Semi-detached house -78 interior wall load-bearing or not

[Jappse]

Hello, I've recently bought a semi-detached house, moving in November. The transfer of the existing home gives us about 2 weeks to carry out as much renovation as possible. It's difficult to get hold of a carpenter/architect on short notice, so I want to find out what's applicable.

We want to change a wall in the kitchen to create a slightly larger, nicer space. I have some documents below.

Red wall (Image 1) we want to open up a bit, or remove all the way to the blue wall.
Blue wall (Image 1s) Runs parallel to two beams. (The living room is a larger room and not divided as the old drawing shows)

Kitchen wall is approximately 3500 from the outer wall, and the trusses are set with CC 1200mm in the attic.

In image 3, we can see the living room viewed from the back (by the door and window section). You can see that the wall is gone, and they've placed supports for the beam. Observation: Apparently the previous owner before last had run speaker wires through the supports and the beam, and it feels quite hollow. Could it be a clad steel beam?

The neighbor has apparently taken down the wall a bit: I'll go and check today. In contact with the municipality searching for similar renovations and building permits executed in the area without results. A building permit is required if the wall is load-bearing or supportive.

Image 1



Image 3

 

[BirgitS]

Welcome to the forum!

The walls that continue the beams in the living room are likely load-bearing, i.e., the blue wall. However, the red wall is probably not load-bearing, but enough of it must remain for the beam above the living room ceiling to have sufficient support.

Regarding the previous change where a wall was replaced with a beam, there should be a building permit/building notification with some drawings at the municipality.

 

[justusandersson]

@BirgitS's analysis is, in my opinion, completely correct.

 

[Jappse]

Thank you,

The municipality had no building permits they could see.

I visited the future neighbor and their wall was opened as we wish. Apparently, the red wall is made with very sparse studs 900-1200 mm CC and flimsy wood. The ceiling was intact when he removed his wall as the wall was placed after the load-bearing structure according to him. Thanks for the answers.