Recent content by Furious Pilgrim

That's just it, I have some heavier things to store up there, hence wanting to beef things up a bit. Considering getting a structural engineer in to have a look. I'm the type of guy that once I know what I'm doing, I'm good to go. Just don't want to make any mistakes. Haha

Never liked being the guinea pig

If the strength of the screws is all I have to worry about, happy days My main concern was the new joists putting strain on the roof structure where it was never intended to have it. I have a tendency to over analyse and over engineer things. I had just thought about running joists in a criss...

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Super. At least I know what I'm dealing with now.

Bear with me, net just went down, trying to sort it on my phone ☹️️

Afternoon all, I'm looking to add new joists to my loft before I put some flooring down. The existing ones are only 2x3, and I would feel more confident if bigger ones were installed. I've looked through loads of threads on here which have helped, but now I'm stuck. I was going to run the new...