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Thank you. Can I ask, with apologies for my ignorance, a couple of follow-ups... 1. Are you suggesting I could do both the Sistering AND the battens+plywood? Or should I do EITHER the Sistering OR, for more effort but better result, do the battens+plywood? 2. If I do the sistering, how should...

Thanks for the replies. I am now wondering... If I wanted to replace the joists but without changing the depth of them (to avoid changing the floor height etc), is there some material better than wood that would solve the problem? Thanks in advance.

Hello On the first floor, I have a corridor that is 2.6m wide and 10m long. The joists run across the corridor (and are therefore just over 2.6m long) and sit on the solid stone walls of the similar-sized ground-floor corridor. The joists’ cross-section is 10.5cm deep (ie vertically) by 6cm...