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I have a (very sligthly sloped) flat roof deck held up by 2x8's to which the ceiling for the upstairs room is attached. Therefore, the space between the ceiling and the roof deck is about 7 inches - much like a cathedral ceiling, except that it's basically flat. In each 16" wide channel there is a pitiful layer of R13 fiberglass batt attached to vapor barrier paper laid against the ceiling, with cold air blowing continuously over and arround it from openings at either end ("vents").

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New Lizer Homestead: FINAL CONSTRUCTION PLANS Clerestory Roof, Blueprint Construction, Window Construction, Skillion Roof, Architecture Blueprints, House Plans With Photos, Roof House, Roof Construction, Clerestory Windows

Figured I should post up the final plans here too. Shifted them around slightly, mainly due to the front stairs. Thought we liked an open stair case and the large window heading down, but after much thought we decided the amount of noise transferred from the basement will most likely be overly...annoying. However on the flip side, by reducing the glass in that window, it dropped my solar glass to floor ratio from a high 13% down to a better 9% since there is low thermal mass on the interior…

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