Fitting Loft Boards

Is this a wind-up or not? If the boards are too short , then just screw another piece of timber alongside the exisiting joists. Maybe my builder friends will shoot me down on this, but I really can't see a problem.

 

You could cut the boards down to fit.

 

you're on route there to fueling the economy, Once you've made that attic a storage space, you'll begin to fill it with all the crup in your bedrooms,drawers,under the stairs and corners of your house, you will feel great at first cos you've solved a clutter problem, but slowly but surely you will start to fill up the empty spaces faster than a tramp on a kipper, then you'll need a bigger attic,So you build an extension and the process starts all over, STOP NOW, think, stop buying shoite from £1 shops,

 

You been round my house, that is exactly what happened.

 

Cut the boards to fit existing joists.

 

If they are too thin for both edges of your loft board to sit on then they are too thin to take the weight of the loft boards and whatever junk you want to put up there and your ceiling is going to collapse.

 

They are called cleats and you make them yourself or you do what you have already been told.

 

The first board might only be an 1" short of the 4th joist, but that then means the second board will be 2" maybe 3" short depending how you started, the 3rd board will then be even shorter and so on, so as already been said, cut the boards down to suit the joists, not mess about trying to suit the boards.

 

OPTIONS,
Either cut the boards.
Glue and screw timber to side of joist.
Fix two pieces of timber at right angles to the joists.
Use tongue and grooved flooring.
Get a Joiner in.

Is this a Cut or Trussed roof?

 

You lose the will to live sometimes.

 

Has anyone thought of putting manufactures instructions in the loft board packs? it seems there's a need,

 

Think laminated flooring and apply that logic to loft boards! As chippie said, cut board to suit width of ur 3 joist.