Attic Insulation in Pinehurst, NC

Pinehurst Homes and Their Attics

Cottages With Rooms Under the Roof

Between 1895 and 1897 the resort put up 38 cottages and boarding houses in the center of the village, and the 1996 nomination found 32 of them still standing. The 1973 nomination describes the family cottages as one and a half or two stories, with dormers adding usable room upstairs, and the 1910s brought gambrel-roofed Colonial Revival houses. In those upstairs rooms the ceiling follows the rafters, and a low wall at each side hides a narrow wedge of attic. ENERGY STAR lists the space behind and beneath such knee walls as a place where houses lose air. In a Pinehurst cottage we treat each of those wedges as its own small attic, sealed first and then insulated.

Diamondhead Lots and the Newer Golf Neighborhoods

After the Tufts family sold the resort, the Diamondhead Corporation created about 7,000 lots or units over the following decade, the village's own history says. Roads, water and sewer were built to serve them. The 1996 nomination places the subdivisions and condominiums of the 1970s and 1980s near the golf courses, outside the historic district. By the Census count, the bulk of the village's homes were built from 1970 on. Where one of these newer houses has recessed ceiling lights, their rating decides how close insulation may come. ENERGY STAR says fixtures not rated IC need insulation held 3 inches away, while IC-rated ones can be covered.