Now boarding...

[pm215]

I've just had a builder in to partially board my loft and fit a loft ladder so I can get into it. This is something I've been meaning to do for ages, since it's irritating to have a part of my house which I can't access (even if only to check whether the roof is leaking). So now I have boarding on most of the usable part of the loft, and a nice

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[qatsi]

How old is your house? There look way too few rafters in there (i.e. space enough to walk about in).

[pm215]

It's an early-70s end-of-terrace. There are two roof trusses (the other one is just out of shot, the photo shows a bit more than half the width of the house).

[pm215]

...looking again at the photos, it definitely doesn't look like a standard modern trussed rafter framework, though. There's clearly a big fat load-bearing timber running horizontally across where the outer diagonals meet the roof (I think this is called a "purlin"), the inner diagonal is a single timber whereas the outer diagonal is two, and so on.

[venta]

Nice. Not seen a folding ladder like that before!

[robimayd]

Very neat ... but not as neat as Robert's, which has one end fitted with a circuit of boards at waist height ready for the model railway ...