Clearing Out The Loft

[bron]

I moved into a mid terrace a few months ago and recently ventured into the loft. It's a right mess. It looks like a building site. I assume it's all junk left up here from the builders when they put walls up between the houses in the loftspace? There is tons of rubble and it's very very sooty with fine dirt everywhere.

I enquired to hire shops about a industrial site clearing equipment, but either the hoses are not long enough or the unit is too big to get in the loft access. I've been manually doing it with a dustpan/handbrush with rubble sacks, but even with a dust mask it's getting a little much and obviously the air gets dense with dirt.

Does anyone have any sugestions for clearing it out so I can put a bit of flooring down for storage?

 

[Diyisfun]

How about spraying a fine mist of water.
I think using dustpan & brush is probably the cleanest way

 

[JohnD]

you can use an Aquvac or similar. You can easily lift it into the loft. Take some strong plastic sacks up with you to put the dirt into and lower it down (tape then shut so they don't spill in the house). Shovel up the big stuff first.

The fine black dust you find in an old unfelted loft, especially in a city, will clog the filter, but you can buy paper liners to put inside an Aquavac. They may be punctured if you suck up sharp bits of broken brick.

If the loft is not felted it will soon get dirty again

Use a dust mask.