The Better Homes & Gardens team show how to create more storage in the home by installing an attic ladder, available from Attic Ladders , to utilise the roof space.
Houses with pitched roofs often have a large ceiling area that can be used for lightweight storage. For use as a storage space, the requirements for alterations and reinforcements are not as extensive as they would be if people were converting the space to habitable rooms.
The simple roof spaces to use are those framed in the traditional way with rafters, ceiling joists, purlins and struts.
More modern truss roofs with the smaller timbers and W-shaped webs intrude into the useable space more and cannot be altered in any way without the advice of a structural engineer.
For the eventual in roof storage people can have the area professionally fitted out, complete with attic ladder, flooring, side panelling, lighting and lining with White-Cell insulation.