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Is this wall load bearing?

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 2.47 PM

Hi, Is this wall load bearing? Can I remove it without introducing any support? About the wall: It's a 3.8m long red brick wall internal wall, only 1 brick deep. In a 1904 two bedroom terrace house. The joists on the ground floor run perpendicular to the wall, but the joists above the wall, and those in the loft run parallel to the wall, as do the roof rafters. The loft space is completely open, with no truss rafters or knee walls. The wall directly above it, on the 1st floor is a stud wall. Photos: View from adjoining room: https://ibb.co/jrgNfa https://ibb.co/iFCjtv Where this wall meets another internal wall: https://ibb.co/bBatmF From Kitchen, showing T arch: https://ibb.co/e5GNfa From kitchen 2: https://ibb.co/mwrcDv Thanks a lot for your time.

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Plans Express

Rating: 3.7 out of 5

Chiswick, London

Load bearing wall give a building structural integrity, it carries and distributes weight from the roof and top floors down to the foundation. Safest way to identify one is to hire a professional structural engineer. This is not a load Bearing wall, Internal wall bearing walls will have the 1st floor joist onto them, I would recommend anyone to get advice before they remove walls, Not all load bearing walls are built from brick, some are Timber stud walls with one side having plywood ,

Answered18 March 2017