Do you dare to cut into this?

[MrWhatever]

Hey,

I'm planning to enlarge the opening to the kitchen.

This is how it looks from the inside after I removed the panel that was on the beams. Looking at the drawing dated 1969, there's no wall there. But, well, the house was built in the 1800s and you never know.



Here is a picture looking into the kitchen area.



I have the following equipment:

Drill / Screwdriver
Many different tools such as hammers, chisels, and other small items
Black & Decker jigsaw (what blade is recommended?)
Money

I want to raise the entrance in the fastest and cheapest way.

Regards

 

[MrWhatever]

is there anyone out there who knows?

Best regards

 

[Nimajneb]

I think that I and many others find it difficult to interpret the 1st image and how it is connected to the 2nd image.
Also difficult to get a sense of the dimensions of the timber, (the beams)

 

[MrWhatever]

The first picture is taken from the doorway in the kitchen, kneeling and photographing upwards at about the brownish door seen in image 2.
The second picture is the outside of the wall taken from the living room directly in front. The beams are about 10 cm x 10 cm and 130 cm long (the ones that lie crosswise).

 

[estwing]

I have more or less torn down my entire house and added new beams, etc.
but your picture is weird, I can't quite make it out.
I understand that you want to make the opening bigger.
does this gägg follow the same line as the ridge of the house???
if it does, it is load-bearing.
but everything can be fixed with an H-beam, etc.

regards
carpenter estwing

 

[Nimajneb]

you might want to add some more pictures but don't take them from strange angled perspectives. It's important, for example, how the attachment to the wall looks today for your "stolpar".

 

[MrWhatever]

The beams are not attached to the wall, but come down from the ceiling/attic. I live at the top of a house built sometime in the 1870s. On the latest drawing from 1969, there is no wall there. Personally, I don't think it's difficult to interpret the images.

One picture is taken from outside the kitchen area (demolished kitchen) and one picture is taken from inside the kitchen area with the camera angled upwards as the ceiling height is 4 meters.

 

[MrWhatever]

I mean, I've more or less torn down my entire house and installed new beams, etc.
But I mean, your picture is strange. I can't make sense of it.
I understand that you want to make the opening larger.,
Does this joist follow the same line as the ridge of the house???
If it does, it's load-bearing.
But everything can be fixed with an H-beam, etc.

Regards,
Carpenter estwing

Yes, the wall follows the same line as the ridge of the house, but the house is about 100 m long, so I highly doubt that these joists, which aren't even attached to the wall, are dangerous to remove. However, on each side of the opening, there are load-bearing walls that are 30 cm thick and are marked as load-bearing on the plans.