Hi,
I was wondering if you guy's could give me some advice on opening under my stairs & if a wall underneath my stairs is a supporting wall?
Basically it's 1970 house & the upper larger half is where the boiler is installed as usual & I would like to open up the bottom half of my stairs to use for storage.
I've had a look & the wall is made of the hollow concrete bricks with some normal bricks & motar to meet the stairs.
Although on closer inspection the wall only comes up to a piece of plasterboard which is only fixed to the bottom of the stairs by 1 little batten running up the stairs.
So is this actually a supporting wall for the stairs since there seems to be a gap in between the top of the wall & the stairs?
There is also a small triangular shaped wall (60cms wide) at the bottom of 1 side of the stairs only, not both which seems to be support the stairs? But why only 1 side?
Apart from that there don't seem to be any other fixings or supports for under the stairs.
Thanks
I was wondering if you guy's could give me some advice on opening under my stairs & if a wall underneath my stairs is a supporting wall?
Basically it's 1970 house & the upper larger half is where the boiler is installed as usual & I would like to open up the bottom half of my stairs to use for storage.
I've had a look & the wall is made of the hollow concrete bricks with some normal bricks & motar to meet the stairs.
Although on closer inspection the wall only comes up to a piece of plasterboard which is only fixed to the bottom of the stairs by 1 little batten running up the stairs.
So is this actually a supporting wall for the stairs since there seems to be a gap in between the top of the wall & the stairs?
There is also a small triangular shaped wall (60cms wide) at the bottom of 1 side of the stairs only, not both which seems to be support the stairs? But why only 1 side?
Apart from that there don't seem to be any other fixings or supports for under the stairs.
Thanks