Place the rolled foil in one corner of the attic.
Using foil in attic.
Your insulation has little peaks and valleys in it usually these little peaks work perfectly to keep most of the foil a little bit.
Continue to roll the foil until it is completely laid.
The attic overheats the house becomes warmer and your air conditioning bill.
So just lay it out nice and easy.
In fact a florida solar energy center study which compared different roofing materials with various venting ratios and with or without radiant barrier systems rbs found that a black shingled roof vented at 1 300 vent area to ceiling area with an rbs had a 6 1 reduction in attic temperature at design maximum summer conditions and a 26 4.
The foil works best and is most effective if there is about a 1 2 gap between the foil and the top of the insulation.
This application leaves the foil with an air gap the attic space so the foil works to block radiant heat from emitting emissivity into the attic space and ultimately the home.
Well we heard some folks were doing this installing reynolds wrap aluminum kitchen foil in their attic to block radiant heat and we wanted to learn more.
Laughable isn t a very quantifiable term.
Carefully roll the foil open so that its beginning edge is directed at the attic s corner.
So almost 4 years ago june 2010 we put out a blog post offering a free roll of insulation for anyone who would share details of insulating an attic with reynolds wrap kitchen foil.