Hello, after much reading here on the forum about load-bearing walls, I also have to post a thread myself.

The house is a wooden house built in 1989 by Gullringshus, the roof trusses seem to be trusses.
We would like to tear down the wall between the kitchen and the living room.

Is this wall load-bearing or not? I have been thinking about this for a long time now and it is a plaster wall, but I am unsure about what might be hiding inside.

Attached is a blueprint of the house, and I have marked the wall we want to tear down.

Grateful for all the help I can get :)
 
  • Floor plan with a highlighted wall between the kitchen and living room, showing house elevations and roof truss design, house built by Gullringshus in 1989.
Hopefully, there is someone more experienced who can help you with this. Personally, I'm unsure because the building has a hipped roof, and there are probably many ways to construct one.

I would assume that the truss in the section is self-supporting. Is it possible to get up to the attic and take pictures?
 
The most likely scenario is that the trusses supporting the hip roof on the gables are also of the truss type. If that is the case, the red-marked wall is not load-bearing. The simplest way to confirm this is to go up to the attic and photograph the trusses on the affected gable.
 
Thanks for the responses, took some pictures of the rafters. It's hard to get good pictures but I hope you can see how the rafters are constructed.
What do you think?
 
  • Attic space showing wooden rafters and insulation, with wires and cables hanging from the beams.
  • Roof trusses inside an attic with wooden beams, insulation, and ventilation ducts visible.
  • Wooden roof trusses in an attic space, with insulation material on the floor, showing construction details.
It looks as it should, i.e., trusses also under the hip roof, but with different measurements. This means that no partition walls are load-bearing.
 
J justusandersson said:
It looks as it should, i.e., trusses also under the ridge, but with different dimensions. This means that no partition walls are load-bearing.
Big thanks for the help! Maybe the crowbar and sledgehammer will come out this week already.
 
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