Putting Down Plywood In Attic

To make the job easier use a circular saw to cut the plywood sheet first into 2 2 8 strips which will be much easier to handle.

Putting down plywood in attic.

The thinner plywood is acceptable when the joist spacing is 16 inches. Carry a piece of plywood to one of the far corners of the attic and lay it on top of the installed boards. This will add a much more stable platform to your attic flooring and can act as a subfloor if you decide to finish off the attic in the future. But if the floor is covered in plywood you can t stuff enough insulation beneath it to do the job sufficiently not even in warm climates.

This is a particle board plywood already cut into two foot panels for ease in getting the material into your attic. This gives you a ladder and an easy way to get up to the attic and it collapses down to just a panel which can be painted and framed to make it look nice against the ceiling. Use an electric screwdriver to install the flooring base. My attic is located above my garage and currently the former owner had random pieces of plywood placed up there.

You need 3 4 inch plywood. Some screwed others not. Installing attic flooring for light storage only if your attic joists won t bear the weight necessary to finish out a living space but the engineer cleared them to support floor decking for light. Maneuvering heavy 4 x 8 sheets of plywood or osb oriented strand board up to an unfinished attic is sometimes like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

The panels are made with tongue in groove long sides so that it is easy to join them together. If plywood or particleboard is slightly warped it may pull loose if you nail it down. While you can nail the flooring into place a screwdriver will countersink screws and create a squeak free finish. The plywood should be perpendicular to the joists so that a signal sheet spans multiple.

I assume 3 4 inch but there are many types brands to choose from. I wanted to add more plywood to the area and wanted to know if any specific type i should use. Using a nail gun is no guarantee that boards won t pop up. Like the riser the plywood decking should be screwed down rather than nailed for the same reason.

While nailing would be safe for the floor you are laying it could cause problems for the drywall and texture on the ceiling of the room below. Because the simplest and cheapest way to insulate an attic is to add material to the floor. Plan to pull up the flooring and layer new insulation on top of the old. If you plan to finish the floor in the attic and turn the room into a living space however you.