Anyone loft-boarded their loft themselves- and aren't good at DIY??!

[Erebus]

We are seriously considering a garage conversion, which means quite a lot of the crap family treasure stored in the garage needs a home so we are looking to our huge loft (looked at converting that, it would make a great big room BUT would 'unbalance' the house, effectively 4.5 bedrooms and one living room, and we were quoted £50,000...). The middle part of the loft is already boarded, but badly. Nothing is screwed down. We need to refit all that plus get more boarding to do the area just beyond the 'crossed' uprights' that support the roof, iyswim.

How big a job is it? Should we 'get someone in' or DIY? We'd need to buy a power saw but that would probably be a fair-enough investemnt, anyway.

WWYD?

I'd get someone in - it needs to be structurally ok for what you want to store and not come crashing through the ceiling.

I'm reasonably ok at DIY - I re-tiled the bathroom! - but I paid someone to do the loft.

Yes, I've just been up there and realise it probably is a bigger job that we could tackle. We will have to clear the crap heirlooms already up there, though... but I have been through it all fairly recently so tbf most of it is useful and 'necessary', albeit once a year! It's been rather cathartic, actually!