Hello,
In my house I have an internal (middle) load bearing wall as follows:
1) 4m in length then a dog legged 0.8m offset and then another 3.7m in length, basically the length of the house from front to back.
2) Single 4" brick from foundations to roof.
3) Extends into roof and supports the middle of the roof purlins.
4) Upstairs the wall is "buttressed" in 4 places by dividing walls.
5) Downstairs wall is not "buttressed" as one side is main living room and is one big room, other side is hall/kitchen with the divider at the same place as the wall offset. So no downstairs lateral support.
6) Joists built into wall not on hangers.
Constructed like this 60 years ago, can't see any problems.
But why does this work?
What stops the middle of the downstairs parts of the two sections of wall from bowing out for example?
Been thinking about this all day! What a sad creature I am!
Bob
In my house I have an internal (middle) load bearing wall as follows:
1) 4m in length then a dog legged 0.8m offset and then another 3.7m in length, basically the length of the house from front to back.
2) Single 4" brick from foundations to roof.
3) Extends into roof and supports the middle of the roof purlins.
4) Upstairs the wall is "buttressed" in 4 places by dividing walls.
5) Downstairs wall is not "buttressed" as one side is main living room and is one big room, other side is hall/kitchen with the divider at the same place as the wall offset. So no downstairs lateral support.
6) Joists built into wall not on hangers.
Constructed like this 60 years ago, can't see any problems.
But why does this work?
What stops the middle of the downstairs parts of the two sections of wall from bowing out for example?
Been thinking about this all day! What a sad creature I am!
Bob