Treadmill in attic

glineli

Hi

My attic has rafters that are 22" apart, 4.5" x 1.5". I would love to be able to put a treadmill up there but after reading a few posts on here it looks like its a non runner.

Is there anything that can be done to reinforce the rafters to make them suitable, without doing a massive conversion effort?

The attic has block on one side wall and is timberframe on the other.

any help would be great

thanks

teepee

Hi ,
At 22inch centers it has to be a truss roof , there no way of doing this on the cheap , talk to a strucural engeiner , you would what a min of 8ft head height for a room to work right . The proper way this should be done is that the rafters / joist should be at 16 inch centers and the timbers be 225*44 mm with min span of 2400mm . Sorry but thats the way it is , timbers would never support that weight and vibrations and the plaster bord would pop on the under neat of the joists .

del88

Needs to like this...leaving the floor and ceilings underneath completely separate....

mickdw

If you have a shortish span at any point, it might be simple enough. If its a single story house, its most likely that the internal walls could carry additional loads thereby allowing you to create a reinforced area for the threadmill. Structural advice is not allowed here though so get an engineer to have a look.

glineli

Thanks for the replies. Going to try to get in touch with a structural engineer and see what the story is.

thanks again