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Is my bathroom wall load bearing?

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.23 PM

Everything pointed to not until I took away the door frame... Basically I have a separate toilet & bathroom I want to knock through. The wall itself is some very thin black blocks that is built on top of the floor boards. In the loft, the joists run the same way as the wall. However, after taking out the door frames, some timber 'supports' are running about 1/3rd of the way down that have been cut in to the blocks and stick out about 2 inches in to the loft and are nailed in to the beams above? I hope some of that makes sense, but I am now unsure if these are supports or for something else?

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A. Hadham Construction Ltd

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Ware

This wall should not be load bearing. However this does not mean that the wall has not been used for this. Ask a local builder to have a look if not ask your local building control for advice.

Answered7 May 2019

SPS Building and Joinery Services

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Rotherham

The wall cannot carry much load as it is built on floorboards, sounds like you in a prefab house built just after the war . The timber sounds like ceiling/floor joists without a picture so you should easily be able to bolt onto them before you remove the wall, check in the loft for what load they carry.

Answered22 July 2019