Getting ready for winter.

There are a number of projects that I am trying to complete before winter gets here. One of the projects is to add insulation to the attic over the old section of the house. The new section of the house has good up-to-date insulation, but the old house has 1940-1960 insulation. The first thing I needed to do is to cut an entrance from the new section of the house to the old section of the house. The picture below shows the connection point in the attic where the old outside of the old house can be seen from the attic of the new house. The old house section has about 3" of old blown-in insulation covered by a 3" inch layer of fiberglass insulation between the 2"x8"s. I plan on covering everything with 12" fiberglass insulation running at a 90 degree angle to the 2"x8"s. The new hole between the attics let me move a number of large rolls of insulation into the old attic. (you can just see the rolls at the end of the attic.