Kitchen diner project

[Nick5912]

The missus has decided we need to convert a perfectly good dining room and kitchen into 1 kitchen diner!
Obviously this will involve removing an internal wall. The wall (brick) in question supports the joists for both the bathroom & a bedroom. The joists are not continuous but overlap on top of the support wall which needs to be removed.
The wall between the bathroom and bedroom is an old lath & plaster wall. The gap to be spanned is approx 4.6m.
Just as a guide what would be the way to span the gap and with what?

Cheers Nick

 

[cmother1]

That's a very wide opening. I'm sure you'll need a pretty substantial steel "I" beam to span it.
This work is subject to Building Regs so ideally you need the help of a structural engineer to work out exactly how big.