I want to raise the height of a floor on the first floor, to match the height of an adjoining room.
The obvious and easy way to do this would be to run 45x70 C24 perpendicular to the existing joists (with the 45mm being height), as
45mm is exactly the height I want to increase by and I have these timbers already. In addition, I'm nervous about increasing the height of the existing joists as they are narrow (but not undersized for the span) and there is no bracing between them. Running the C24 perpendicular to the existing joists gives the added benefit of cross bracing the existing joists.The existing joists are 50mmx200mm, 400mm spacing, 2.4m span.
Does this sound like a sound approach?
Piers