We have bought a house and like so many others, we are also going to renovate the kitchen!
We won't have access to drawings other than these until April 5th.
But so that we can at least do some planning, I'm wondering if anyone can say if the wall between the kitchen and dining room is load-bearing. We would like to be able to remove "the 3 small pieces", of which only half of the 3rd piece will be removed, the part that is towards the living room.
From the gable to where we want to remove is 398cm.
Hope someone can at least give some tips and ideas.
Best regards, Madelene
You can't ask the sellers for the drawings earlier?
The municipality should have the building permit drawings that you can request. Among them, there should be a section where you can discern if it is a load-bearing inner wall.
The municipality should have the building permit drawings that you can request. Among them, there should be a section where you can discern if it is a load-bearing inner wall.
The drawing as such is worthless because it is a broker's drawing. I am still quite sure that it is a load-bearing wall. It is a relatively newly built house in 1.5 floors, anything else would surprise me. For an accurate calculation, a correct sectional drawing is required, among other things, to assess the construction of the roof trusses and how the roof loads are transferred to the foundation. At a minimum, you need a 4-meter long glulam beam with dimensions 90x360. Probably two glulam pillars with dimensions 90x90 are also needed. At this stage, it is impossible to say if an even stronger beam is required. The 90x360 beam can be replaced with a beam with dimensions 165x270, for example, if you want to reduce the height. I assume this was the type of information you needed?