Roof Vents Above Bonus Room

Bonus room over a garage in the schumacher homes model.

Roof vents above bonus room.

This allows air to leak freely into the room from the space behind the wall which is connected to the outdoors via the roof eave soffit vents. 26 0 2 x6 2 spf 16 oc 8 0 air barrier required in knee walls air barrier required in attic walls insulate r 10 attic access weather strip access to attic minimum. Scale 1 4 1 0 john smith 123 main st currituck nc 555 5555. That s what s happening in a bonus room with the building envelope problems described above.

Storage room 200 sf uninhabitable attic space. Andrew lives in massachusetts in climate zone 5a and would like to turn the space what real estate agents used to call a bonus room into an office. Even with a low ceiling much of the room is very usable. In pressure diagnostics if i close the door to a bonus room and isolate it i often measure a 20 to 25 pascal difference between the bonus room and the main house and you can feel the air pouring in under the door.

The surfaces can get a lot warmer than the surfaces in the other parts of your home so even when the air temperature feels fine the bonus room feels warmer. The roof is framed with 2 8 rafters and already has both soffit and ridge vents but no insulation whatsoever. Bonus room over a garage in the schumacher homes model shed roof dormer adds space to the bonus room over a garage in the schumacher homes model window to the bonus room over the garage in the schumacher homes model. Bonus room 400 sf habitable space.

To make the bonus room comfortable you have keep the heat out by beefing up the building.