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Originally posted by LubeMaster77
I�m not taking finished ones � that takes on the definition of a game room or media room. I mean the stuff of childhood memories of dusty bygone items and shelves pigged together with scrap wood, noisey floors and hanging wires.
After 8 hours worth of weekend work in 120+ F temperatures, finally the attic is organized and show worthy! A place for everything and everything in its place. It provides a nice sanctuary for outgrown toys and other articles of sentiment. Someday it may provide a nice place of solitude for a budding teenager or a retired husband trying to avoid his bride (the garage is too obvious and accessible) but for now it is the assemble of stuff not ready for the yard sale or trash heap.
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I just verbalized a contract with a carpenter today to install the
attic stairs I bought, and lay down about 12 sheets of 5/8ths plywood flooring. Could do the flooring myself, but with the mods to the trusses to clear the stairs, and the framing for the stairs already most of the cost, having them floor the place is almost incidental after the plywood is paid for. Fortunately, our roof is made of very large trusses all made from 2x6 lumber, and on 16 inch centers instead of the required 24 inch centers, making it very strong. There's 108 inches between truss angles too, making for a pretty big space once the flooring is in, about 8 feet by 48 feet.
Photos later this week.