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Loft storage

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Kpossible929
Kpossible929 Posts: 62 Forumite
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So we finally moved into our new house on Wednesday. We have a pretty big loft, one of the previous owners had boarded the floors.

I’m looking to store stuff like Xmas decks, boxes of empty dvd cases, bags of teddy’s. Quite a bit of stuff but nothing even remotely heavy. Online it says you shouldn’t store anything heavy etc in your loft, would I be ok with what I plan to store as long as I distribute the weight?

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  • Lioness_Twinkletoes
    Lioness_Twinkletoes Posts: 1,573 Forumite
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    It'll be fine. My loft is full of stuff and often has my 15 stone bodybuilder son marching around up there looking for things. You are worrying unnecessarily.
  • SallyDucati
    SallyDucati Posts: 560 Forumite
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    When was your house built? If it's an older one (eg. used to have a big heavy water tank up in the loft) you'll be fine. If it's a newer build they are not designed to have much up there. As long as it's nothing heavy you should be fine.
  • Kpossible929
    Kpossible929 Posts: 62 Forumite
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    It was built in 1960, the cold water tank is in the bedroom above the hot water tank so there are no water tanks in the loft anymore. I think it!!!8217;s one of those FTB panics that I!!!8217;m now responsible of the ceiling falls through etc and I can!!!8217;t just get the landlord to fix it lol
  • sal_III
    sal_III Posts: 1,953 Forumite
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    I think the heaviest thing of what you listed would be yourself, so if you feel confident walking/crawling in there should be fine.
  • Lioness_Twinkletoes
    Lioness_Twinkletoes Posts: 1,573 Forumite
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    SallyDucati wrote: »
    When was your house built? If it's an older one (eg. used to have a big heavy water tank up in the loft) you'll be fine. If it's a newer build they are not designed to have much up there. As long as it's nothing heavy you should be fine.

    Mine is relatively new (2000). Never had any concerns regarding the loft and weight.
  • walwyn1978
    walwyn1978 Posts: 837 Forumite
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    If it's boarded out and it was built in the 60's you should be absolutely fine to wander round up there.
  • Bass_9
    Bass_9 Posts: 151 Forumite
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    Yeah I'm sure you don't need to worry, unless for some reason you have a solid gold Xmas tree I'm sure you'll be fine. :)
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