This is my first post in the forum but I have been following it for a long time. We recently bought an apartment that we will renovate over the summer (and probably some during the fall). We plan to move the kitchen to the inner hallway and therefore intend to take down two walls. We are quite sure that one of them is load-bearing, so we will contact someone to produce construction drawings to have it reinforced, but we would like input on whether the other one might also be load-bearing.
In the drawing "floor plan 1-4 with wall markings," I have marked both walls. We are mainly wondering about V2 and whether it is load-bearing or not. Also uploading construction drawings for the house. The building is from 1927 and the apartment is on the 3rd floor.
If anyone has suggestions for someone who can produce construction drawings, we would gladly receive them. Found some sites on the internet with a fixed price, but 10,000 kr per wall seems excessive. The apartment is in Stockholm, but I've understood that the designer doesn't visit the apartment to make the calculations.
Wall 2 is not load-bearing. It doesn't seem like you can make the opening in wall 1 much wider unless the fireplaces with chimneys have already been taken down on all floors (or at least the floors above you). I don't think 10,000 kronor is expensive, especially considering what the project will cost overall, but it's up to you. What does the board say?
The idea is to make the opening approximately 650 mm larger (up to the outer edge of the stove) according to the picture here. B3 is the existing opening and N1 is the desired opening. Could that be a problem?
I’ve had brief contact with the board but not directly on this issue. They seem to be reasonable representatives, but I want to gather all the documentation first to present it (no one else has previously taken down this wall, at least not filed a construction notification for it). If there is a way to relieve the wall and it doesn't have any negative effects in terms of structural integrity or costs, the board doesn't have much to say. They might indeed refrain from giving approval, but after a (long) wait in the rent tribunal, approval would most likely be obtained.
Okay, I've seen people paying around 5,000 - 7,000 SEK to get construction drawings for single walls. No project is exactly like another, of course, but I think this isn't bigger than anything else. With all the increased material costs, it's important to keep down the costs that can be kept down, even if 3,000 SEK might not be much when the project itself is around 300,000 SEK.
