Hello!
Recently started tearing out our laundry room/mudroom for renovation.
I've torn out all the drywall and am now down to the vertical raw planks.
The idea was to replace this with OSB or something similar to run electrical wires hidden behind.
I've always thought that the "heart wall" in the house is load-bearing...
But according to the building permit, non-load-bearing internal walls should consist of 45x45 studs cc 60, 15 mm raw planks, and 9 mm drywall, making them 93 mm thick.
Load-bearing walls should consist of 45x70 studs, raw planks, and drywall, which makes them 118 mm thick.
Today I measured a bit and there are no load-bearing walls... all of them are 93 mm thick...
The house is a modular house, a Sävsjö Timber House from 1990.
It's an attic-fitted 1.5-story house.
Unfortunately, I don't have a sectional drawing, so I have nothing direct to go on...
It also mentions somewhere that the exterior walls are load-bearing...
Could it be that no interior walls are load-bearing?
The floor beams aren't spliced above the interior wall, but are spliced where they need to be, so to speak...
However, I noticed that this wall, which I thought was load-bearing, consists of a 45x70 lying at the top against the floor joist.
The other interior wall that stands in the other direction towards the kitchen has the ceiling nailed first to the floor joist and then the interior wall... does that mean anything?
Or did they just do it that way because it's simpler?
Here are 4 pictures.
The laundry room is the room down to the left, and the wall I photographed is the one between the laundry room and the living room.
The other two pictures are from the building permit showing how it should be built.
But those load-bearing walls are nothing I can find to the measurement!!
