Hello everyone!
I could use some help and opinions from you knowledgeable DIY enthusiasts.
A few weeks ago, my partner and I realized that the bathroom doesn't meet the standards; the tiles in the shower had come loose and taken the waterproofing with them, making it completely unusable. Since the bathroom is very small, we now want to expand it in conjunction with this, and this is where we start to become uncertain. The wall we want to tear down is an original standing tongue-and-groove wall (170*80mm plank) in a mirrored L shape (on the drawn picture), to then frame up a new wall so that the bathroom becomes more or less square.
Considering that it’s still the weekend, it’s not easy to get hold of someone who knows about load-bearing construction, so we are turning to you for now and what you think and believe, whether any of the walls might be load-bearing or if it's free to saw down both walls as early as this evening
In one picture you can see a beam on top of the standing planks, but it ends where the wall ends, so the question is whether it supports anything. Additionally, there are traces of an old original wall on the ceiling since the house was built. We live in a house with a basement and two floors, and this concerns the middle floor. On my drawn picture, there's a red line where the wall used to be once upon a time. Just to be clear, there's a wall on the upper floor directly above the two I want to demolish.
It's probably a very unclear explanation, but I hope it's possible to understand a bit of the info anyway I’m also attaching pictures of the 2 small walls we would like to get rid of (the beam is marked with a blue line).
I understand that it's difficult to assess things like this just by looking at pictures, but I'm grateful for your thoughts and opinions anyway, mostly because it would be fun to get started as early as this evening/tomorrow.
Best regards, // Hvdv
I could use some help and opinions from you knowledgeable DIY enthusiasts.
A few weeks ago, my partner and I realized that the bathroom doesn't meet the standards; the tiles in the shower had come loose and taken the waterproofing with them, making it completely unusable. Since the bathroom is very small, we now want to expand it in conjunction with this, and this is where we start to become uncertain. The wall we want to tear down is an original standing tongue-and-groove wall (170*80mm plank) in a mirrored L shape (on the drawn picture), to then frame up a new wall so that the bathroom becomes more or less square.
Considering that it’s still the weekend, it’s not easy to get hold of someone who knows about load-bearing construction, so we are turning to you for now and what you think and believe, whether any of the walls might be load-bearing or if it's free to saw down both walls as early as this evening
In one picture you can see a beam on top of the standing planks, but it ends where the wall ends, so the question is whether it supports anything. Additionally, there are traces of an old original wall on the ceiling since the house was built. We live in a house with a basement and two floors, and this concerns the middle floor. On my drawn picture, there's a red line where the wall used to be once upon a time. Just to be clear, there's a wall on the upper floor directly above the two I want to demolish.
It's probably a very unclear explanation, but I hope it's possible to understand a bit of the info anyway
I’m also attaching pictures of the 2 small walls we would like to get rid of (the beam is marked with a blue line).I understand that it's difficult to assess things like this just by looking at pictures, but I'm grateful for your thoughts and opinions anyway, mostly because it would be fun to get started as early as this evening/tomorrow.
Best regards, // Hvdv
As I understand your drawing, I would say that the L part of the L is still load-bearing since in the demolitions I've been on, they leave such pieces. The last time I was there, the floor on the upper level got a bit wobbly when they removed too much.. but we'll see if it works out with this renovation as it's not finished yet.. or we'll have to rebuild the wall again ^^
I also wouldn't dare to completely tear down the wall since it's part of an original wall that is central in the house against the chimney. But it seems like you have quite a bit of space above the ceiling. Is it possible to lower it a few cm so that perhaps it can be supported with a load-bearing glulam beam and thus remove the wall?
It was kind of as suspected then, silly to take a chance when you want to keep the upstairs up there.
We are not so fixed on the height as we have a total ceiling height of 2.50, the ceiling there now shall be removed and then there will still be spotlights etc., so the ceiling height can be a bit lower.
Who should you contact to get such a job done, is a carpenter enough, or should you also contact some form of construction engineer to do some calculations and then hand over to the carpenter?
We are not so fixed on the height as we have a total ceiling height of 2.50, the ceiling there now shall be removed and then there will still be spotlights etc., so the ceiling height can be a bit lower.
Who should you contact to get such a job done, is a carpenter enough, or should you also contact some form of construction engineer to do some calculations and then hand over to the carpenter?