Planning to demolish a wall in the kitchen, the wall is made of brick and my question is whether it could possibly be load-bearing? Attached are drawings and floor plan.
The wall runs parallel with the roof trusses.
The previous owners have already demolished part of the wall if you look at the original drawing, we are planning to demolish about 60 cm more.
Grateful for wise thoughts.
The wall runs parallel with the roof trusses.
The previous owners have already demolished part of the wall if you look at the original drawing, we are planning to demolish about 60 cm more.
Grateful for wise thoughts.
When a wall runs parallel with the rafters, it is normally not load-bearing. However, I'm a bit hesitant in this case regarding the floor plan. Is there any visible beam in the ceiling of the living room? I would like to see more drawings, preferably a section. However, no real estate drawings like the first one.
It looks like the exhaust ventilation from the kitchen goes in just inside the wall piece to the chimney. So if you tear it down all the way to the chimney, you still can't cover that opening with cabinets all the way out.
edit: Removed an incorrect sentence that was only relevant if it had been an apartment in a housing association, which it is not.
edit: Removed an incorrect sentence that was only relevant if it had been an apartment in a housing association, which it is not.
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Thanks, I misunderstood and thought it was an apartment! Embarrassing...Anna_H said:
The board? Is it a BRF-villa? Where does that appear?
I would not call it a brick house, rather it is a lightweight concrete house with a brick facade. On the basement floor plan, you can see the lower part of a section. Show the entire sectional drawing.
That's what I suspected. You have a concrete slab between the ground floor and the upper floor as well. Then you need to see a reinforcement drawing to determine which walls are load-bearing.
Since the house was built in 1957, they may be available at the municipality. It is not certain that they are digitized, so you might need to search in the archive. Without reinforcement drawings, you will not have access to the solution and cannot make any larger openings.
Curious about how it went? @justusandersson how do you determine if a brick wall is load-bearing using reinforcement drawings, how are any anchorings between brick and concrete slabs made? Or do you mean that only load-bearing parts appear in reinforcement drawings and that it should be possible to see any ties between brick and slabs?
How does one convey over fifty years of accumulated knowledge and experience? Tips are welcome. The truth is that there are probably no absolute rules. On a reinforcement drawing, load-bearing walls should be depicted, but it is not always accurate. Half-brick walls are usually not load-bearing, but you can't rely on that. If a concrete slab is laid over several walls, there is always top reinforcement over a load-bearing wall. This is to handle the negatively directed support moment that then arises and leads to tensile forces at the top of the concrete. One must also consider that older construction techniques were not always as stringent as today's.