Soon taking over a house from 1958 built in lightweight concrete and want to start renovating it immediately. I would like your help to identify which walls in the attached plan are load-bearing.
Can anyone say with certainty which ones are load-bearing?
Since the house has a truss roof, none of the internal walls were probably initially considered load-bearing. Whether this is still the case today depends on where the house is located. In 1958, assumptions about snow load were significantly lower in many parts of Sweden. Comparing the dimensions of the trusses' upper and lower chords (50x150) with the Wood Guide's recommendations for W-trusses with a 27-degree pitch and a 9-meter span, it shows that even in snow zone 2 (which covers large parts of southern Sweden except Skåne), these should be 45x195 and 45x170 mm respectively. Only in snow zone 1 (western Skåne) do the house's trusses suffice in that regard. To be on the safe side, one should therefore keep an internal wall in the vertical direction as shown in the drawing. Which ones don't matter that much, but I would opt for those between the bedroom and living room, hall and living room, and kitchen and bedroom 1.
A thousand thanks for your very comprehensive response! I can only thank you greatly! Thank you for the house being located in southern Skåne! //Martin
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