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Hi thanks, yes. I read here and elsewhere about the different methods and it came down to a trade-off between cost and ability to do it myself. I think the cheapest way would have been to raise the height of the joists with timbers and lay sheet chipboard/osb/ply or whatever. But I'm a small woman so my ability to get these up a fully extended ladder and then manoevre them around the loft single-handed without going through a ceiling is a bit limited! So I priced up using the loft legs and boards against the insulated boards and the loft legs version came in £30 cheaper.
This is before I topped up the insulation. Still got to screw the boards down.
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On the whole I'm pleased with them. With the boards on they're solid to walk on. One thing I will say though is that I watched the promotional video about fitting them, the bloke appears to drive screws straight into them with a piddly little driver. I've got an 18v Bosch cordless combi and it wouldn't touch them. I ended up drilling 136 pilot holes to fit them to the joists and will do the same to fit the boards. Still, my time is free!
This is before I topped up the insulation. Still got to screw the boards down.
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On the whole I'm pleased with them. With the boards on they're solid to walk on. One thing I will say though is that I watched the promotional video about fitting them, the bloke appears to drive screws straight into them with a piddly little driver. I've got an 18v Bosch cordless combi and it wouldn't touch them. I ended up drilling 136 pilot holes to fit them to the joists and will do the same to fit the boards. Still, my time is free!