Published on 07/30/2026 — By Jackson Neal

Two winters into owning this house, the guest room above the garage got cold enough that nobody wanted to sleep in it. I blamed a drafty window until a home inspector, in for an unrelated refinance appraisal, flagged the attic insulation as “original to the house, estimated 20-plus years old.” That sent me up with […]
Published on 07/28/2026 — By Jackson Neal

If heat rises and cold sinks, how does the same batch of insulation in my attic work in July the same way it works in January? I ran into that exact question on a Reddit thread while I was trying to figure out why my upstairs office turns into a sauna every afternoon, and it’s […]