The attic was never intended to be usable when they built the place.
Has a ridge vent and gable vents.
I ran more outlets than could ever be needed, plus 2 extra 110V wires and a 220V from near the breaker box to the attic with plenty of wire to work with, 2 or 3 sets of phone lines to every room (back in the day of dial-up), 2 sets of co-ax cable vision wires... Wire was cheap at the time.
The phone and cable wires are in a box near the access hole (14x18"?) for switching around which is which. I hope to never put more than my torso up there ever again.
Then I blew it in. Cheap and easy. Made a huge difference.
I didn't intend it to be that deep. Made an error in the calculations somewhere. Just blew it deeper and deeper until I used all I bought.
After all the wires were installed, I had a company do the walls. Not easy.
Rock wool is 'not compatable' with blown in. They tell me blown in crushes the rock wool or fiberglass flat, so do not include it in calculations.
If nothing else, everyone with only 8" should put the R-38 Pink Panther over the existing insultaion.
Also cheap and easy is the space between the basement walls and first story floor is a large heat loss that few people insulate.
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