Attic Tent Air Seal Your Attic Access Door

The attic access door is, typically, one of the largest sources of air leakage from your living space into your attic. The us Department of energy states, on its website, that a gap as small as ¼ inch around your pull-down attic stairs can leak as much air as is supplied by a regular bedroom air duct. Air sealing and insulating this leak is essential to improving your home's energy efficiency. Until now, there hasn't been an easy solution to sealing this problem area around the attic hatch while maintaining easy access to your attic. The Attic Tent® is the solution you have been looking for. It will seal and help insulate this vulnerable point in your home's defense against budget-breaking energy loss. It is simple to install, requiring perhaps half an hour, and will dramatically reduce energy loss - favorably impacting your energy budget.

The patented Attic Tent® is made of space-age materials bonded to micro-fiber urethane insulation - so it is light, thin and effective. The Attic Tent® uses heavy-duty zippers that will not corrode insuring easy access for years to come. This product will keep your valuable heated and cooled air in your living space where you want it. But as an added benefit, the Attic Tent® also helps keep your house clean and improves your indoor air quality by keeping attic dust, and your insulation, in the attic where they belong - not on your floors or in your air. After all, who wants extra fiberglass, and pollutants coming in from your attic through that giant crack 24 hours a day.floor hatches 

If you really want to see how much air is leaking around your attic access door, all you need to do is get out your smoke pen and run it around the perimeter of your access hatch. Watching the smoke vanish through the crack as fast as the pen makes it will show you why this is considered one of the single largest holes in a typical house.

Installation is very simple and only requires a carpenter's staple gun to tack the tent down, but for a tighter seal you can follow this up with a bead of gun foam around the outside edge to make the most air-tight seal possible. This is about a fifteen-minute project. With a good bead of gun foam around your Attic Tent®, try the smoke pen test again and see how the smoke now has no ready-made escape route. That's one less place for your energy budget to trickle away.