Trying to find out if a wall is load-bearing?

[Tobiaz]

Hi, I have been to the city planning office and tried to obtain the correct drawings to determine if a wall is load-bearing.

However, I have found here on the forum that some have found a type of drawing that I didn't see on the microfilm in the archive, some form of floor plan.

I am attaching here what I have found, in the file "Ombyggnad-ändring.jpg" I have marked in red what I want to remove and in blue what I want to build up.

The other files are originals from -32 and the renovation that was done at the end of the 50s. The apartment is located in Kristineberg, Sthlm.

Does anyone have any opinions? Grateful for all responses.

/Tobias

 

[Tobiaz]

I have now examined the wall a bit, it is made up of a few centimeters of plaster, reed, and wooden planks.

So it seems very doubtful that it has any load-bearing function.

/Tobias

 

[MartinGustafsson]

start cutting into it and if the blade binds, it is under pressure.
a good method to use if you are 99% sure that it is not load-bearing.

 

[JanneL]

I wouldn't be surprised if the outer walls and the staircase walls are the load-bearing ones. Probably also load-bearing are the walls facing the apartments from the staircases on either side. The thick walls that separate the toilets/bathrooms.
I had a colleague who lived next to the subway in Kristineberg in the 70s. I seem to remember it was a stone building. I don't think it would be nice for the load-bearing walls to be made of wood back then.

 

[anaitis]

The walls you marked in red are most likely not load-bearing.

 

[Tobiaz]

Hello, thanks for the answers.

The wall is now gone, I put the saw in and it didn't bind. The week after I started tearing down, I found a similar lägenhem on Hemnet where they had torn down the entire closet, so they had obviously come to the same conclusion as I did.

/Tobias