hi all,
just about to start work and convert a kitchen to include a couple of internal rooms and make it bigger.
The house is a funny one. There's an integral garage that has a concrete and steel beam roof. The concrete slab extends through the back of the house and outside by about 25cm. In all the slab is about 7' wide and 34' long.
I'd like to extend the kitchen into an area where the slab is the ceiling. The wall I want to knock down has no other brickwork above it. It's about 3.4m long with two doors in it. The slab is supported by the outside wall (33' long), rear wall (7' part of it), front wall containing Garage doors and inside wall about 20' long.
My question is, does it sound like the wall I want to take down is structural?
Do I get a builder to look at it and trust his experience or else a structural engineer and how would they assess it?
I have a layout of the floorplan which I've uploaded to GWS stuff.
thanks for looking and I hope you can help.
cheers
GW
just about to start work and convert a kitchen to include a couple of internal rooms and make it bigger.
The house is a funny one. There's an integral garage that has a concrete and steel beam roof. The concrete slab extends through the back of the house and outside by about 25cm. In all the slab is about 7' wide and 34' long.
I'd like to extend the kitchen into an area where the slab is the ceiling. The wall I want to knock down has no other brickwork above it. It's about 3.4m long with two doors in it. The slab is supported by the outside wall (33' long), rear wall (7' part of it), front wall containing Garage doors and inside wall about 20' long.
My question is, does it sound like the wall I want to take down is structural?
Do I get a builder to look at it and trust his experience or else a structural engineer and how would they assess it?
I have a layout of the floorplan which I've uploaded to GWS stuff.
thanks for looking and I hope you can help.
cheers
GW