Is there anyone here who can help me with a bit of a dilemma? We have a wall we want to get rid of, but I'm unsure if it's load-bearing or not. It appears on one drawing of the house, but not on another. Its location also makes it seem not very load-bearing, but the material in it makes me wonder still. There's some kind of "stone" material in it. Additionally, the ceiling is so low that the door frame goes all the way up to the ceiling above the door...
In the pictures below, you can see the room(s) on the two drawings I have. The wall I want to remove is circled in blue.
So, can I bring out the big sledgehammer, or should I leave it alone?
# bror
In the pictures below, you can see the room(s) on the two drawings I have. The wall I want to remove is circled in blue.
So, can I bring out the big sledgehammer, or should I leave it alone?
# bror
The circled blue wall segment on the electrical drawing of the basement is load-bearing. The other drawing shows how the slab (made of concrete) above the basement level is reinforced. As you can see from the lines on that drawing, the irons with their ends rest on the wall you want to remove. They are cut straight off (there should actually be a small short line at the end at a 45-degree angle), which means they are deformed bars of strength class KS40 or better. (If they were smooth bars, they would have a small curl over the wall you want to remove.) The house was likely not built earlier than 1950.
If you remove the wall, you risk collapsing the concrete slab. The fact that the door goes up to the ceiling only indicates that the basement height is low, and extra iron has been placed over the doorway on the bottom side of the slab parallel to the wall you want to remove, with the iron from adjacent slabs resting on it.
Correction:
My mistake. It is the next wall that is load-bearing for the slab. The circled blue wall is not load-bearing and can be removed.
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If you remove the wall, you risk collapsing the concrete slab. The fact that the door goes up to the ceiling only indicates that the basement height is low, and extra iron has been placed over the doorway on the bottom side of the slab parallel to the wall you want to remove, with the iron from adjacent slabs resting on it.
Correction:
My mistake. It is the next wall that is load-bearing for the slab. The circled blue wall is not load-bearing and can be removed.
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It's probably not safe. It can fall on you. There might also be electrical wires in it. Otherwise, there shouldn't be any danger.'brorzan said:
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