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*quick note to say id never go ahead with knocking this down based on advice received over the internet and would get a pro in for opinion. If, however, someone points out that’s it obviously is load bearing, I’ll give up on the idea.*
I’m currently ripping my house to pieces since I have nothing better to do (mid terrace 1930s). I also have the smallest bathroom ever so figured that might be something to rectify. We have a larger than necessary landing area at the top of the stairs and I can add about a foot of useful space to the tiny bathroom if I move the wall
I’m trying to establish whether the wall is load bearing. It runs parallel to the floor joists below and spans about half way across the width of the house. As far as I can tell, the wall sits on the edge of the right hand floor joists here (taken from downstairs where looking up at where the ceiling used to be).
The roof construction is shown here with the struts bearing down our bedroom wall which sits on an rsj below (so is obviously load bearing).
The next few pics show where the ceiling joists meet the wall I want to move from
Above in the loft. Here is the joist closest to the petty wall (upside down. you can just make out timber of wall plate below)
A few more pics of wall plate beneath ceiling joists
The wall Then meets a perpendicular which runs parallal with ceiling joists.
You can see the binder here running parallel with the wall I want to remove; it is bedded in the party wall at the other end but ends just out of shot and doesn’t extend to the last four joists, which are above the wall I want to move.
As far as I can see, at most this wall is offering some support to the 4 ceiling joists that cross it. You can see on a couple of the pics there are binders running across the joists, one of which is almost in line with the wall I want to move. This binder doesn’t span the entire space though, and seems to rest on the perpendicular wall mentioned above.
If it is only supporting those 4 ceiling joists, would extending the binder and hanging from purlins be a sensible idea?
Hope that makes sense.
*quick note to say id never go ahead with knocking this down based on advice received over the internet and would get a pro in for opinion. If, however, someone points out that’s it obviously is load bearing, I’ll give up on the idea.*
I’m currently ripping my house to pieces since I have nothing better to do (mid terrace 1930s). I also have the smallest bathroom ever so figured that might be something to rectify. We have a larger than necessary landing area at the top of the stairs and I can add about a foot of useful space to the tiny bathroom if I move the wall
I’m trying to establish whether the wall is load bearing. It runs parallel to the floor joists below and spans about half way across the width of the house. As far as I can tell, the wall sits on the edge of the right hand floor joists here (taken from downstairs where looking up at where the ceiling used to be).
The roof construction is shown here with the struts bearing down our bedroom wall which sits on an rsj below (so is obviously load bearing).
The next few pics show where the ceiling joists meet the wall I want to move from
Above in the loft. Here is the joist closest to the petty wall (upside down. you can just make out timber of wall plate below)
A few more pics of wall plate beneath ceiling joists
The wall Then meets a perpendicular which runs parallal with ceiling joists.
You can see the binder here running parallel with the wall I want to remove; it is bedded in the party wall at the other end but ends just out of shot and doesn’t extend to the last four joists, which are above the wall I want to move.
As far as I can see, at most this wall is offering some support to the 4 ceiling joists that cross it. You can see on a couple of the pics there are binders running across the joists, one of which is almost in line with the wall I want to move. This binder doesn’t span the entire space though, and seems to rest on the perpendicular wall mentioned above.
If it is only supporting those 4 ceiling joists, would extending the binder and hanging from purlins be a sensible idea?
Hope that makes sense.
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