Laying A Floor In The Attic

Attic dek flooring is an easy to install floor option that provides additional storage space supporting up to 250 lbs.

Laying a floor in the attic.

Mike embarks on a project to lay a floor in the attic loft space. Flooring in the loft or attic how to lay tongue and groove board panel loft flooring. Raise ceiling joists also if the attic insulation is thicker than your ceiling joists you can raise the height of the joists to above the insulation by attaching 2 3 s to their top edge before you attach the attic floor. We need at least 33 inches to get above all duct work in attic.

How to lay attic flooring on top of fiberglass insulation. Attic joists for live loads. House is a open floor plan so not a lot of support walls below. The solid base.

Attic flooring consists of materials as basic as sheets of plywood as well as more elaborate interlocking floor systems. We show you how to lay out tongue and groove loft boards in your loft supporting them on joists for a secure storage floor. Lan to use 2x4x36 upright screwed to ceciing joist every 24 to hold 2x6x12 s up above duct work. If your attic joists won t bear the weight necessary to finish out a living space but the engineer cleared them to support floor decking for light storage you can install inch plywood or.

For an easy attic flooring start with a simple laying down of wood planks. Joist dimensions are only part of the equation. You also need to ensure that the joist spacing is adequate. Another way to add attic flooring is to secure plywood sheets to the floor.

To floor an attic you ll need to install a sub floor for support before laying your plywood floor. If you keep these close together you will not have to worry about any gaps. Mike embarks on a project to lay a floor in the attic loft space. First you ll need to measure the area you want to floor so you can calculate how much wood you ll require.

That creates a problem in support for storage floor and only using support walls below. You ll have to construct a wooden frame or sub floor with boards 16 inches apart to provide extra support for the floor.