Oh, it looked like my house but not quite.
Here it is.
I know that we cannot remove any more of the wall between the dining room and the living room. In the bedroom, there is a beam in the ceiling leading to the small nook behind the toilet. How sustainable it is, I don't know, since it was like that when we moved in. Then again, we have more walls on that side because our stairs are there.
Here it is.
I know that we cannot remove any more of the wall between the dining room and the living room. In the bedroom, there is a beam in the ceiling leading to the small nook behind the toilet. How sustainable it is, I don't know, since it was like that when we moved in. Then again, we have more walls on that side because our stairs are there.
Crickster: What type of floor is it? Wood or concrete?
AnneF: If the outer wall to the left of the wall you want to remove is a gable wall, the wall is most likely a load-bearing wall for the upper floor joists. This means that the floor joists are overlapped over this wall. If you then remove the wall beneath, the floor will sag. A glulam beam as a replacement for the wall in such a case works perfectly fine. In the opening that is there now, do you have anything left of the wall above?
AnneF: If the outer wall to the left of the wall you want to remove is a gable wall, the wall is most likely a load-bearing wall for the upper floor joists. This means that the floor joists are overlapped over this wall. If you then remove the wall beneath, the floor will sag. A glulam beam as a replacement for the wall in such a case works perfectly fine. In the opening that is there now, do you have anything left of the wall above?
I only included the picture to show our house. It is correct that the right and left are the gables. The large openings are arches. I was told we couldn't tear down the wall when my dad misunderstood me. We are going to tear down the wall between the dining room and the kitchen, not the part attached to the chimney, but the arch and the last 62cm section. It feels like it's the only wall in our entire house that can even be touched.
Crickster: If both the walls and floors are concrete, most likely all the walls are load-bearing. However, the marked wall can be replaced with a steel beam of appropriate dimension. Since you seem to have a chimney in one end of the wall, perhaps you have a basement underneath? Is there a basement wall under the current wall? If there is no matching wall underneath, the wall is a one-story wall beam, and it becomes more complicated...
I recommend you contact a structural engineer!
I recommend you contact a structural engineer!