Tear down a brick wall that is connected to the chimney?

[youask]

We have a brick wall that I believe is a support wall for the chimney. The house is in "mexisten" and all the walls inside are plaster/wood except for this one. But now we would like to move this to remodel the kitchen.

What do you think??

None of the other walls seem load-bearing, and the brick wall is along with the rafters.

The house is just over 11x12m

 

[roland53]

What you are describing sounds like a load-bearing wall i.e., it does not necessarily support the chimney, but the span and construction of the roof trusses may be such that they need support in the "middle".

It's impossible to determine without pictures and construction drawings.

Hire a structural engineer to check on-site and the drawing material.

 

[youask]

It is therefore facing the wrong way to be a heart wall. It is therefore in the same direction as a rafter.

 

[MaxPax]

The trusses can hardly be supported in the middle by a wall that runs along them. In that case, a truss that gets support the entire length of the wall...

 

[roland53]

As mentioned, a construction drawing of the house would have made things easier.

Note that the original poster specified a span of 11 or 12 m (it's not exactly clear which for the roof truss).

Normally, a small house would be around 8 m wide.

I could imagine there being some beam resting on the wall across the roof trusses, but the original poster's information is too limited.

 

[youask]

Will arrange pictures of the house and tokstolar and drawing. The house was built in 1968, renovated in 1978.

 

[youask]

Drawing. Wall and chimney marked

 

[roland53]

Yes, it's a floor plan. There should be a construction drawing where the roof trusses are also included?

 

[youask]

Unfortunately, we don't have one of those on the house. Neither before nor after the renovation in 1978. However, there is one on the detached garage, but that hardly helps

 

[sir_daniel]

Can you go up to the attic and try to measure the cc distance or just estimate the rafters so we can draw them in?

 

[youask]

I have just torn down a wasp's nest and I'm waiting for them to calm down a bit here is a picture from outside

 

[youask]

And here is the wall in question. The chimney is between the stove and the wall, you could say. And the wall we want to tear down/move is behind the stove/sink.

 

[youask]

950x180 with cc measurements 120 are the trusses.

 

[youask]

Hoho? Any ideas?

 

[roland53]

Difficult to have an opinion from the material you presented.

You stated the house's dimensions as 11x12 m. This essentially means a square house.

In the pictures, I think it looks like a rectangular house, e.g., 8x12 m, but you know best yourself as you live in the house. ?

You would probably do best to hire a structural engineer who can on-site assess the suitability of tearing down the wall.

Don't you have anyone in your circle of acquaintances who can make an initial assessment and possibly advise you on whether you should proceed and hire a structural engineer to calculate the roof truss, snow loads, and the wall's current function?