Loft Boarding London

Loft boarding or loft floor is a system of raised timbers designed to transform your loft into an energy-efficient storage space. There are two primary materials used to create boarding: chipboard and plywood. Depending on the look you want, they are both perfect; however, chipboard is the most used material for loft boarding projects and ideal for most lofts.

Our boarding installers can use recycled products, and once fitted, the boarding can be left natural or polyurethane spray painted to make a loft look warm and attractive at minimal extra cost.

So why choose to board a loft? Boarding a loft offers a great way to create storage space that is easy to access. It can offer enough space to store all the suitcases, Christmas decorations, travel cots, etc. When boarded, the loft creates a perfect place to store items without causing harm to what is underneath the property. Adding a raised subframe to the floor to lay the boarding on will protect and keep the insulation at its original thickness, maintaining energy savings.

Boarding the loft also means easy access to pipes and electric cables that run in the attic. However, there are some factors to consider before making the loft standard for access and use for storage. An essential aspect of this standard is to ensure you stay within the load-bearing weight on joists. A loft storage area shall be a maximum of 25 kg per square meter.

Purpose and Benefits

Since the purpose of loft boarding is for insulation, we will show you exactly how it is maximised throughout this manual, from the basics to advanced tips. However, some of the benefits of insulating from a storage point of view include free access to additional insulation for more excellent performance, uninterrupted flexibility for using the loft for storage, uninterrupted insulation performance even though your own storage items compress the insulation, and your own storage items being fully supported as they are off the layer between the joists and sub-floor, so the floor doesn't need to be raised. Safe storage is ensured where boarding is securely screwed to the timber joists, allowing for secure and easy maintenance of service items such as ceiling lights or sprinklers.

Due to superior storage handling abilities, you can use the loft for precious, high-quality storage that doesn't eat into your living space or look cluttered. In addition to storing traditional items, we're also able to board over virtually every type of insulation, which includes being able to install underfloor heating in even the smallest spaces by enclosing the system in bespoke aluminium matrix trays and boarding over the entire lot from top to bottom with the option of spanning between joists, allowing for heat-up times between 5mm and 400mm.

In principle, the advantage of a boarded loft is so attractive that we would have had little to worry about trying to promote it. Many customers sell their homes later and report back that due to the loft project they did, the value increase was two and a half times what the installation and the boarding cost originally. Choosing the SuperQuilt Insulation and layout techniques is essential to get the right finish.

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