How to lay loft boards for loft flooring.
How to put flooring down in attic.
Put on work gloves safety glasses and a dust mask before entering the attic.
For an easy attic flooring start with a simple laying down of wood planks.
If you keep these close together you will not have to worry about any gaps.
These panels are 18mm thick 1 2m long and only 320mm wide.
Attic dek flooring is an easy to install floor option that provides additional storage space supporting up to 250 lbs.
Another way to add attic flooring is to secure plywood sheets to the floor.
It is made much easier by the production of special loft panel flooring.
Place the 1 by 6 boards down over the floor joists in the attic so that they run at a perpendicular angle to the joists.
Wear long sleeves and pants since fiberglass insulation irritates the skin if it comes into contact with it.
This means they are easy to get through the loft hatch.
Run the boards down along the side of the attic to create the first row.
There are several different types of attic flooring you can use.
To solve this problem add another course of 2 x 4 or even 2 x 6 stringers either on top of the existing joists or attached to the sides of the truss.
If you try to put the plywood flooring directly on the joists it will crush the insulation down and you ll end up with the equivalent of r 15 regardless of what you started out with.