Yet another question about interior walls...

[jonjoh]

Hello

I'm slightly considering replacing my old kitchen as I'm not quite satisfied with the layout, see the attached images.
I would like to open up two walls in the service corridor, thereby opening up more towards the dining room (bedroom in the sketch) and then place the kitchen along the exterior wall.

But then the eternal question!
What do you think?
I was thinking of opening up the red-marked area in the image showing the entrance floor, but not all the way up to the ceiling, roughly at the same height as the existing doors. (To be able to run ducts for the exhaust vent and a bit more).



Below is a sketch of the basement floor; the marked wall is sketched as it is because it otherwise includes a bomb shelter down there (which I have erased the rest of), this bomb shelter has never existed but was included as apparently there were some form of financial benefit during the world war...



Then a section drawing just for fun.


These are all the drawings I have of the house haha!
What do you think?

The house is from 1946 with plank walls, which also makes it all more complicated, I assume.

Regards

 

[justusandersson]

Much suggests that the walls are not load-bearing. However, with wooden frames, you can never be completely sure. Beams can run in different directions within the same floor structure. The easiest way to check this is to look at the direction of the floorboards on the upper floor. They lie perpendicular to the floor joists. Check on both sides of the relevant wall section. The chimney in the middle might have complicated things.

 

[jonjoh]

A lot suggests that the walls aren't load-bearing. However, with plank frames, you can never be absolutely certain. Beams can have different directions in the same floor structure. The simplest way to check this is to look at the direction of the floorboards on the upper floor. They are perpendicular to the floor beams. Check on both sides of the wall section in question. The chimney in the middle might have complicated things.

hello! Thanks, and as I said, I understand that nothing is really obvious... on the upper floor, the floorboards are visible, and they are "horizontal" when you look at the pictures above, can't see that there's anything special around the chimney... does this tell you anything more?

 

[justusandersson]

Yes, then the floor joists are not placed on the walls you want to tear down, so it should be fine.

 

[jonjoh]

Great, we'll continue with the plan then... need to keep an eye out when dismantling and see if anything unusual comes up.

Thanks for the help!