How to install a stair handrail.
No attic access in old house.
If it s a vault or there is no attic access in a standard attic space.
How to add stairway headroom.
If there really is no attic access you should ask the seller to install an opening as part of the requirement in all real estate sales contracts that access be provided for the buyer to the property for inspection.
The most difficult part of installing recessed lights in a house with no attic or attic crawl space is running the new wiring.
I d hire a separate inspector for the roof.
Gaps in the attic or between the lower floors and the attic will let heated or cooled air escape to the great unconditioned outdoors making any insulation you add essentially useless.
In this how to video gain easy attic access with this old house general contractor tom silva.
An attic framed with rafters will provide a fairly open space that can be used for storage or even converted to living space.
Getting new cable through finished walls and ceilings while doing.
Some very old homes have attic access only through a removable vent panel at a gable end wall of the roof.
It likely has the same 100 year old kraft paper behind it that provides virtually no water proofing support.
Also the access may a small door the wall of an upper story room or high in the wall between the garage and house.
There are a couple creative yet expensive ways i would consider retroactively insulating the walls of an old house if you are in a far northern climate where it might make financial sense.
When the attic becomes part of the home to be heated and cooled open wall gable vents and roof vents are no longer feasible but the underside of the roof the sheathing and rafters can still.
In this how to video this old house general contractor tom silva corrects a heading bumping staircase.
In contrast a house built using roof trusses will have an attic space full of angled web framing that connects the top chords analogous to rafters to the bottom chord which frames the ceiling beneath the attic space.
A critical part of the property is not accessible so do not go forward with the transaction until it is.