Have now torn up a bit more and looked, and it doesn't seem to be built as I thought. Instead, next to the opening, there are 2 standing logs supporting the logs above. Then there seems to be some horizontal plank after the 2 standing logs. Throwing up a few pictures, it's so hard to explain. These pictures are on the right side from the outside. I'm on the left side where the gable is, but haven't gotten there yet.
What I have in mind is to first place a support in the middle, then cut away the standing logs on both sides, then move them out to the sides about 20cm each, or replace them with standing glulam beams or planks. The question is, what dimension is needed?
I know absolutely nothing about timber houses/constructions, but spontaneously I would probably backtrack and rethink. It doesn't feel good at all to start removing supports when it looks like that, I wouldn't have dared to do it. At least not without consulting someone I know is skilled in their field and has experience working with timber. But that's just my two cents...
I was thinking of cutting away the standing ones and replacing them with 90x90 glulam beams as support under the horizontal logs, I think it's 3 maybe even 4 of them.
So, if you were to follow the advice on this forum, the world would come to a complete standstill. You're not supposed to renovate three-thousand-year-old houses because they'd collapse at the next gust of wind? Surely you can just renovate and reinforce properly? There are more modern things to fasten with nowadays, you don't have to use any rotten wooden plugs just because that's how it was done in the year 1642.
No one has said that it can't be rebuilt; what has been mentioned is that you should get help from someone who understands how things hold together.
Dymlingar are not "rotten wooden plugs"; the main point of dymlingar is that they stabilize in two directions while being completely hidden inside the wall. The mentioned svärden stabilize in one direction but are also recessed in the wall.
Sure, you can stand there and drive two coach screws into each log through a steel beam, but it won't look very nice with steel beams outside the wall and the heads of the coach screws.
Is that even log-built at all?
I think it resembles an old post-and-beam construction with a few log courses on top. In that case, you can move the posts a bit without causing any harm at all........ but if it is log-built, you have very good reasons to keep your fingers in check and let it be as it is.
Yes, the house is timbered on the other walls, but I'm not sure why it's built like this here; maybe it's some old extension or something like that. I think I'll brace up the wall and cut them off and put 2 standing glulam beams there instead.
No idea what type of building it is, as there are no plans left and I haven't lived here that long yet. But above the floor, it is not timbered all the way, stopping about under the windows, and then there are standing logs there as well up to the ridge. The house is 1.5 stories with a mansard roof, if that means anything. But the lower floor is timbered except where I will open up.
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