The house is from 1938, with a broken/mansard roof. Planning to start renovations soon and have been considering 2 things.
1. Tear down the walk-in closets marked in red along the entire house to create a larger space. The room on the right isn't large once there's a 180 cm bed in there.
2. We want a larger bathroom since the bathtub is currently against the wall, which means you can only bathe. Yes, you can shower, but sitting on your haunches. I've measured that a bathtub should fit along the side of the house instead if the wall is moved.
The rooms have full ceiling height except for the hall, bathroom, and walk-in closets. The green lines on the drawing are the house's "outer walls" inside, which are straight and about 80-100 cm high before the break occurs. The red line in the middle, the bathroom wall, will be moved to line up with the hallway wall to make more space for the bathroom, creating a new interior wall there. The entire upper floor will essentially be gutted as new heating, electricity, insulation, flooring, etc., will be installed, so there are possibilities.
What do you think? Is it a BIG NONO!! to tear down the walk-in closets without support, or does it need to be supported? I've hit it with both my hand and a hammer, and it feels pretty flimsy! Almost hollow hits!
It is common for these to have a load-bearing function but not always. However, it cannot be determined with this information. Do you have any drawings?
everything depends on how it looks above. Older houses rarely have real rafters, and the roof ridges can be supported down to load-bearing interior walls and often it is the wall closest to the outer wall.
Unfortunately, I don't have any drawings. I've checked a bit today and it seems like the walk-in closets only support the ceiling since there's no wall whatsoever on the front of the house, while the back has walk-in closets, which are located 40cm from the roof trusses. I will contact the municipality to see if one could view/buy/get the house plans. Anyway, it seems like it will be a carpenter for those walls, leaning towards that anyway! They're supposed to move the middle wall as well.
Attached are some pictures in case they can help in any way.
The small window is in the walk-in closet, the same on the other side of the house. To the right of the window is the wall.
The right side, yes the wall is about 40cm from the window, towards the balcony, the stairs are in that room.
Picture in the walk-in closet. One more is coming, though, on the roof to see the distance.
The simplest thing is probably to go up to the attic and look? You can immediately see if you have struts pointing downwards that rest on something which in turn rests on the structure below?
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