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Load Bearing Wall

Posted by Toby / Leanne T, on Mon 27 Jan 2014 10:44am

Last owners knocked out a downstairs loo in the kitchen. There are walls above this housing the airing cupboard and water tank. Fair sized cracks have appeared in the ceiling along the lines of the removed wall. Our homebuyer report never mentioned any problems when we bought six months ago. Worried in case this would be load bearing and doubt that there would be a joist there. What should we do?

john cunningham

Mon 27 Jan 2014 02:18pm

Hi Leanne Check that the walls above are stud walls or brick gently tap the wall, if it sounds hollow it maybee stud. If it sounds solid it's probably brick. You really ought to post it as a job and get someone to look at it just to be sure. JC

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