Hot mess.
How would you clean the air in the attic, which I use for storage.
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Bea Moore
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It has solid, wood floors, but they laid out insolation on top them, which keeps our apartment downstairs warm, but I want to make it into a boutique style storage, I collect clothing and alter/upcycle or resell it. There are some old carpets on top of the insulation, and you can walk on them around the area, but I desperately need to get rid of the dust flying in the air in there. The carpets can be vacuumed, but I need ideas to organize this old, typical, unfinished attic. I don't mind the exposed beams.
I would love to use the area in the attic to take pictures for my online store but have to do it inexpensively and without major changes, since this is a rental. The worst thing about it is the dust. And it's not just on the floor but in the air too.
Those packing thingies will be removed of course, along with other garbage.
Thank you in advance.
Hot mess in a need of a makeover.
Attic fans, they're the greatest thing for keeping air moving attic & below.
Yes, it is too bad that the insulation wasn't laid under the floor boards and that must be addressed if you are to use this attic at all. Have you thought about a window in the roof? I sort of do the same thing. . . but not just clothes but all linens and textiles. I have many of these things stored in my attic but we have windows and all insulation is covered up.
No idea what "boutique style storage" is but is there any insulation between the ceiling below and these boards? How about simply covering the whole thing with a 'floating floor'? Lay down a grid of 4" x 2" lengths of wood (try to lay these at right angles to the original beams for extra support) so they will accommodate sheets of flooring - it's a horizontal version of a stud partition wall except you're screwing sheets of flooring down instead of hanging sheets of drywall. You can now add 4" thick insulation.
you should get some oxygen bomb plants they take the toxins out of the room and puts oxygen in its place
Please be careful. Many kinds of insulation are unsafe to inhale, and can cause lung diseases. Take a small clump of it and ask someone knowledgeable what it is. Perhaps you shouldn't be using the attic at all, because all that dust is in the air, and you can inhale it, and it gets on the clothing you have there, too.