Attic Dek Vs Plywood

Cost of plywood vs osb.

Attic dek vs plywood.

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 storage you can install inch plywood or. Oriented strand board osb board that soaked in my bathtub overnight swelled almost 1 4 in. Covering the attic floor with plywood provides extra space in a home. Plywood is less expensive than attic dek and is eco friendly.

After much consideration about total weight and effort i decided on the attic dek. For a typical 2 400 sq. Because builders generally regard attics as little more than structural space in a home builders rarely complete them for use. And stayed swollen while the plywood remained stable.

Don t store osb in a full bathtub. Joist spacing and attic use the joist spacing in some attics is 24 inches and 1 2 inch sheets will sag and possibly break when spanning that distance. You need 3 4 inch plywood. Osb oriented strand board.

Carrying a shrink wrapped bundle of those plastic panels looks like cake 11 11 2010 08 43 pm. Osb is cheaper than plywood by about 3 to 5 per panel. A plywood subfloor generally uses 1 2 inch to 3 4 inch thick sheets of plywood that have one rough side which faces down and one smooth side which faces up. They are much lighter and easy to install.

Attic dek is a specially designed attic floor system that consists of 16 or 24 squares attached to the top of ceiling joists. I wired two lights into my attic and was planning to make a floor out plywood maybe with a 2x4 base. The sheets are generally 4 x 8 or 4 x 12 feet in size. It may not provide enough support for some of the heavier items you wish to store in your attic though.

Attic dek flooring provides additional storage space that supports up to 250 pounds making it easier than ever to get those cluttered spaces organized. The most common attic flooring option is to use plywood. Both plywood and osb are used for sheathing roofs walls and subfloors. I recently brought up dozens of pieces of 2 x8 3 4 plywood thru my house and into the attic and it was a lot of work.

They kill your knees if you have to kneel on them. The edges of the 1 2 in.