Well, here's the situation. I'm looking at a typical 1950s house with a full concrete basement and the obligatory garage in one corner of the basement. The garage is, of course, quite small for a man with big plans My fantasy is to expand this garage room by demolishing one of the longitudinal walls and simply moving it a bit, or even better, turning half of the basement into a garage/mancave as it's called nowadays. I simply need space. Is this even conceivable from a construction point of view or a huge project with reinforcement beams?
Yeah, this is roughly what it looks like.
It's the red-orange wall that I thought could be "knocked out," and the question is how to replace it in a smart way since it likely has a load-bearing function. Come up with suggestions! Preferably, a large part of the basement would be a garage, or whatever you want to call it - hobby space. The superstructure is made of wood as it was done back then. The concrete in the ceiling and walls looks really solid, so whoever built it must have had plenty of time and resources!
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I would guess that the wall is load-bearing because otherwise, the span of the concrete ceiling would be significantly longer and would require much stronger reinforcement.
You might be able to replace it with a strong beam (that takes height) or a row of columns so you can move freely between them.
First, you need to find out what material the wall is made of. If it's a reinforced concrete wall, you can forget the whole project because the wall's and the vault's reinforcements are probably connected. However, if the wall is made of hollow concrete blocks, which I believe was most common in the 1950s, you can replace the wall with a beam, preferably made of steel to reduce the construction height. Such a beam can rest on a steel column at each end. I assume the beam span will be at most 5 meters. You need to hire a structural engineering firm to calculate the dimensions of the steel and to check that the foundation under the columns (probably a reinforced concrete footing) can withstand the point loads that occur.
Thank you for the wise words. It could very well be concrete hole brick, and that the entire basement is built with this except for the vault/ceiling then. My usual common sense tells me that the wall is probably very load-bearing considering the large opening for the garage door. I made a small sketch of how I imagined it could be done.
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My fantasy is to expand this garage room by demolishing one of the longitudinal walls and simply moving it a bit, or even better, turning half of the basement into a garage/mancave as it's called nowadays. I simply need space. Is this even conceivable from a construction point of view or a huge project with reinforcement beams?
