Take the tour ×  I live in a two story home that is
approximately 150 years old. The attic floor is constructed with
large beams and old wood planks laid across the complete surface
area, rendering the attic useful for storage. The space is not
that large, maybe 26'x 16.' The previous owner of the home
removed the center floor boards and just shoved encapsulated
insulation the length of each bay. This came no where near
filling up the bays in both width and depth. Obviously the
upstairs was noticeably chilly.  Last fall I had new siding and
new main roof installed on the house. At that time I had a ridge
vent installed as well as soffit vents on the front run of the
main roof (unable to do them at the rear of the house because
the main roof meets a flat roof). Due to the nature of the floor
construction in the attic we could not install baffles so we
ended up drilling multiple holes in the wood floor in order
allow some air circulation.  Moving forward, last January I had
a company open up the center few plan