Removing wall understairs.

[david17uk]

Hi everybody.

Just after a little confirmation, before i knock a wall down and my house collapses..

I'm planning on knocking the wall between my understairs cupboard and dining room, to relocate the kitchen door.

The wall is lath and plaster (3" x 3" timber studs), i just want to make sure the 3x3 inbetween the 2 current doorways isnt supporting the stairs.

It sits on the downstairs floor joist then finishes at the kitchen ceiling resting on top of this is 2 joists which start and end on structural walls. (the pics are easier than explaining)...

The red line is the 3x3 stud.

The yellow are the 2 joists.

The blue are both brick walls.

The green arrows point to hollow walls.

Will that be ok to remove?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks for your time.

Dave.

 

[big-all]

do not under any circumstances go any further its holding the stairs up including the sloping wall or at least from what we can see thats what it looks like

 

[david17uk]

Thanks for the reply. Is there anything i can look for to tell either way for sure? Any tell tale signs?

 

[david17uk]

Oh. just to be clear. Its only the beam I've drawn red that i want to remove. The 2 yellow joists will be left in (supported by the 2 brick walls drawn blue).

 

[handyman77]

You may have to reinforce the beam that's holding the joists, we have used a cocrete lintel in the past it's depends on what's above and the span. Would be worth getting a engineer to have a butchers.

 

[big-all]

Oh. just to be clear. Its only the beam I've drawn red that i want to remove. The 2 yellow joists will be left in (supported by the 2 brick walls drawn blue).

ok what i see is a stair case supported by your "hollow wall" then the landing is supported from the beam in yellow and the hollow wall
we can see no further and can only give " our honest opinion " and no more
i would suggest the lack off other response suggests the supporting detail is not fully explained
the items i have mentioned [stairs and landing] may be fully supported but not in the views you have shown