OT Knocking a wall down
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Properly off topic...

I'm looking at taking a wall down in out single storey extension.
How do I go about establishing that it's not structural?

It's all brick and sits about a metre from another identical wall.

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Get into the roof space somehow and have a gander?

how new is the extension, how wide is it, show us a photo.

is it flat roof or pitched


carl

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Do the roof joists run parallel to the wall or at 90 degrees to it?

It's a pitched roof.

I'll have to have a look in the loft tonight. But what am I looking for?

The joists run parallel to the wall.

The main building is Victorian and the extension was built in the 70's / 80's.

Cheers guys :)

In the 13's at last!.. Just

If the joists are parallel to the wall you want to take down, the wall is not supporting the joists.

From it's age and guesssing at size (as it has internal walls) it will most likely have required Planning Permission and probably Building Regulations approval (it's only recently a lot of rules have been relaxed).

Phone or email your local council planning department to confirm they have the records, then go down and look at the plans that were submitted. With my local council, you don't even need to make an appointment, just turn up.

With mine, looking is free, copies were £12 last time I asked.

If it isn't obvious from the plans, ask your council's Building Inspector to look at them.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

If you are at all!!!! Unsure Get someone in to double check in or it will in catastrophe