Removing supporting wall beneath stairs

[Doggit]

It's the other end of the landing that sits on the wall you want to remove, so you'd need to run an RSJ or beam across to the other side of the kitchen to replace the support. Although if you didn't mind the odd look, you might be able to run a shorter one from the stairs/kitchen wall, under the corner of the landing, and then to the outside wall. You could then box it all in to make it look neat, and have a few downlighters for the kitchen table.

 

[^woody^]

So.... I'm right back to square one

Yeah nothing's changed. The stairs are supported off floor joists not that wall in the kitchen, and the problem remains holding up that wall upstairs.

 

[Hpd]

Yeah nothing's changed. The stairs are supported off floor joists not that wall in the kitchen, and the problem remains holding up that wall upstairs.

The upstairs wall seems to sit on a timber lintel which spans from the trimmer to the outside wall. How does this relate to the wall below?

 

[^woody^]

What's under the end trimmer?

What's under the trimmer that runs parallel to the stair opening?

 

[algas]

I had a similar problem at my daughters house and like doggit says I used a steel set into both walls at the diagonal then boxed in with a down lighter, did't look out of place and gave the kitchen more of an open feel

 

[Hpd]

What's under the end trimmer?

What's under the trimmer that runs parallel to the stair opening?

Nothing. The wall is bricked up to it but there's plasterboard on the underside of the trimmer and joist so I don't think it's supporting it

 

[Doggit]

Post a few pictures of the cupboard and inside it, but I'll pretty much guarantee that the the landing is being supported on the wall that you want to remove. I'll be damned surprised if they've hung the landing off of the trimmers in the upper floor; there'd have been no need for the cupboard if they'd done that.

 

[noseall]

You may need a full height (down to the floor) newel.

 

[Hpd]

There's a sketch of what I've found, the lintel fixes into the trimmer just incase that bit isn't clear