loft boards

Hello, I'm just wondering how to tell if the joists in your loft are strong enough, whether just for storage or to use as a regular room? I'm partly asking because we would like to eventually board the loft void above the rear part of our Edwardian house to use for storage, after insulating...

Looking at boarding the garage out to help with storage and possibly adding insulation later on. My question is can I remove the diagonal piece of wood? So It makes it easier to lay the boarding? Also what do people do when it comes to filling in the joists? How do you fill the small gaps?

I’m adding 90mm of timber across existing 170mm joists to raise loft boards so I can get 260mm of insulation under them Do I need to use treated timber for this job or is untreated OK?

hello my upstairs bathroom renovation is finished now so time to insulate the loft my rafts are spaced 60cm apart raft height 10cm currently there is 100mm insulation between rafts ( house was build 1990) might replace some of insulation I should be straight forward, putting legs 175mm, 1700mm...

Hi all I'm having the insulation in my loft removed and redone (due to mice) and as I wan't to keep the boards on the joits (and keep a cold loft) have been offered the option to have 5cm rockwool pushed up against the ceiling plasterboard, plus a foil quilt (e.g. the YBS superquilt) draped...