Outer leaf removal.

[Nivster]

Sorry. I posted this in wrong forum and I cannot delete it. New to this site. I have copy pasted it to the building forum.
I'm hoping someone can answer my query. I am in the middle of renovating my house. I am knocking a doorway through from my bedroom to an en-suite. The bedroom is in an extension that was built and the en-suite is in the original building. The doorway is going through the old exterior wall. When the extension was built they just boxed in the soffit that looks like a boxed in beam. The reason for this is because it is a concrete soffit made of slabs that bridge from the outer leaf to the inner leaf. The inner leaf then has another line of brick that the hipped roof of the original building and the hipped roof of the extension sits on. Would I be able to prop up both sides of the wall and remove the concrete slabs and replace with brick hence removing the ugly boxed in soffit? Also if I am going to the trouble of propping the whole wall would I be able to remove the outer leaf of the wall now it is an internal wall. I have removed the plasterboard from both sides and nothing is sitting on the outer leaf. I just wonder if the slabs of concrete bridging the 2 leaves are spreading the load or is the load just on the inner leaf that the roof is sitting on. It seems a lot of work for not much space but it will actually help in what is a tight for space room. Any advice is much appreciated.

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[tony1851]

Removing the (old) outer skin is a common tricj for gaining etra width.

If the wall plate seems to be over the inner skin, you should be OK removing the outer skin.

 

[Nivster]

Thanks for the response. So basically the slab that is bridging between the inner leaf and outer leaf to create the soffit is not transferring any weight of significance from the inner leaf to the outer leaf? The building was built in 1930 and there is no wall plate. the joists are placed directly on the brick. I will have to prop the joists and remove the line of brick supporting the joists to then remove the slabs (that are the same thickness as a brick)bridging the 2 leafs. Then I can replace the slabs with brick on the inner leaf up to the joists. Once that is done all the load is on the inner leaf and the outer leaf is then ready to be demolished. Does that sound correct?