Hello!
I have a little dilemma and would need the forum's help to figure out what I can do.
I'm going to renovate the kitchen, and this work involves removing a wall between the dining room and kitchen (marked in red on the picture).
I have measured and found that the wall is 24 cm thick (brick/stone/concrete). And it is reportedly load-bearing and will require an offset with a beam.
Today, the kitchen is 349 cm in length, and if I calculate that I can utilize the "space" that remains when the wall is removed, I get 373 cm for the kitchen.
With these enormously valuable 24 cm, I get exactly the layout I want in the kitchen (attached image from IKEA's planning tool). The total length of the kitchen is 370 cm on that wall.
But, and it's a big BUT (as the Let's Dance guy would say), this requires that I don't have a pillar by the outer wall where the wall is being demolished.
Is it possible to offset the wall with a beam without a pillar in some way?
Having a pillar on the opposite side (chimney breast) is not a problem. The outer wall is also stone (living in a stone house from 1938) if that helps.
Disclaimer: I will not do the work myself but hire professionals to do it, I just need to know if it is possible to do as I planned for planning purposes.
I have a little dilemma and would need the forum's help to figure out what I can do.
I'm going to renovate the kitchen, and this work involves removing a wall between the dining room and kitchen (marked in red on the picture).
I have measured and found that the wall is 24 cm thick (brick/stone/concrete). And it is reportedly load-bearing and will require an offset with a beam.
Today, the kitchen is 349 cm in length, and if I calculate that I can utilize the "space" that remains when the wall is removed, I get 373 cm for the kitchen.
With these enormously valuable 24 cm, I get exactly the layout I want in the kitchen (attached image from IKEA's planning tool). The total length of the kitchen is 370 cm on that wall.
But, and it's a big BUT (as the Let's Dance guy would say), this requires that I don't have a pillar by the outer wall where the wall is being demolished.
Is it possible to offset the wall with a beam without a pillar in some way?
Having a pillar on the opposite side (chimney breast) is not a problem. The outer wall is also stone (living in a stone house from 1938) if that helps.
Disclaimer: I will not do the work myself but hire professionals to do it, I just need to know if it is possible to do as I planned for planning purposes.
