I need some extra storage in my house and as I have high ceilings, I'm wondering if it would be possible to build a freestanding mezzanine out of wood?
Freestanding because it's an old tenement building and I want to keep drilling into walls at a minimum (joist hangers are not really an option). I've googled for ages and can't find any solid information. Wooden kits are either too small (glorified loft beds really) and the steel ones either too expensive and/or too large.
My room is 3m wide, so ideally I'd be looking to have a platform of around 3m wide, 1.2m depth at around 2.5m high. I would like to span the width of the room as I don't want a pillar/post in the center of the floor but at 3m wide, I'm concerned about sag.
Is this something that's even possible or is it too big a job for a moderate DIY-er?
Freestanding because it's an old tenement building and I want to keep drilling into walls at a minimum (joist hangers are not really an option). I've googled for ages and can't find any solid information. Wooden kits are either too small (glorified loft beds really) and the steel ones either too expensive and/or too large.
My room is 3m wide, so ideally I'd be looking to have a platform of around 3m wide, 1.2m depth at around 2.5m high. I would like to span the width of the room as I don't want a pillar/post in the center of the floor but at 3m wide, I'm concerned about sag.
Is this something that's even possible or is it too big a job for a moderate DIY-er?
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