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To ask how you cleared out your loft & how long it took! (Loft conversion)

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Wimbledonwomble · 03/05/2019 13:36

Planning to have loft conversion in early September. I suspect we have more shit than average (husband is a hoarder). When should we start clearing it out and where the hell do we start?

Would love to hear your experiences!

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TeenTimesTwo · 03/05/2019 13:48

I'd just get on with it. You can't put it all back in when the conversion is done!
That said, we have more useful space in our loft since converting than we ever had before!

bagpiss · 03/05/2019 13:50

We're hoping to sell in 2-3 years, I'm going to start sending my adult kids up there to sort stuff when they visit starting from next month!
Ours is packed with years of 'oh no don't throw that away i want it' shit Grin

TixieLix · 03/05/2019 13:56

Our loft is crammed full of crap - stuff we my husband didn't want to throw, but we needed it out of the way. I'm sure there's stuff like a baby walker (my DDs are 18 and 20) and pairs of skis (we haven't been since before the DDs were born!) As we're in the process of clearing out my PIL's house following FIL's passing, it's one of those jobs I know I really have to tackle, but it would take days and days, if not weeks, and would involve multiple trips to charity shops/dump and probably a big skip. I can't face the job on a weekend as there's not enough time. One of these days...

Titsywoo · 03/05/2019 13:56

Start now. Do a box or two a week. So much stuff in lofts is just junk. We keep ours fairly organised so when we had to take it all down for our loft conversion it stacked fairly neatly along a wall in our lounge.

Jeezoh · 03/05/2019 14:21

Start now, it takes ages! We got a skip and did a first sift through to bin anything we definitely weren’t keeping. We then did a second sift of stuff we were donating or selling and finally boxed up all the stuff we were keeping. It takes a lot longer than you think!

spiderlight · 03/05/2019 14:28

We're in the depths of this. We had to get the stuff out of the loft fast and there was tons of it (most of the contents of my parents' house as well as our own crap) so we hired some men and a van to cart it all to a storage unit for us. They got it all out in half a day and it's been much easier to sort through it at the unit where we actually have space and light to see what's what properly. A lot's gone to charity, a lot's gone to the tip. Still loads still to do though eight weeks on :(

Worth it though - we love the conversion and our DS is over the moon with his fab new room.

SpinningDizzy · 03/05/2019 14:29

Start now!!!

SingingSands · 03/05/2019 15:11

Not for a conversion, but when we were selling we started clearing our loft out by doing a bit every weekend. Boxes of books were the worst - I had forgotten that I had gone through a serious chick-lit phase in the early 2000s - there were TWELVE BOXES of crappy chick-lit books, probably all with the same storyline GrinGrin

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