Hello!
We have a 50s house where some of the interior walls in the basement are plank walls. The others are masonry. We would like to tear down the plank walls and replace them with non-organic material. The walls consist of planks that are about 2 cm thick and 8 cm wide. Then nailed with wooden boards as the surface layer.
Based on the drawings and what we've read, it seems unlikely that they are load-bearing, but we're a bit uncertain. Should we still bring in a structural engineer to check them on-site?
Attached are the drawings and technical building description. It's the walls circled in red in the basement that we would like to demolish.
We have a 50s house where some of the interior walls in the basement are plank walls. The others are masonry. We would like to tear down the plank walls and replace them with non-organic material. The walls consist of planks that are about 2 cm thick and 8 cm wide. Then nailed with wooden boards as the surface layer.
Based on the drawings and what we've read, it seems unlikely that they are load-bearing, but we're a bit uncertain. Should we still bring in a structural engineer to check them on-site?
Attached are the drawings and technical building description. It's the walls circled in red in the basement that we would like to demolish.
The usual practice, as outlined in the sectional drawing, is that the wall under the roof ridge is load-bearing.