Hey there! I'm in the initial stages of starting a renovation of our basement. My question is whether all the "thick" interior walls are actually load-bearing? It might be hard to tell just from a drawing like this. How else can you find out? A hand-drawn basement floor plan with labeled rooms: hobby room, garage, laundry, drying room, and sauna, used for renovation planning. Floor plan sketch of a house's ground floor with labeled rooms including vardagsrum, kök, and sovrum. Discussion on whether thick walls are load-bearing.
 
One way is to examine what material they are made of. I guess that all the thick basement walls consist of masonry concrete hollow blocks, which you can consider load-bearing. Thinner walls of, for example, half-brick (12 cm + plaster on both sides) or light concrete are certainly not load-bearing. The type of floor structure between the basement and the ground floor is also important for the assessment. If it consists of reinforced concrete, which can be suspected in this case, you can exclude all thinner variants. The walls between the garage and the pantry are probably not load-bearing.
 
Åsa Lund
However, the walls against the garage should remain as a fire compartment boundary.
 
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