– standard modern stairs are 36″ wide. This meant we knew we had room to add the slide and still have room to walk up and down the stairs. The DIY stair slide is 18″ wide to fit kids and adults, and there is still 27″ of walking space next to the slide on the handrail ...
The stairs you pull down to enter your attic must also be insulated. Some excellent options provide an insulated cover that can be put at the base of the top of the stairs opening. An insulation cover will protect much of the heat from entering the attic. This, of course, will also all...
and find the motivation to start. I’ll include two helpful articles at the end of this post to get you started. Take an hour to read them, along with a few other recommended resources on our site—but don’t spend too much time...
But they all end up on one floor of a multi-level home or in rooms down a single hallway. That means access to all boxes can be blocked if something is happening near the stairs or in the hallway. This is particularly common in multi-cat households where there can be tension between ...
In new-construction homes, it is common for builders to install recessed lights directly into the ceiling joists. This means the fixtures are attached from above and require access from the attic space to remove them. However, many homes do not have attic access or have limited access, making...
If you can’t afford to buy a pull-up bar or don’t have one at the moment, there are pull-up bars all around you, if you are creative enough: You can do them from beams in the roof, from stairs, ladders, on children’s playground equipment, ships, road-signs, balconies, fences...
"I had a heart attack," says the first man."You see,I knew my wife was cheating on me,so one day I showed up at home unexpectedly but found her alone watching television.I ran around the house looking for her lover but could find no one.As I ran up the stairs to the attic,I ...
“Install1 cold air return vent in every roomthat is larger than 100 sq ft (10×10)” That’s quite easy to understand. If you have a house with 7 rooms, you need 7 cold air return vents. If you have a house with 12 rooms, you need 12 return vents. ...
through electrical receptacles and switches mounted on exterior walls; and around fireplaces, laundry chutes, attic hatchway doors and pull-down stairways, whole-house fan installations, and pipe and wire chases. A homeowner can go a long way toward increasing energy efficiency by locating and seal...
Homeowners respond by turning down their thermostats to the point that dehumidification does take place, but at the expense of keeping the house much cooler than it needs to be. Installers now use computer software to incorporate such information as window size and placement, insulation found in ...