LOFT STORAGE LFTSTRPLN002 Stilts Box of 32, Black

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Ensure that the loft is well-lit so you can see exactly what you’re doing. Ideally, try to use several LED lights in various locations – LEDs won’t heat up and give off a powerful bright white light. Note: Only do this step if the old insulation has been damp due to water leakage. Or if the insulation looks like it could cause a fire hazard, such as having incredibly large amounts of dust collected on top.

These screws are suitable for fixing tongue and groove boards to loft legs. They can also be used to fix loft legs to the joists. You reduce the amount of moist air within your home. Activities such as showering, cooking a dryer clothes create moisture. Any moist air within your home will raise when heating, thus entering your loft space. Make sure you install extractor fans in your bathroom and kitchen. Ideally you should choose extractors that directly vent to the outside, rather than recirculating ones.Make sure your loft space have adequate ventilation. Ideally there should be a cross flow of air in your loft, from one eave to another. The air enters your loft via the soffit boards within the eaves. We tend to hold onto nostalgic items. They are usually the things we want to keep but not necessarily display, and so we store them for safekeeping. One popular solution is to keep them boxed up in an attic, which is only possible if loft boarding is installed first. What are loft boards? Usually customers go for standard glass fibre insulation. It is the most cost effective solution. Loft Ventilation So with the modern trusses you have in your house will probably be limited in terms of access and space and you will have to work out how much space you can effectively use. You will probably have one of these popular configurations which are a real pain to board out. It allows you to maintain the full height of your insulation (to Government guidelines of 270mm without impairment)… with no squashing (which is a massive no-no)!

These boards have a tongue and grove system, which means they simply slot together. The separate boards are narrow enough to get through your loft hatch.We even take this concept further by installing shelving solutions for some customers. This involves building simple but highly useful shelves so that you can store items above the loft floor level. We use the structure of the roofing timbers to do this safely and you can imagine how much extra storage space this adds! 3. It helps to prevent heat, and money, loss!