Hello
I'm in the process of laying parquet on the ground floor. It will be a piece without seams, about 60 m2. I've laid 40 m2 in the living room and have now reached the boundary between the dining room/kitchen. It's the only load-bearing so-called "heart wall" in the house, and currently, it's partially opened 2/3 of the way, with the last part being a bar counter.
Now we want to remove the bar part as well so that the wall disappears completely and I can continue laying the floor without a seam. It's not very high to the ceiling, about 235 cm, so I don't see it as a first option to install a laminated beam; it protrudes too much.
My colleague and I were pondering whether it would be possible to use a Kerto beam in the dimension 45x400x3600, which could be conveniently placed in the middle of a dividing wall on the upper floor, so that it rests on the exterior wall and the heart wall at the other end, and attach it with some form of angle/column iron in the intermediate joist, which consists of 2"x8".
Now, I live in Kiruna, and there is no dealer for Kerto here, so would it be possible to use 2 laminated beams 42x220x3600 standing on top of each other, glued and screwed with plywood from one side instead?
The partition wall on the upper floor has 45mm studs, hence the maximum 45mm width of the beam, possibly a 56x270x3600 as I have double boards on both sides, but preferably a 45.
This would make the construction completely invisible, which would be great.
It's a bit difficult to explain everything precisely, but I'll try:
Above the wall we want to remove, there are 2 rooms, together about 20 m2, and the span downstairs is about 360. The house has a roof slope of 45 degrees, Kiruna's snow zone?
I don't know any structural engineers, so I would gladly welcome some expert opinions. There seem to be some very skilled individuals in structural engineering here on the forum
I'm in the process of laying parquet on the ground floor. It will be a piece without seams, about 60 m2. I've laid 40 m2 in the living room and have now reached the boundary between the dining room/kitchen. It's the only load-bearing so-called "heart wall" in the house, and currently, it's partially opened 2/3 of the way, with the last part being a bar counter.
Now we want to remove the bar part as well so that the wall disappears completely and I can continue laying the floor without a seam. It's not very high to the ceiling, about 235 cm, so I don't see it as a first option to install a laminated beam; it protrudes too much.
My colleague and I were pondering whether it would be possible to use a Kerto beam in the dimension 45x400x3600, which could be conveniently placed in the middle of a dividing wall on the upper floor, so that it rests on the exterior wall and the heart wall at the other end, and attach it with some form of angle/column iron in the intermediate joist, which consists of 2"x8".
Now, I live in Kiruna, and there is no dealer for Kerto here, so would it be possible to use 2 laminated beams 42x220x3600 standing on top of each other, glued and screwed with plywood from one side instead?
The partition wall on the upper floor has 45mm studs, hence the maximum 45mm width of the beam, possibly a 56x270x3600 as I have double boards on both sides, but preferably a 45.
This would make the construction completely invisible, which would be great.
It's a bit difficult to explain everything precisely, but I'll try:
Above the wall we want to remove, there are 2 rooms, together about 20 m2, and the span downstairs is about 360. The house has a roof slope of 45 degrees, Kiruna's snow zone?
I don't know any structural engineers, so I would gladly welcome some expert opinions. There seem to be some very skilled individuals in structural engineering here on the forum
The only problem I see is that there may be suspended loads from the intermediate floor, and it's not so simple to make it hold. A through bolt or rather a threaded rod could be a solution, but it requires thicker dimensions than 45 mm considering that the holes significantly weaken it.
Kent
Kent
Then perhaps it will have to be a glulam beam on the ground floor after all, it seems like moving the beam up would be a bit too much of a custom build. However, that would have been the best aesthetically for me but I guess you can't have everything in this world.
The load-bearing wall consists of 45x95, so a glulam beam of 90x270x3600 should hold, right? Then I don't need to widen the wall and can maintain the same height as the other openings.
Best regards
but I guess you can't have everything in this world.The load-bearing wall consists of 45x95, so a glulam beam of 90x270x3600 should hold, right? Then I don't need to widen the wall and can maintain the same height as the other openings.
Best regards
It certainly sounds like it should hold, yes.
/Kent
/Kent
I want to share how nice it looks after I tore down the chipboard that was hiding the previous owner's ingenious construction
The beam rests nicely enough on 1 beam
I can add that the previous owner works in the construction department of a very large company
Always so nice to redo other chefs' soup.
The beam rests nicely enough on 1 beam
I can add that the previous owner works in the construction department of a very large company
Always so nice to redo other chefs' soup.
