I hate climbing into the attic for any reason, whether it’s service work or a quest to find something that was stored away 10 years ago.
It’s harshly dusty up there, & the number of spiders would make anyone terrified.
My spouse & I used to hide Christmas presents up there until the two of us lost a few gifts one year, only to accidentally stumble upon them years later while reorganizing all of our junk up there. Nowadays the two of us only keep a handful of boxes & random pieces of aged furniture in our dusty attic. After the kids moved out, the two of us started using one of their rooms for any additional storage the two of us might need so that attic access would be a choice & not a necessity. Despite this, there’s one central reason that forces myself and others to keep going back up to that dreaded attic space. Unluckyly, that’s where the air handler for our central cooling system is situated. Whenever I want to update the filter, I have to climb up into the attic & stumble around to get to the air handler without stepping on a piece of air duct or a wooden rafter. Right now I’m noticing a bit of mildew growing on the metal surface of the air handler. It’s easily sizzling outside right now & the air handler sweats condensation while it runs. After enough condensation forms without being able to reasonablely dry, it starts to breed mold & mildew growth. I regularly disinfect it away with a heavy peroxide solution to kill the microbial growth, but I want to figure out a way to better insulate the air handler from the sizzling attic air. Doing so would easily improve the cooling system’s energy efficiency in the process.