RSJ Needed?

[brooks693]

Hi

Im looking at getting the current wall between my bathroom and toilet knocked through.

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• brooks693
• 24 Aug 2013
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Bathroom and Toilet in blue.

The wall is about 1.5m long, and 100-150mm thick and runs perpendicular to the joists as shown below.

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• brooks693
• 1 Sep 2013
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• brooks693
• 1 Sep 2013
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So do you think it will need an RSJ (as well as the boiler moving)?
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[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

What is the wall made of that you intend to knock down?
Looks like you would get away without on, judging by diagrams and photos, but would always recommend getting a SE in to do calcs, if the walls are of brick/block construction.

 

[brooks693]

It's definitely made of brick. The top wall of the toilet is the original external wall of the house so it's pretty close to the wall I was hoping to remove.

 

[tony1851]

You say it's brick, but is it just 'brick-on-edge'? This was a common way of forming non-loadbearing partitions years ago.
If so, it's unlikely to to be loadbearing.
In any case, the dividing wall between a bathroom and wc is rarely structural.