Hello!
How do you think one should best support this 4m long wall?
How large a beam would be "overkill"?
I think a glued-laminated beam might be too high due to low ceiling height, 2.30m, so leaning towards a steel beam.
Conditions:
Timbered 18th-century house with 2 floors.
4m log wall between kitchen and hall to be removed on the ground floor towards the short side of the house.
Bedroom above the kitchen, upper hall above the hall.
Staircase in the corner on the left in the hall up to the upper floor, so no floor there.
It's the front door you see through the opening.
Limited ceiling height, so a glued-laminated beam might be too high, maybe an I-beam?
The kitchen is 3.5m deep.
Bearing studs between floors run in the same direction as the light fixture on the ceiling.
Don't know if the timber frame continues all the way up to the roof trusses through the second floor.
