful wall space you create in your finished attic.
Use a template to determine the angle on each of those six pieces of 2x4.
How to construct knee walls in attics 1.
One of your 2x4s.
Install a continuous air barrier on the exterior side of the attic knee wall framing with a rigid air.
Instructions the knee wall will be built on the floor of the attic and then tipped into place against the rafters.
Cut six lengths of 2x4 each 2 1 2 feet long.
Determine the location and line of.
Snap a chalk line.
Install insulation without misalignments compressions gaps or voids in all knee wall cavities.
Determine the length of the knee wall from end to end and double this to determine the lineal footage of the.
Scope install a top and bottom plate or blocking at the top and bottom of all knee wall cavities.
But you do so at the expense of floor space.
Draw a line across that angle.