Loft Insulation - boarding and B&Q covered stuff

[stormyuk]

Hi,

I have been thinking of increasing the loft insulation I have. My house was built in 1994 and has about 3-4 inches of itchy stuff at the moment.

I was thinking of boarding out a small portion of it just to store empty cardboard boxes etc, nothing heavy. If I do this and buy a load of the B&Q covered loft insulation will it be okay to just lay the insulation on top of the existing stuff and also on top of the boards I put down?

Is this a big no no to lay insulation on top of boards? Will the efficiency be totally negated etc?

It will just make the job easier as I dont fancy having to increase the joists.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Thermo]

fine to put more insulation on top of the old and put the boards over the top of the existing boards. Theres no real weight, nice little job for a sunday morning. (then you can spend sunday afternoon getting the insulation and dirt off of you!)

 

[stormyuk]

Thanks for that, so its ok to have the following then:

Insulation (new) ++++++++++++[storage space]
Insulation (new) ++++++================ boards (new)
Insulation (old) ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

So some of the new boards will be covered until if/when/ever I need the space for storage of light boxes.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[masona]

No need to put insulation on top of the boards