I tried to put down boards
in my loft once.

The hatch was just big enough to shove 8' x 4' boards through, so I got a few of those, in lovely cheapchipboard, and shoved them through into the loft.

The first thing I discovered was the rafters were all over the place, nothing even close to level. I screwed one end of the board down, and found the other end was hovering about a foot above the timber I needed to screw it to. So I sat on it, and screwed it down.

The other end went *pop*, and flew up with a boinging sound, to end up . . hovering about a foot off the rafter. Now with 3 big holes where the screws had been torn through it.

I went and sat on that end, and it broke in the middle.

Short version: When I moved, my loft had 1 broken piece of chipboard, and 3 good untouched pieces piled on top of the clutter that was already in there.
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