How To Build A Attic Knee Wall
But you do so at the expense of floor space.
How to build a attic knee wall. Face the knee wall with the appropriate size of drywall. Mark the line that the angle forms along your 2x4. Push the knee wall firmly into place. Nail down the sole plate the bottom of the wall in three or four places into the attic floor.
A knee wall is a short vertical wall roughly two or three feet high that blocks in that useless triangular space. Install an air barrier on the exterior of attic knee wall insulation and to block open floor joist cavities under attic knee walls. Install insulation without misalignments compressions gaps or voids in all knee wall cavities. Install a top and bottom plate or blocking at the top and bottom of all knee wall cavities.
Use your saw to cut along this line. The higher the knee wall the greater the amount of useful wall space you create in your finished attic. Measure and mark the rafters at each end of the attic with the desired height of the knee wall.