Bought a small brick Colonial last June.
Attic has blown-in fiberglass between the joists on the floor. The joists are covered with plywood.
I want to keep using the attic for storage, but I also want to insulate it better. Also, the fiberglass fill seems to generate lots of unpleasant dust.
My questions:
(1) Would fiberglass batts generate less of that dust? Right now when I go up there, I feel like I have to wear a cheap respirator, and over time the dust gets on the stuff we put up there, which is annoying. (If it were just general dust, I wouldn't care, but I get worried that it's fiberglass dust.)
(2) Insulation-wise, the space under the "floor" (height of joists) is a little less than 6". Reading about insulation on-line, seems like that's not a lot of insulation---so it might not even be worth insulating better. (Apart from the dust issue.) If we add more, though, we'd either have to get rid of the floor boards and have no storage space, or, as a friend suggested, increase the height by nailing some wood on top of the joists, then putting the floor boards on top of that. Is that a good idea?
Temperature-wise, it's not that cold here---I live in the greater DC area.
TIA,
S