Load-bearing wall or not? Pictures available

[Miki_s]

Any knowledgeable carpenter who knows if this wall is load-bearing or not? I believe that the chimney stack itself supports this half of the house. The studs are 30x60mm. Thanks in advance!

 

[Miki_s]

Nobody knows?

 

[JKrister]

It is impossible to answer based on the pictures. How is the wall positioned in the house? How is the bjälklag constructed?

 

[Kallebo]

It is usually easiest to see if you attach a floor plan. 30x60 sounds weak in a load-bearing wall.. do the trusses go along or perpendicular to the wall?

 

[Miki_s]

It goes with the wall. Will attach a couple of photos from the attic and floor plan










If you look at the photos from the attic, it seems to be reinforced over the living room considering that it is such a large area? Or am I thinking wrong?

 

[Miki_s]

It's the wall that goes between the kitchen and living room anyway

 

[Finndjävel]

Who put the poles in the attic and what is their purpose?

 

[Miki_s]

I think they were included in the drawing, reinforcement?

 

[f91jsw]

You have truss rafters, meaning the walls underneath are not load-bearing. The posts in the attic beneath the ridge have no load-bearing function for the roof structure. Either someone placed them there against better judgment or their purpose is to reinforce the attic floor so that it can be used as a floor.

 

[Miki_s]

Okay, so you mean that none of the walls are load-bearing?:S if you look in the attic, one of the roof trusses is located right above the wall I'm thinking of tearing down, not sure if that's by chance?

 

[Miki_s]

Or now that I looked a little more closely, it doesn't do that but is about 15-20cm away

 

[Anna_H]

The kitchen wall is very likely not load-bearing at all.

If any wall is load-bearing, it's the one running along the house, perpendicular to the roof trusses (as support in the middle).

Is there any "edge" (also known as "gubbe") in the ceiling of the living room, in the same place as the wall in the basement? If so, it indicates that the heart wall is load-bearing, but the load-distributing beam can also be inside the ceiling, so the absence of it is no guarantee.

 

[Miki_s]

Okay thanks! I won't know until I've torn down the ceiling too, it's a lowered ceiling in the living room with studs and drywall I'll have to tear down the wall and hope for the best everyone I've asked says it shouldn't be load-bearing, which I also thought.

 

[f91jsw]

If any wall is load-bearing, it is the one that runs along the house across the roof trusses (as support in the middle).

Since they are truss roof trusses, the partition wall cannot be load-bearing. There is no point directly under a truss roof truss that can support a load.