Hi!
I am going to create a doorway in one of the house's walls, see attached pdf. As I see it, it is not a load-bearing wall, so it should be fine, does anyone disagree?
The roof truss has plenty of support from the outer wall and the "hjärtvägg" which I have previously offset.
Regards,
Mats
I am going to create a doorway in one of the house's walls, see attached pdf. As I see it, it is not a load-bearing wall, so it should be fine, does anyone disagree?
The roof truss has plenty of support from the outer wall and the "hjärtvägg" which I have previously offset.
Regards,
Mats
You need to provide more information about the house if you want to get any evaluations. Are the walls 1-brick thick walls?
The outer walls are made of lightweight concrete/air gap/brick, the heart wall, and other inner walls are single brick. The interior wall that I am now going to make a hole in is difficult to measure the thickness of because there is no hole in it yet, but if I measure the outer wall, I get a maximum of 17-18 cm. That's not a double brick wall, so I guess it's also single brick plus two substantial layers of plaster.
I would have preferred a complete and dimensioned drawing, but I don't think the current wall is load-bearing. A half-brick wall is usually about 15 cm. 1.5 plaster + 12 brick + 1.5 plaster. It can certainly be 16-17 if the mason has been generous with the plaster. Even an opening in a non-load-bearing masonry wall requires some form of support. Normally, brick lintels are used during construction. When creating an opening in an existing wall, it is easiest to use some form of simple steel beam, such as U, L, or square profiles.
