Is this a load bearing wall?

[SkipFeeney]

Hi All,

I have manged to get the plans of my 1950's semi detached. Can anyone tell me if they think the kitchen wall between the dining room is a load bearing wall - the one on the far left? It is offset to the main hallway wall.

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• SkipFeeney
• 11 Feb 2016

Plans

Thanks

 

[kazuya]

have you got the upstairs drawing?

 

[^woody^]

Yes I do

 

[SkipFeeney]

Got the upstairs drawings:

Not sure if it helps but the bathroom wall is 220cm away from the side of the house, the dinining room / kitchen wall is 280cm away from the side of the house so they are not on top of each other:

Upstairs

• SkipFeeney
• 11 Feb 2016

 

[tony1851]

Regardless of where the dividing wall is upstairs, if the floor joists are running onto the wall, it will be load-bearing.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

 

[theprinceofdarkness]

Check the floorboards in either your bathroom(under the bath?) or bedroom 2. The joists will be at right angles to them, if they are parallel with that wall then you could be in luck.
Frank

 

[tony1851]

Eh....?

 

[^woody^]

Eh....?

Reported for trying to sell his ebay stuff on here

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

You muppets, drill a boomin hole in the ceiling, stick your hand in, have a grope around, jobs a goodun. If he's gonna be ripping the wall down then a hole in the ceiling next to the wall can just be patched when the rest is done.

 

[mfarrow]

Agreed, these days I prefer holes in ceilings to floorboard cutting/carpet shredding agro.