Flooring A Loft Over Insulation

However insulation boards are expensive and don t solve the airflow problem.

Flooring a loft over insulation. Specifically made for the thermal upgrade of loft spaces at ceiling level. But before even they can start on a job that involves altering your home s structure they ll. We love the eko loft insulation roll eko is a new range of insulation available at b q.

An alternative is to buy insulation boarding which is laid over the joists. This is done to make up the insulation depth then laying chipboard over it. Joists are usually spaced about 300mm apart.

Space them 1m apart along the joists. This project shows you how to lay loft bording over insulation while keeping the required amount of loft insulation both at the old depth of 100mm and the new increased regulation depth of 270mm. 1 put on work gloves safety glasses and a dust mask before entering the attic.

This can be done using loft legs. The floor level can be raised by attaching counter battens to the top of the joists. Bringing the floor up to code modifying an attic floor s joist system is a job for the pros.

Build up the height of the joists prior to installing flooring when the insulation reaches the tops of the joists. Loft insulation boards are used where a loft conversion is to take place but boarding a loft for storage simply requires insulation under the loft floor. The best solution is to build a raised loft floor above the insulation details of which are shown below.

They should be fixed along every joist the floor will be. In order to achieve over 100mm of insulation you will need to raise your loft boarding. Screw the loft legs directly into your floor joists.