Plasterboarding Loft Space

[Westovski]

Hi all, long time lurker here.

I'm intending to plasterboard my loftspace soon and from what i can gather it's a bit of a minefield.

Ultimately, what i want to achieve is a fairly clean mostly dust free loft space.

It's not going to be a 'room' so i'm not going through building control, and neither do i intend to have it plastered.

The reason i'd like to plasterboard it, is that i'll be having a homeserver sat up there and a switch and various other bits of technical guff that don't like too much dust floating around. I'll be up there fairly frequently sat in front of the server doing a bit of tweaking etc and i'd rather not have to change into my scruffs everytime i nip up there.

I've boarded out the floor already over some new insulation, but the next step is to insulate the loft space itself and then plasterboard.

From what i can gather, the foil stuff is the best way of insulating a loft, and then plasterboard straight over that, i plan on using the most lightweight plasterboard (9.5mm?). I will need to insulate to avoid extreme temperatures because of the equipment.

Is there anything else I need to take into consideration?

Thanks in a advance

 

[NickB_99]

The reason i'd like to plasterboard it, is that i'll be having a homeserver sat up there and a switch and various other bits of technical guff that don't like too much dust floating around. I'll be up there fairly frequently sat in front of the server doing a bit of tweaking etc and i'd rather not have to change into my scruffs everytime i nip up there.

I've boarded out the floor already over some new insulation, but the next step is to insulate the loft space itself and then plasterboard.


Is there anything else I need to take into consideration?

Sounds a sensible thing to try to use some loft space for this server room - but if you have insulated the floor, surely no heat will come up into it and will it not get cold & damp in there? This I'd think is more of a problem than dust to your equipment.
Are you planning on an additional heat source in there (excluding your server )

 

[Westovski]

It's more the warmth in the summer i'm concerned about, the cold shouldn't really damage the electronics, damp isn't a problem either really.

I know loftspaces get boiling hot in the summer and I don't want to have tons of fans running up there all the time

 

[DevilDamo]

How about looking at some kind of mechanical ventilation so in summer, the loft doesn't get too hot, thus causing the sever to malfunction?

 

[razer]

you can buy 6mm plaster boards they are great for slabbing nice and light best of luck