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This worked is already done, I just need to check if we have done the right thing. (Nothing has fallen down yet) it’s been a year or so as well.
so, we have an old Victorian build, 1920s, and we have renovated from top to bottom. I have just a couple of questions as we’ve done some ‘major’ work and I need peace of mind.
Firstly, we knocked down a wall separating our kitchen and dining room, the house joists ran parallel with the wall we knocked down, this wall sat in the middle of two joists, but it never reached the ceiling. Our bathroom upstairs is was 4 inches longer than the original wall we knocked through downstairs.
secondly, there was an odd floating old chimney stack in the kitchen when we brought it, it went all the way up the the loft, but without holding any timbers up on the roof. We removed a part of it in the kitchen (on good advice it was safe to do so) but we filled up the ‘void’ with lightweight breeze blocks. So, we then decided we wanted to take it out in the bathroom and asking chatting to my friends who in the building trade he said it would need to be removed in the loft as well, which is what we have done.
we left the bricks that were tied in to the exterior wall, in pretty much as good as condition as we found them. There is a void now running up through the bathroom into the loft.
So my question is, we decided to leave the void and have the bathroom plastered with boards, was I correct in doing so? And to both questions, is my house safe?
thanks for taking the time to read if you have.
so, we have an old Victorian build, 1920s, and we have renovated from top to bottom. I have just a couple of questions as we’ve done some ‘major’ work and I need peace of mind.
Firstly, we knocked down a wall separating our kitchen and dining room, the house joists ran parallel with the wall we knocked down, this wall sat in the middle of two joists, but it never reached the ceiling. Our bathroom upstairs is was 4 inches longer than the original wall we knocked through downstairs.
secondly, there was an odd floating old chimney stack in the kitchen when we brought it, it went all the way up the the loft, but without holding any timbers up on the roof. We removed a part of it in the kitchen (on good advice it was safe to do so) but we filled up the ‘void’ with lightweight breeze blocks. So, we then decided we wanted to take it out in the bathroom and asking chatting to my friends who in the building trade he said it would need to be removed in the loft as well, which is what we have done.
we left the bricks that were tied in to the exterior wall, in pretty much as good as condition as we found them. There is a void now running up through the bathroom into the loft.
So my question is, we decided to leave the void and have the bathroom plastered with boards, was I correct in doing so? And to both questions, is my house safe?
thanks for taking the time to read if you have.