MY husband and I want to have a large masterbedroom with an office in it. The best place we can think of is our attick. The attick is about 10ft at it's peak and slopes quickly. It's a perfect triangle. The house is about 90 years old and in great shape. The stairs leading to the attick would need to be moved or at leased made wider. Also we would have to add doarmers to the roof to really give it a cozy feeling. Is this project worth it or should we look into adding on to the house? Also, does having a room in the attick pose any ventilation/insulation/heating/cooling problems? if so what are they and how are they fixed? Our neighbours 13miles away have the same house and have refinished their attick and it looks great though he did the construction himself withought any kind of "code". Will our new room be comfortable or freesing in the winter and blistering in the summer? So many questions so I will leave it at this for now. Thanks in advance

My home is 28x40, a typical rectangle house. I had new shingles put on last year. I had the roofer put in a ridge vent to help with cooling. My ridge vent is a brillo pad looking material. Now every 3rd roof truss has a soffit vent coming up through the R-30 attic insulation. I also have an attic fan in the gable end. and a intake vent so to speak on the other gable. I was under the impression that the attic fan is not needed now that I put in this ridge vent. IE hot air rises out of the ridge vent thus pulling cooler air through the soffit vents into the attic. I would think still using this attic fan might not give me the effect I was looking for. The ridge might pull air for the gable vents and not giving the performance I am looking fore. I am no specialist. I can visualise things pretty good though. Let me try to reword this again. I would think the ridge vent would pull air from the gables and not evenly across the entire roof up the bottom of the roof and then out the ridge vents. Am I thinking to hard on this????