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[ankan678]

Hello. I'll keep it short...

Old house with slanted ceilings in rooms on the upper floor, where they made straight walls halfway up to create storage space along the rooms. Now a wall needs to be removed, and there's a long ventilation pipe made of eternit that has to be taken out, but I need to cut it. Should I saw it or break it off? I was thinking of sawing it, but I don't know which blade to use in the reciprocating saw if I do. Or should I smash it with a hammer? I'm not sure how hard it is and which method causes more dust.

 

[Staffans2000]

Bank you.

 

[Violina]

Isn't the wall you're removing there to brace the rafters?

 

[ankan678]

I don't think it's load-bearing, it's just a big and a small room on the floor. The big one has a slanted ceiling all the way down to the floor. I'll see if I can upload a couple of pictures...

 

[Violina]

I don't think it's load-bearing, it's just a big and a small room on the floor. The big one has a sloping ceiling all the way down to the floor. I'll see if I can get a couple of pictures up...

Check the construction drawings from when the house was built. If the walls are there, it's not certain that you can just remove them.

In my house, there are standing plank walls between living space and storage spaces, and they definitely serve a purpose for the roof trusses.

 

[GoC]

But those walls aren't just to be removed.
As previously written, those walls often have a load-bearing function in the trusses.

 

[öringen]

If you want it to create a little less dust, you should probably break it instead of sawing. You can also wrap a wet sheet or something similar around the entire pipe before you cut it.

 

[ankan678]

Thanks, I'll probably break it then. Good tip with the wet sheet so you don't inhale asbestos..

 

[ankan678]

an image is room next to, and the other image is that wall. about 2 meters long. however, there will still be 1 meter of wall left between the rooms. no drawings available. house age unknown seems to be just wall board and planks, no studs in the wall.

 

[ankan678]

Hello again. I'm considering removing part of the wall on the kattvind, and many say it might be load-bearing, so I have a few questions. The house is about 10 meters. The upper floor has two rooms, one is 7 meters and the small one is 3 meters. The large room has a sloped ceiling going down, maybe 50 cm of straight wall. And the small one has about 1.5m of straight wall. Both kattvind have small doors and are used as storage. The wall I want to take down is about 2 meters. 1 meter will remain as it is.
Question 1. The wall consists of tongue and groove boards standing vertically at 34mm, can this be load-bearing?

 

[ankan678]

Is built like this