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Cheers, mate. My thinking has evolved just over the past day (and after an hour spent crawling around like Gollum, measuring up). I'm now certain it will never be a proper "room" (my idea for where the staircase would hypothetically go won't work, it turns out). But it can be useful regular-access storage. I need to be able to move stuff around and not worry about overloading a particular area. And I don't want the ceilings to crack!To do it properly I'll need 5m joists as the interior wall isn't supporting, and I'm struggling to see how to get a single 5m joist up there, even with a new hatch. Not unless someone invents wobbly wood!But yes, as you say, half the country ain't doing it properly, either. My neighbour is one of them. When he had the ceiling down for other work, he chucked a load of USB sheets up there and just screwed them to the rafters. He hasn't fallen through the floor... yet. But he also admits that he's noticed a couple of cracks in the bedrooms! So I think I definitely want a subfloor of some description. The hard part is figuring out what I can achieve without cutting more holes in the house to get the timber in.
Cheers, mate. My thinking has evolved just over the past day (and after an hour spent crawling around like Gollum, measuring up). I'm now certain it will never be a proper "room" (my idea for where the staircase would hypothetically go won't work, it turns out). But it can be useful regular-access storage. I need to be able to move stuff around and not worry about overloading a particular area. And I don't want the ceilings to crack!
To do it properly I'll need 5m joists as the interior wall isn't supporting, and I'm struggling to see how to get a single 5m joist up there, even with a new hatch. Not unless someone invents wobbly wood!
But yes, as you say, half the country ain't doing it properly, either. My neighbour is one of them. When he had the ceiling down for other work, he chucked a load of USB sheets up there and just screwed them to the rafters. He hasn't fallen through the floor... yet. But he also admits that he's noticed a couple of cracks in the bedrooms! So I think I definitely want a subfloor of some description. The hard part is figuring out what I can achieve without cutting more holes in the house to get the timber in.
