Hello. We are going to renovate our kitchen and we want to connect the hallway with the kitchen. We were thinking of making a larger opening in a wall but do not know if it is load-bearing. The opening is 70 cm today. We would like to make it 180 cm wide. The pictures are a bit poor as the drawings are old. Red marking indicates the intended demolition.
It is most likely load-bearing. Feel free to rotate the basement floor plan to make it a bit easier to see on the drawings
Hi. Thanks for the reply. I arranged the images as they are in reality. So all the images are oriented in the same cardinal direction. Hence my nice arrows on the sides . If I arrange the basement floor image as drawn, the floor plan doesn't match because the garage is under the kitchen. I hope you understand .
Thank you for all the answers. Indeed, the wall is load-bearing. We have contacted a construction company that will come and demolish and reinforce with glulam beam.
Is there someone at the company who is a structural engineer, or do you need to bring someone in to size the beam, etc.?
Carpenters and the like usually do not have sufficient knowledge for that.
When interfering with load-bearing structures, you must make a building notification to the municipality.
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