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Hello.
I want to knock through from my small kitchen into my small dining room to create a kitchen diner (like everyone else).
I've just taken a drill to the offending wall and it is single course breeze block with dot/dab plaster board each side.
Does this mean it is automatically a load bearing wall?
THe house was built (thrown together on a Friday afternoon by a bunch of blind incompetent 'artists' in a hurry) in 1989 and is a small detatched two story house.
The reason I question whether it is load bearing is that all the beams in the ceiling run from the front of the house to the back of the house. The wall runs the same direction..... Can this therefore be a load bearing wall?
Here is a plan view of the house as it is now....
The wall to be removed is the one to the rear of the house dividing the two rooms that are next to the conservatory.
If it is load bearing, how much would a builder typically charge to insert a beam and remove the wall?
And if the beams run parallele to the wall how could it be load bearing? (if it is)?
Sorry if I'm asking stupid questions....
Thanks
I want to knock through from my small kitchen into my small dining room to create a kitchen diner (like everyone else).
I've just taken a drill to the offending wall and it is single course breeze block with dot/dab plaster board each side.
Does this mean it is automatically a load bearing wall?
THe house was built (thrown together on a Friday afternoon by a bunch of blind incompetent 'artists' in a hurry) in 1989 and is a small detatched two story house.
The reason I question whether it is load bearing is that all the beams in the ceiling run from the front of the house to the back of the house. The wall runs the same direction..... Can this therefore be a load bearing wall?
Here is a plan view of the house as it is now....
The wall to be removed is the one to the rear of the house dividing the two rooms that are next to the conservatory.
If it is load bearing, how much would a builder typically charge to insert a beam and remove the wall?
And if the beams run parallele to the wall how could it be load bearing? (if it is)?
Sorry if I'm asking stupid questions....
Thanks