Can I put plywood on top of insulation?

You can just screw the plywood to the joists right through the foam board insulation. A bit of a gap between the plywood isn't going to matter.

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Lay rigid insulation boards on the joists and top them with plywood.

The compressive strength of the insulation boards will be plenty for storing whatever you can carry up there. The load will be spread across the joists. It's unlikely that your ceiling will collapse under the weight of a few boxes but if you're planning to put anything heavy up there, you do need to consider the construction of the building in more detail. Rigid insulation boards will insulate about four times better than the same thickness of fiberglass insulation which means you can use 2 or 3" thick boards. Lookup R-values if you're interested. Remove enough of the existing insulation to expose the top of the ceiling joists. Put down rigid foam boards on top of the joists (I'm familiar with Kingspan and Celotex in the UK). Tape the boards with foil tape to keep them together and stop draughts. Top the insulation boards with plywood or chipboard. Screw the plywood sheets together with short strips of wood to avoid them slipping apart from each other and leaving gaps or find some way of pinning them in place around the edges. (I didn't do this at home and they've shifted a bit). Use the fiberglass insulation that you removed to top up the insulation in the rest of the attic (where you didn't lay the rigid boards). I've done this in our house in the central part of our attic. The problem we had was getting the boards (insulation and chipboard) through the small hatch but yours may be different. For the chipboard, I bought narrow tongue-and-groove "loft boards" designed for this purpose but for the insulation I had to slice it in half on one side and snap it back on itself to be able to get it into place; then I taped it back together. I haven't yet needed to get to any of the electrics underneath. Some of the wires were rerouted around the edge and the bathroom fan is away under the eaves with hardly any headroom so still accessible under the mineral wool insulation.

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