Hi,
This is my frst post here and I'm hoping someone might be able to help me.
I'm having a new kitchen fitted and the current layout is:
That's fine, except that the red bar represents a 2m opening the full width but not the full height of the room, and I was hoping to have a more "one room" appearance. Having seen other local houses and the direction of the joists above the red bar I think this would've originally been a load bearing wall, and it looks like a concrete lintel (140 x 100mm ish) has been used to span the opening. The lintel supports the joists for the rooms above, as well as a breeze block internal wall which would be approximately directly above it.
Does the conctrete lintel seem sufficient for that? If I were to replace this with a steel lintel that can be moved into the ceiling space I gather I'd need to have it inspected / approved by Building Control, is that correct?
Thanks for reading, much appreciated!
Dave
This is my frst post here and I'm hoping someone might be able to help me.
I'm having a new kitchen fitted and the current layout is:
That's fine, except that the red bar represents a 2m opening the full width but not the full height of the room, and I was hoping to have a more "one room" appearance. Having seen other local houses and the direction of the joists above the red bar I think this would've originally been a load bearing wall, and it looks like a concrete lintel (140 x 100mm ish) has been used to span the opening. The lintel supports the joists for the rooms above, as well as a breeze block internal wall which would be approximately directly above it.
Does the conctrete lintel seem sufficient for that? If I were to replace this with a steel lintel that can be moved into the ceiling space I gather I'd need to have it inspected / approved by Building Control, is that correct?
Thanks for reading, much appreciated!
Dave