What is Raised Loft Boarding?
Raised Loft Boarding is loft flooring installed ABOVE the level of your loft insulation to protect your insulation and energy savings by leaving an airflow gap between the boards and insulation. This is achieved by fixing the boards onto a strong subframe, which is raised above the joists. Our raised loft boarding over your insulation will save you money. This is something that boarding your loft with timber cannot do.
What is Loftzone Storefloor Loft Boarding?
Loftzone Storefloor is an award-winning, fully patented loft boarding system designed especially for installing loft boarding over insulation, to protect it and enhance the efficiency of your loft insulation opposed to standard boarding which squashes insulation and can even damage your property. LoftZone loft boarding creates a strong safe deck for loft storage or to create a loft access walkway for workman that may need access to your pipework, boiler, solar panel equipment etc.
Your loft floor will be raised using the Loftzone Raised Loft Floor System to protect your insulation, wiring and pipework from being squashed or damaged. This system is the ONLY officially approved method for boarding an insulated loft and meets all BBA and Building Regulation requirements
The Strongest Raised Loft Boarding System Available - The Specs:
• Tri and uni supports made from extremely strong engineering grade plastic.
• Galvanised steel cross beams that are adjustable to accommodate irregular joists – meaning our raised boarding is suitable for all lofts!
• The sub-frame creates a very strong and safe platform in your loft that surpasses the British Standard 6399-1:1996 for minimum imposed floor load requirements.
• It is the ONLY loft boarding system available in the UK to carry parts with the CE kitemark for British Standards.
• The Loftzone Storefloor can hold up to a MASSIVE 500kg’s per square meter (independently tested
What you need to know when you are doing DIY Loft Boarding Project
- Personal protections
- Make sure not blocked any ventilation (pre and post insulation)
- No leak from roof
- should walk on joist, use crawling board screw to the joist while working
- Check and identify cable (some cables are high voltage cables; those may melt if it covered from insulation)
- Please check if there are any downlights. If it is advisable to cover those from fire rated downlight caps. If you don’t put insulation over the downlight you may keep 50mm gap around the downlight but that may lose your heating and also often you can find fire rated downlights, still we recommend you to cover those downlights with fire rated caps as some by mistake change any of those fire rated downlights to normal downlights it may cause fire.
- Pipe insulation and tank insulation jacket helps some energy savings and protect freezing from winter months.
- Don’t keep all loft boards in one place. This may increase weight in that particular area of the ceiling
