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I'm a bit confused what makes you say that, could you elaborate? Other people in this street with exactly the same houses have bedrooms in the loft as well and did what we're planning to do (we viewed other houses in this street prior to purchase). We're aware that this is not going to be a room...

We're aware it might not be a superb "habitable space", like it's not going to be a room we enter every few days or even weeks. But maybe once a year when the extended family visits for a weekend the kids can sleep up there on a mattress. Or I can put up a small workshop in the corner, and maybe...

Okay, did some more reading. Apparently loft legs are out of the question as they're not meant in between joists but directly underneath the chipboard, and not good for walking, only for storage lofts. So not really what I want. Which means I need to get either the 8x2 beams. Or... find some...

Well my plan is definitely not to put the load entirely just on the existing joists - I'm putting beams in that go over the load-bearing wall on one side and are attached with hangers to the side walls of the house. Just did some more reading up and discussed with the Mrs and it sounds like we...

Ah well. I think it's much older and worse than I thought. I pulled a bit back and took some close up shots. Looking at it like that I think the safer bet would be... wear some old clothes and mask, bag it all up, and clean it all... sigh. Here's an album with pics: Also re-measured the...

They're 4x2 joists, so 100mmx50mm. Unsupported span... hard to tell, I didn't take the fibreglass up since I didn't want to create a mess. But I guess just judging by the dimensions of the walls on the first floor I assume it's the length of the rooms below, so roughly 4 meters. Yeah I think...

Well, that was just to say that in the long run I *might* want to use it for more than storage space. It's something the missus suggested, and it's to highlight that after flooring I want to make it proper nice and tidy, but for now just floor boards to clean it up as it's obviously quite messy.

Hello there, Recently bought a house, and after finishing garden and everything else, the loft is now the "final" project. Did a bunch of reading up, but still have quite a lot of questions... here's a picture of what it looks like: - The current joists are 100 80mm high. I read everywhere...