Cleaning Loft - Waste of Time?

[mcprinter]

if or when you decide to floor the loft, that's a good time to throw out the dirty old insulation, clean up, and lay new. It's much easier to keep a flat, smooth boarded floor clean. You can also put some kind of lining up if you want, though such an old roof may need replacing before long. The new one will have a membrane liner so will stay clean. I really like sarking boards but they are not common in England.

To add new insulation of deeper thickness, you may need to counterbatten the joists otherwise the flooring will crush it.

Loft legs can also be used.

The Area under the old Roof is not very accessible from the Hatch. Banged my Head many times getting back to the Hatch
Don't need the Storage. No plans to put a Floor Down.

Roofer who replaced the last few Slates said it would need redoing in the next 5 Years or so.

 

[mattylad]

Basically I was thinking that if the ceiling does fall in for some reason, the less crap up there to fall down the better.
Although there would be a heck of a mess I was thinking it might be a little less just by clearing up.

This is something I am alwao doing every time I have to take a 1st floor floorboard up, every little helps.

 

[Wayners]

Yes worth cleaning.
Don't some pva the lath and plaster to strengthen? And go carful as it can fall if not in good condition.
LED sunken lights are self contained now and you can roll insulation over.
Also buy liners to make light hole nice and round.
I'm assuming it's lath and plaster

 

[mcprinter]

Yes worth cleaning.
Don't some pva the lath and plaster to strengthen? And go carful as it can fall if not in good condition.
LED sunken lights are self contained now and you can roll insulation over.
Also buy liners to make light hole nice and round.
I'm assuming it's lath and plaster

You answered on my Hairline crack on new Skim in the Plastering Section.
It's your fault that I moved the Insulation
Nothing Crack wise on the Loft side.

Lath and Plaster. Over-boarded, skimmed (roughly) and Anaglypta Papered 20+ Years ago before we moved in.

Halogens came out easily. Nice round 80mm Holes