Built-in wardrobe load-bearing wall?

[jimbomas]

I have seen a lot of threads on this issue but not any where the roof trusses are visible, as I understand it involves a lot regarding whether the wall is load-bearing or not.

We have built-in wardrobes that I want to replace. The idea is to remove the smaller one (at the bottom of the picture in the circled area), build up an interior wall in the resulting hole in the right room, and demolish the corresponding interior wall in the left room to get a complete wall with a large wardrobe there.

How do you know if the wall is load-bearing? The house is 108 square meters and one-story with a basement. See the picture of how the roof trusses look. From what I've read, maybe this construction doesn't have any load-bearing walls at all, but the roof rests on the exterior walls (brick house). Is that correct? Can I do as planned without consulting anyone for assessment?

 

[justusandersson]

In principle, none of the interior walls in this house are load-bearing. (However, they may have some stabilizing function) Your roof trusses are of the truss type and span freely between the exterior walls. Even with a different type of roof trusses, the closet wall would not be load-bearing as it runs parallel to the roof trusses.

 

[jimbomas]

Thank you for the response! Since I will be keeping the inner wall, though moving it so to speak so that it becomes whole instead of divided, I assume that the potentially stabilizing function should also remain intact?

 

[justusandersson]

Absolutely. But I think the wall between the bedroom and the living room is more important in that regard. This is also related to how the exterior walls are constructed.

 

[jimbomas]

Okay! But all the other walls will remain as planned now anyway, so there are no problems.

 

[justusandersson]

No!

 

[Rabbithole]

The outer walls and the longitudinal wall in the basement are reasonably the only load-bearing elements.