We are considering opening up the floor plan in our villa to get more use out of the fireplace located in one corner of the house.
We received drawings when we bought the house; can you tell from them what is load-bearing or not?
The drawing is a bit different from how it is now. The yellow crosses are doorways that are instead where I've drawn green. I don't know if this was done by previous owners or if it was just built differently from the drawings.
What we are wondering is the area circled in red. We are considering opening up a bit there. Either to reinstate the openings as they are on the drawing, or alternatively open up more and remove the entire section down to the right in the circle. Do you think this would be feasible?
Is that a prefab house/Mockfjärdshus?
If you keep flipping through the book you might have, it explains which walls are load-bearing. I have a complete binder but not with me right now, I can try to check it for you.
If there have been openings there before, you can assume it's been offset.
If you want to open new sections, I suggest calculating the load-bearing capacity on a glulam beam.
In my opinion and limited experience, the central wall is always load-bearing.
If you keep flipping through the book you might have, it explains which walls are load-bearing. I have a complete binder but not with me right now, I can try to check it for you.
If there have been openings there before, you can assume it's been offset.
If you want to open new sections, I suggest calculating the load-bearing capacity on a glulam beam.
In my opinion and limited experience, the central wall is always load-bearing.
Please attach section and truss drawings.
Unfortunately, I have no idea if it is a prefab house/Mockfjärdshus. I don't have a book either.michfris said:
The tricky part is that I don't know if it has been changed over the years or if it was from the start. The people who built the house had a paint and wallpaper shop here in the village, and all the rooms are still decorated with wallpaper from them. It really feels like it's original, which is why I'm wondering if it was changed already during construction. But it was built in the '50s, so many years where it could have been altered.
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Doesn't exactly look like a catalog house. If there are no drawings, the appearance of the trusses probably tells a lot. If they are flimsy, I think only the heart wall in each room plays any significant role.