I’ve got a barn that currently has a suspended ceiling (used to be a farm shop before farm shops were a thing).
The ceiling is basically some form of fibre board nailed underneath 3×2 joists at 40cm centres and then insulation on top. I’m getting rid of the ceiling because it’s manky, but I’d like to have a bit of a mezzanine floor to store some fairly light stuff on (spare dining chairs, boxes of xmas decorations, etc.)
The problem is that the span of the joists is about 4.5m and 3×2 isn’t strong enough to carry mush weight. Might it be OK to double up the joists using ones that I’m removing completely to effectively make 3×4 joists? Or should I just replace with 6×3 and then chipboard on top?