I am moving a door, see image, so the entrance is in the hallway and the adjacent room doesn't have to be a passage room. I cut it open and this is what it looks like; the house is from 1909 and almost all the walls seem to be solid with boards. In the exterior walls, they are horizontally laid but here they are "smaller" planks and vertical. In the attic above, there is a beam, but it has been cut off long ago in the middle of the house to make room for the chimney, and I therefore don't think it carries much of the roof. Or am I wrong? Grateful for answers and opinions.
Impossible to know with the info we have. Pictures of the attic would help a lot
There is a ridge above the wall which I believe should have a holding function. However, it was cut when the passage for the kitchen fan and ventilation was made, so the holding function is probably gone. No bracing goes from the ridge up to the roof. See pictures.
this is how it should be, on top of the standing "logs" there should also be a horizontal one.
If there's only an attic above, it should work
Opened on the other side and there are horizontal logs. There is a horizontal one above these (in the attic) but nothing else but attic. Am I understanding you correctly that it's possible to install a door?
