I'm completely new to this forum, and this is also my first post.
My partner and I bought a house this summer and now it's time to plan for renovating the kitchen.
Since the kitchen is quite small, we were thinking of taking down a wall to a small adjacent bedroom to create a larger kitchen that suits us better.
Now the question is whether the wall we want to take down is load-bearing and how to best offset it.
Starting with a sketch of the house.
All the red is the original log house, which is one story with a basement and attic. The black is an extension and is one story with a basement and crawl space.
The black rectangle is the chimney.
The green in the picture is the wall I want to take down, the small section against the chimney consists of vertical planks and the rest is log. The wall is approximately 3.4 meters long.
The attic over where the kitchen will be is only going to be used for storing Christmas items, etc.
My questions are:
1: Is the wall load-bearing?
2: What is the best way to offset it? I don't want a glulam beam that divides the kitchen, so the offsetting should take place in the attic.
My idea was to put together two 45x220s to create a 90x220 beam and place one on each side of the chimney and out to the gable of the house, it will be placed on top of the floor structure and anchored with iron and through-bolts.
Cannot determine if it is load-bearing. When I've been unsure at home, I've taken a glulam beam and placed it on top of the attic floor structure and anchored it to each joist with angle brackets + suitable support points.
I would skip 45x220 and use glulam instead. A bit more expensive but much sturdier.
Thanks for the response. Sure, glulam is a bit more expensive, but as you said, it will make it sturdier.
My idea is to place a 90x225 or 90x270 glulam beam on each side of the chimney above the floor joists. The part of the house where the kitchen is located has a 6m span, and the attic floor consists of 6x6" timber placed with approximately 100cm on center.
Attached is a picture of how I've envisioned it:
The blue ones represent the glulam beams that are anchored into the outer wall by cutting a hole in the wall and inserting the beam.
At the other end, one of the beams will rest on the wall next to the bedroom, which is a wall of vertical planks and stands on a masonry wall in the basement.
The other beam will have a pillar consisting of two 45x145 pieces that are glued and screwed, then screwed into the chimney, and it will stand on the floor.
The idea was to first use 45x220, which were joined to make 90x220, and place one on each side of the chimney to distribute the load over multiple points. But you can manage with a beam where the other blue line is, the question is what dimension of the beam should I choose? I was mistaken about the wall towards the bedroom, it is not directly above the wall in the basement, so the question is if I can still use it as a support...
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