How To Seal Your Attic Door

Treat your attic door as if it was a door leading to the outdoors.

How to seal your attic door.

To properly seal your attic hatch also known as an attic door or scuttle hole at a minimum you should apply weather stripping and ensure the attic side of the attic door is insulated. The stops provide a wider surface for attaching the weatherstrip and a space to mount hook and eye fasteners. Measure the size of the attic access door and cut a piece of insulation slightly larger than that. This way it will create a seal when the door is closed.

Step 2 insulate the door. Learn more below about how to insulate your attic door. The gaps between the edges of the access doors and the. Better yet there are high quality products such as the attic gator designed to both seal and insulate attic access doors and scuttle holes.

Finish up by sealing the access hatch with self sticking weather stripping. To see if the insulation solution moves or falls out in any way. Test out how your insulation sealing fix behaves once the attic access door area is put under normal use. When you re done sealing your attic bypasses push the insulation back into place with an old broom handle or stick as you back out of the attic.

Scuttle hole covers and pull down attic stairs loosely fit into the attic access hole they are covering. Then finish up by sealing the access hatch with self sticking foam weatherstrip photos 10 and 11. Pull down the attic access stairs walk around near the opening etc. If you haven t inspected your attic insulation in a while learn how to inspect and seal your attic before moving on to your attic hatch.

How to seal an attic access door. Use a hammer to drive nails through the material and attach it to the attic door frame. If your hatch rests directly on the moldings like ours did add 2 1 2 in wide stops around the.