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ok thankyou, so how could i increase the size of my ceiling joists without thousands of pounds in expense? if i glue and screw cross battens to them will this make them stronger of will the extra weight cause problems?

i am going to put a raised floor in my loft to accomodate for insulation i am having put down, i have three 6x2's running from gable end to party wall, can i put joist hangers on them and hang new joists from them to make the raised floor area or can this not be done. There is three of them...

i have trailed threw loads of the search results but nothing specificaly matches or comes close to the question i have asked

any suggestions anyone??????????/ :?

hiya guys, hope someone here can solve my head scratching problem. i recently moved into a 1960's semi detached bungalow and have a fair amount of things a wanna put in the loft, i have looked at putting down chipboard but not sure about putting it straight onto the ceiling joists that are...

why would the inspector get involved? i wont be calling him , thats for dure. thought you only needed it checked if it was a full blown habitable room

well he is the same situationa s me really, its purely a room and not being lived in at all, he has just got a t.v, and a pool table up there. In my loft i have two very large beams going from one wall to the other, they run opposite to my ceiling joists, what are these for as nothing is...

ok mate thanks for ya advice, i will look into that. A mate in work today told me that he made a room in his loft and he purely made his 4x2's up to 8x2's by gluing and screwing more wood ontop of them to make them up to 8" joists, and used the galvanised joint plates for extra support, surely...

oh right ok, will he not charge me the earth for it? like i say, it wont be habitable or have a fixed ladder, just purely a room, i heard about sistering the joists? is this any good or how is it done, i dont have a great deal of money so i wanna overcome the problem as cheap as possible

hiya, just recently bought a 1960's bungalow and i wanna convert the loft to a loft room for playstation, big telly etc for the lads and myself. basically i want to no were the land lies with reference to the ceiling joists, they are currently 4X2's, i realise this is not strong enough so how...