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To sister them I'd need to get 4.5m long joists into the loft for a start, clean out all the crap that's currently in between the joists and put weight on the existing joists to get at the end of them that meets the roof at the front of the house. It seems easier to construct support from...

Just a loft ladder, given the lack of enough height in the loft to comply with building regs this is just for storage your honour.

I thought about that, but there's a stud wall down the middle of one room. If I go perpendicular I'd have the stud wall at one end of the new joists.

dims? Pretty sure they're 400 centres

Maximum span is 4.5m

Yeah they'd need to be significantly deeper, I'd lose at least 6 inches in head height and it's already only just bearable. Getting 4m long joists into the loft is also a consideration, this way I don't have to worry about that

Because the new joists are deeper than the existing ones by some margin, so I'd lose head height in the loft.

how can they go under the current joists? By working out where the current joists are and putting new joists under them. There will be the ceiling in between them obviously but so what, the new joists will still support the old ones :)

Hello, new to the forum but hoping to get some feedback on this idea. Currently in my house (a 1900 built terrace) I have an office / workshop / dumping ground for all the half finished projects I have going on. Unfortunately, due to my wife deciding to go and get pregnant (I may have helped...