[panthar]

I have media room on 2nd floor, and garage on 1st floor below.

my media room does not have any equipment cabinet, I am planning to cut the wall and make a cabinet. I have attic access on the side of media room from the garage roof. Since garage is very wide room and media room is bit smaller .. so I have a side attic on top of garage roof.

Garage roof has joice but they are like screwed to media room floor sides, I want to walk in that attic to reach one point to cut the hole in the wall ...

Question is can I walk on those joices ? I am attaching pictures to show what I mean.

 

[panthar]

This is how joice looks when I stick my head inside the attic access

 

[oh'mike]

How much do you weigh?

Just joking---those 2x4s will support your weight----but not much more,so don't plan on using that for storage---

 

[mako1]

How much do you weigh?

Just joking---those 2x4s will support your weight----but not much more,so don't plan on using that for storage---

Hard to tell from the pic but those are the widest 2X4's I've ever seen.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Get some 1/2" plywood, rip it into 2 ft x 8 ft strips, lay them out on the joists tight against the LVL and screw them down to the joists. Make sure the ends butt together on a joist. They will spread your weight across several joists and make it less likely that you'll accidentally fall through the ceiling.

You can remove them, but if you do remove them, that will guarantee that you'll have to go fix something with the media center in 2 months.

 

[ront02769]

You can walk on those easily unless you are like 300 lbs (and maybe even then). Still easier to toss something down to walk across as noted. Ron.

 

[ToolSeeker]

Can be a bear getting big enough pieces of plywood thru an attic hole to do any good but those 2x6 will hold you. But if you can get plywood up there it's pretty nice to work on.

 

[panthar]

ok I will get a playboard 2 X 4 squeezed into attic and use to stand ... my only scare was that that there are only 2 nails holding a single joice ... would that be strong enough to hold me ... I am 180 Pounds ... someone was asking .... I will mostly walk few times all of them but sitting for an hour or so to cut and get the new cabinet installed ...


NOW my second question ... inside cabinet I am going to put equipment like receiver ... BD platyer ... Xbox ... the attic will get real HOT in summers ... we live in Texas ... how do I prevent that damage to equipment ... will I need to put thermoply on the outside of cabinet ? will that be sufficient ? or will I need to installed twin drywall outside with thermowool sandwiched inside ? what do you think ?

 

[mako1]

I would suggest adding some ventilation to the cabinet.A long vent in the top rear and some vented pancake fans on the lower front sides.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

ok I will get a playboard 2 X 4 squeezed into attic and use to stand ... my only scare was that that there are only 2 nails holding a single joice ...

The joists should have metal hangers on both ends. There should be a nail (usually 10d) in every hole. I can't quite see in your picture, but there should be four nails into the LVL holding the hanger to the LVL, two on both sides. There should be two (maybe four) more nails diagonal, one or two from both sides of the hangar, that should penetrate the end of the joist and go into the LVL. 6-8 nails total.

So long as this was done, the hangers should be fine and will easily support your weight.

 

[ToolSeeker]

Yep looks like 8 nails per hanger. Your equipment won't be in the attic just the wiring. Attic should be ventilated but if your worried add a thermostat controlled exhaust fan.