Hello!
I'm helping a friend with some renovations in their house, and they really want to move a doorway in the basement a meter or so along the same wall. See picture.
The red marking is where the door is currently located, and the yellow marking is where they want the door to be.
However, we're a bit unsure if it's feasible considering that this wall seems to be the old exterior wall in the basement from many years back (storage/room in the basement and two rooms on the upper floor added around the 70s).
The plan is to close off the old door first, brick it up with something like aerated concrete or leca blocks, and then create a new opening that's about 100-120 cm wide.
What do you think? This wall shouldn't be a load-bearing structure, or are we thinking wrong?
I'm helping a friend with some renovations in their house, and they really want to move a doorway in the basement a meter or so along the same wall. See picture.
The red marking is where the door is currently located, and the yellow marking is where they want the door to be.
However, we're a bit unsure if it's feasible considering that this wall seems to be the old exterior wall in the basement from many years back (storage/room in the basement and two rooms on the upper floor added around the 70s).
The plan is to close off the old door first, brick it up with something like aerated concrete or leca blocks, and then create a new opening that's about 100-120 cm wide.
What do you think? This wall shouldn't be a load-bearing structure, or are we thinking wrong?
Well... It seems likely that the beams in the intermediate floor run from the wall to the outer wall there in the basement. Additionally, you have walls on the floor that seem to stand on this basement wall. I would probably assume that you might have beams resting on the wall where you plan to make a hole.
Whether it needs to be reinforced depends a bit on how it's constructed.
Whether it needs to be reinforced depends a bit on how it's constructed.
However, we are not planning to make an opening all the way up. There will probably be about 15-20 cm of the wall left at the top edge. I believe this wall isn't a load-bearing construction. The beams go in the "same" direction as this wall, so it may be as you say that a beam could be resting on this wall, but it shouldn't affect a new opening of about 100-120 cm if we close the old one and reinforce the old opening.H hempularen said:
It probably depends on what material the wall is made of, and where in the opening the load might occur. The remaining 15 - 20 cm might just barely be enough to support the weight of the material itself.
It seems to be hollow brick. The current opening does not appear to be reinforced with anything; it's just a large hole straight through the wall, even up to the ceiling. (You can see the boards nailed to the joists in the current opening, and it's probably been like that for at least 40 years.)H hempularen said: