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