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Can I make a play space in the attic for the kids, is load an issue?
I have a traditional built stone house 85 years old with a steep pitch welsh slate over sarking board roof at 50 degrees. The trusses were built on site, rough sawn 5” x 2” for both rafters and joists. The loft space is 10 metres x 4 metres.
I am converting it to a play room for my two kids, they will get two thirds of the room and one third will be for storage because of where the loft ladder hatch comes in.
I have added hanging posts to all trusses 120mm x 45mm C16 nailed and then single bolted M10 top and bottom. The finished room space width is 2.3 metres. It’s never going to be a room from a surveyors point of view as I can only stand in the middle but is more than acceptable for scaletrix etc!
Two of the trusses are directly on top of load bearing studs below. The rest are sitting on a wall plate on top of the stone outer walls.
I have put down prefinished pine flooring from Wickes 21mm, I’m very impressed with it. I was going to timber clad the walls and inlays with 14mm T&G but when considering paint cost, time hassle etc it is actually cheaper to use the prefinished flooring on the walls. Ive done one gable end with the 10% spare I ordered for the floor and it looks great.
My concern is weight. I will be using 500kg of the 21mm flooring to do floor, walls ceiling, gables etc.
Does anyone have a ready reckoner I could use to work out how acceptable this is? By adding the hanging posts nailed and bolted and tying everything in with the structural flooring timber which I have screwed with SPAX flooring screws I think it’s all very strong and beefed up. There will only ever be some toys, a TV, bean bags etc for the kids and some suitcases winter/summer clothes etc in the storage end. I’m just a bit overkill with safety and its starting to play on my mind.
Cheers
I have a traditional built stone house 85 years old with a steep pitch welsh slate over sarking board roof at 50 degrees. The trusses were built on site, rough sawn 5” x 2” for both rafters and joists. The loft space is 10 metres x 4 metres.
I am converting it to a play room for my two kids, they will get two thirds of the room and one third will be for storage because of where the loft ladder hatch comes in.
I have added hanging posts to all trusses 120mm x 45mm C16 nailed and then single bolted M10 top and bottom. The finished room space width is 2.3 metres. It’s never going to be a room from a surveyors point of view as I can only stand in the middle but is more than acceptable for scaletrix etc!
Two of the trusses are directly on top of load bearing studs below. The rest are sitting on a wall plate on top of the stone outer walls.
I have put down prefinished pine flooring from Wickes 21mm, I’m very impressed with it. I was going to timber clad the walls and inlays with 14mm T&G but when considering paint cost, time hassle etc it is actually cheaper to use the prefinished flooring on the walls. Ive done one gable end with the 10% spare I ordered for the floor and it looks great.
My concern is weight. I will be using 500kg of the 21mm flooring to do floor, walls ceiling, gables etc.
Does anyone have a ready reckoner I could use to work out how acceptable this is? By adding the hanging posts nailed and bolted and tying everything in with the structural flooring timber which I have screwed with SPAX flooring screws I think it’s all very strong and beefed up. There will only ever be some toys, a TV, bean bags etc for the kids and some suitcases winter/summer clothes etc in the storage end. I’m just a bit overkill with safety and its starting to play on my mind.
Cheers
