Do you think the whole wall is load-bearing then? Because if you look at the wall section to the left of the opening, which connects to the exterior wall, there's neither a top beam nor full-length vertical studs. Could it be that only the wardrobe modules are load-bearing?J justusandersson said:
We should then be able to trim out some of the surrounding modules and replace the 2 short lintels with a long one, supported at the ends and in the middle, so that we have two openings of 76cm instead of 60cm as they are today.
I can more or less guarantee that there is a roof truss directly above between the frames. I have measured and assume that you also have 1200 mm between the roof trusses? That doesn't necessarily mean that the "pillar" bears a point load. The entire wall is likely load-bearing.
The loads on the wall appear as point loads directly under each respective truss, but the wall must be viewed as a whole, where all parts help to brace each other.
What does it look like on the left side of the rule that is whole there and what are the measurements for it, I think it might switch above so you get your wardrobes
The entire house is assembled from wall sections, somewhat like lego. What holds the sections together is a plank below and a plank above. As we can now establish, there are two types of sections: load-bearing and non-load-bearing. To the left of the closet, between the closet and the outer wall, there is a non-load-bearing section. These consist of compartments, 2x5 units. Where the horizontal beams go all the way through, and the vertical ones are divided. If you zoom in on the left beam, you see a stripe of this construction next to the complete vertical beam.
All the beams are 70x70, except for the top beam in the load-bearing sections which is 70x200.
All the beams are 70x70, except for the top beam in the load-bearing sections which is 70x200.
Why not switch on the inside? It will be a wardrobe after all. Install an oversized glulam beam and then posts for it to rest on. What kind of wardrobe solution do you want to fit, by the way?
Some type of support should be possible... I'm thinking of regular Ikea frames 2x75. That way, we can almost utilize the entire space and install drawers, which we couldn't do before. The height we can fit depends on how we solve it with support. If it wasn't load-bearing, we could have fit the tall ones at 236. The lower ones are around 200 and fit under a beam. The ceiling height is 245.Fulkemisten said:
If you replace the 70x200 beam with a glulam one measuring 90x180, they should have similar properties, you might fit in the taller wardrobes.
One idea might be to keep the "post" if possible, but perhaps replace it with a 90x90 glulam? If you still have space for 2 x 75 in that case, it's possible to keep the overhead bridging quite low so that you can fit the taller wardrobes. By the way, in your sectional drawing, it looks like you have 250 cm in ceiling height. In my place, they had lowered the ceilings by 5-7 cm in certain areas for unclear reasons in the 60s-70s. Check if you don't have 250 ceiling height in the wardrobe; if so, then the matter is settled.