Someone just called and asked if they could make handicap adjustments to my other villa and saw off the high thresholds between the rooms.
I approved with the comment that it should be serious carpenters who know what they are doing... Not just that they follow a work order regardless of what it says...
So it's best to check with you...
A house from say the 1930s... with doors between the rooms, the thresholds are about 20-25cm high or something...
Is it safe to just saw these off or could they be significant load-bearing elements in some way?
I approved with the comment that it should be serious carpenters who know what they are doing... Not just that they follow a work order regardless of what it says...
So it's best to check with you...
A house from say the 1930s... with doors between the rooms, the thresholds are about 20-25cm high or something...
Is it safe to just saw these off or could they be significant load-bearing elements in some way?
Mja...at least in a log cabin, they can have a binding function.
Hope you mean 20-25 cm wide 
Personally, I think it's a real shame, can't they install some form of plates or wedges so they can get over the threshold (which can be removed later if you want to restore the originals)?
I can't imagine that they would have any load-bearing function.
Personally, I think it's a real shame, can't they install some form of plates or wedges so they can get over the threshold (which can be removed later if you want to restore the originals)?
I can't imagine that they would have any load-bearing function.
haha, I didn't have time to change. for the first time in a very long time, I got the key and was able to go in and look... it was rather like 5cm high... 10-15cm wide...
it's a timber building, below is probably a low torpagrund or whatever they are called, it stands on a low wall so to speak...
and yes I'm considering not only encouraging them to pave so it becomes a mild speed bump for the pensioner only...
it's a timber building, below is probably a low torpagrund or whatever they are called, it stands on a low wall so to speak...
and yes I'm considering not only encouraging them to pave so it becomes a mild speed bump for the pensioner only...
Don't remove them for anything in the world.. it would be a huge shame.
Carpenter came, he did not dare - it could be load-bearing after all, so he installed aluminum ramps in a relatively discreet way.
Nice.