Removing a load bearing wall in a bungalow

[Spamchops]

Hello
We have a wall in our kitchen that we want to remove. We want to run the new kitchen along the wall where it is. It is part of a doorway and we have had an engineer confirm it is load bearing. This is a bungalow with no upstairs and It's only two feet wide. We are living in Eire now, it's very difficult to get builders, so we are considering doing it ourselves. Is there a thread on here for doing it yourself? We have been kitchenless for over a year now and can't fit it until the wall is gone....

 

[Bouy]

Google installing a support beam, a few videos to see but you will need some structural calculation input to size the beam and confirm adequacy of supporting brickwork/foundations.Good luck

 

[Spamchops]

Thank you. That wall is the bungalow end wall, the short one if you get me We had hoped that the old door lintel went as far as the wall end, which would have made life easy, but apparently it doesn't.

 

[Bouy]

So what span do you need to span

 

[noseall]

Thank you. That wall is the bungalow end wall, the short one if you get me We had hoped that the old door lintel went as far as the wall end, which would have made life easy, but apparently it doesn't.

Get the same engineer to specify a beam, hire or borrow a pair of acro props, remove part of the ceiling and prop the roof (purlin presumably), remove the wall and fit the beam and necessary infill beneath the purlin. Horizontal height positioning of the beam and padstone requirements will require some thought though.

 

[jeds]

What's above that short section of wall? If it's just ceiling joists the load is tiny and you could take the wall out and replace with a concrete lintel - with some simple temporary support.

 

[robinbanks]

Same picture, same angle etc but 6 feet upwards in the loft please

 

[robinbanks]

We are living in Eire now

Geography wasn't my strongest point, but...

 

[Spamchops]

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Geography wasn't my strongest point, but...

Lol. we moved over last year and updating my details wasn't too high on the list.

 

[Spamchops]

Same picture, same angle etc but 6 feet upwards in the loft please

I will try and get up there and take a pic. As far as I know there's nothing up there, but the engineer sez its too long a span for the roof truss if that little wall goes without a support. He was mad though, he left the handbrake off his car and it rolled into our flower beds, he forgot the stuff he took in the attic and hasn't billed us yet. He came in March....

 

[robinbanks]

Yes, do sort a pic out; various options may present themselves once the dogs can see the rabbit. Have you got a quick sketch of the floor plan too?

 

[Spamchops]

So here's the other side of the wall. It's about two feet wide, plus the door width, so a span of about six feet. My camnera broke shortly after this, but I took some pics with my phone in the attic. There's not much to see as the insulation is very thick, but the joists go across this wall, so I guess that they will have to be supported. The entire bungalow is made of breeze blocks, there are no stud walls here at all. In an ideal world, I'd get rid of the lot up to the level of the ceiling, so that the kitchen became L shaped, but we will probably just put a lintel in above the doorframe into the end wall.

 

[Spamchops]

This is the end wall from outside, so the wall is about where the meter cupboard is.

 

[robinbanks]

So, will we get any attic pics?

 

[robinbanks]

there are no stud walls here at all.

I've only got stud walls, but a lot of them are load bearing. It may be wise to avoid assumptions about a wall's purpose from its construction materials