Attic Solutions
Attic Tent
The Attic Tent seals your attic access door, one of the largest sources of uncontrolled air leakage between your living space and your attic.
Why the Attic Access Door Matters
The U.S. Department of Energy states that a gap as small as one-quarter inch around your pull-down attic stairs can leak as much air as a standard bedroom air duct supplies. Air sealing and insulating this leak point is essential to improving your home's energy efficiency. The Attic Tent is the solution: it seals and insulates this vulnerable point in your home's defense against energy loss.
The Attic Tent is made of space-age materials bonded to micro-fiber urethane insulation, so it's light, thin, and effective. It uses heavy-duty zippers that resist corrosion, ensuring easy access to your attic for years to come.
This product keeps your heated and cooled air in your living space where you want it. The Attic Tent also helps keep your house cleaner and improves indoor air quality by keeping attic dust in the attic.
Why the Hatch Leaks So Much
A pull-down attic stair is a hole cut in the insulated ceiling of your house, covered by a thin plywood panel with a gap around all four sides. Nothing else in the ceiling is built that way. The insulation stops at the opening, the panel itself has effectively no R-value, and the gap around the perimeter is a continuous opening between conditioned space and an attic that runs well over 100°F in a Carolina summer.
Warm air rises, so in winter that opening is a chimney taking heated air out of the house; in summer the flow reverses and hot attic air pours down into the hallway below. It is also why the ceiling around an attic hatch is often the spot people notice feels drafty without ever working out why.
How It Fits With the Rest of the Attic
Sealing the hatch is one part of air sealing an attic, and it is the part with the best return for the least work — it is a single, well-defined leak in an otherwise sealed surface. It pairs naturally with attic insulation, because insulating a floor while leaving the largest hole in it open is doing most of the work and skipping the easy bit.
It also does not interfere with using the attic. The zipper opens; you go up as before. If you are having an attic lift installed, sealing the access at the same time makes sense while there is already someone working on the opening.
Frequently Asked Questions
It's made of durable, space-age materials bonded to micro-fiber urethane insulation, so it's lightweight and thin but still effective as an air and thermal seal.
Yes. The U.S. Department of Energy notes that even a quarter-inch gap around pull-down attic stairs can leak as much air as a bedroom duct supplies. Sealing that gap is one of the more cost-effective air-sealing improvements you can make.
No. It uses heavy-duty, corrosion-resistant zippers, so you still have easy access to the attic whenever you need it — the seal just closes back up behind you.
Because it is a hole cut in an insulated ceiling, covered by a thin panel with a gap around all four sides. Nothing else up there is built that way — the insulation stops at the opening and the panel itself has effectively no R-value. Warm air rises, so in winter it takes heated air out of the house, and in summer the flow reverses and hot attic air pours down into the hallway.
Do both, and the hatch is the cheaper half. Insulating an attic floor while leaving the largest single opening in it uncovered is doing most of the work and skipping the easy part. If we are already installing an attic lift or working on the opening, sealing it at the same time makes obvious sense.
It is made in several sizes to suit standard pull-down stair and scuttle-hole openings, and it fits the great majority of homes. What matters is the framed opening rather than the panel or ladder itself, so that is what we measure. Unusual or site-built openings are worth us looking at rather than guessing from a size chart.
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