Hello, new user here and posting for the first time!
I have some questions about renovating 3 smaller bedrooms in my single-story house, built around 1973 (if I remember correctly). I would like to combine 2 bedrooms in the right corner of the floor plan, please see annotated image, by demolishing the marked wall. As a novice homeowner, I'm unsure if this wall is load-bearing. Additionally, the wall has both an electrical outlet and a cord drawn to the phone jack in the "middle bedroom," if that provides any clues.
I note that on the larger plan of the house, a wall has been marked as "modular wall" (marked with the number 14 and a small arrow) concerning the wall between "bedroom" and "living room" in the upper left corner of the plan, and this wall has been removed.
Please see attached images. Is the floor plan sufficient, or are additional details or images from inside the house needed?
Hello, A sectional drawing could probably answer this by showing the roof structure and the entire house in cross-section. I don't see any extra thick walls indoors either, so it is suspected that the roof is self-supporting, but not certain.
I contacted the municipality and received the following drawing, I believe it was used when applying for permission to install the wood-burning stove. They also had a drawing of the garage, but that's all. I guess the next step is to contact a structural engineer for an assessment of the wall?
There should be more drawings since the house is relatively new, however, they might not have been digitized so you may need to search in an archive. If you can get access to inspect how the roof beams are constructed, it might be possible to see if they are truss roof structures (W-shape) because if so, no interior walls should be load-bearing.
But having a building engineer who can check on-site is good.
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