Load-bearing wall?

[martinmp777]

Hi! I am new here on the forum and have bought a house where my partner and I are planning to do some renovations on the upper floor this winter.

We are considering how to approach the room we intend to use as a bedroom. We have some different ideas, including tearing down the wall to a walk-in closet to make the room larger, but the question is, is the wall load-bearing?

What do you think, is the wall that is circled load-bearing or not?
The blue line is a wall we plan to put up, in which case the entire wall won't be taken down.

The house is made of timber and built in 1920. The wall we plan to take down is also timber.

 

[pjapen]

more info needed, see nothing circled, reference to the room we thought of making into a bedroom requires me to read your mind. upstairs? see basement and ground floor. is there also an upstairs?

 

[martinmp777]

Oops, it was really bad of me not to check more carefully which pictures I uploaded!!

Here are the correct pictures of the upstairs, the first picture where we plan to have the bedroom, the circled wall is the one we want to tear down, not necessarily the whole thing, it may be enough up to the blue line

 

[martinmp777]

Anyone have any thoughts?
I have tried to read up and it sounds like all the log walls in a log house are load-bearing/part of the structure.
Is it a structural engineer that I should talk to?

 

[haavard]

I guess it's not load-bearing. It's probably a wall between a room and the attic space? Hard to know without either facade drawings or a photo of the wall. If it were load-bearing, it should have continued through the hall. (But it might have been torn down unnecessarily earlier.)

 

[martinmp777]

The wall is clad on both sides with panels, the side facing the room is wallpapered and we don't want to tear it down if it turns out we can't remove the wall.

The facade is additionally insulated and has a board facade so we can't see how it looks there either and unfortunately I don't have a facade drawing.

 

[Anna_H]

There is no other way to find out than to open the wall, do it from inside KLK where you can easily put on a board and paint a little if it turns out to reveal load-bearing studs. And in that case, check how it looks in the ceiling in the hallway, if it needs to be reinforced there (see haavards answer).