Hello everyone,
I see a lot of expertise in this forum and I’m taking the chance to ask a question, even though I haven’t built myself but rather bought a house, and I hope you won’t be too harsh on me for this 🙂
Situation: We purchased a 25-year-old detached house (solid brick). We are currently carrying out extensive renovations and modernization (partly as DIY). In a rather naive move, we removed a wall recess in a load-bearing brick wall (exterior wall, 36cm brick, 40cm with plaster) on the first of two upper floors without initially considering the consequences, which are now slowly becoming clear to us.
About the recess itself: 13cm deep (11cm of brick), 90cm wide, 33cm high. It is located in the corner of the room and starts about 50cm away from the nearest adjacent load-bearing wall. Almost in the middle of the wall at a room height of around 2.5m (8 feet).
I know a structural engineer will definitely give me the answer, but if I can save the 500€ fee, I’d like to do so. Or if someone here is certain that it’s not okay (or uncertain), I can have it filled in again right away. What do you think: acceptable, better to fill with concrete right away, or an individual decision for a structural engineer?
Thanks for your assessment.
I see a lot of expertise in this forum and I’m taking the chance to ask a question, even though I haven’t built myself but rather bought a house, and I hope you won’t be too harsh on me for this 🙂
Situation: We purchased a 25-year-old detached house (solid brick). We are currently carrying out extensive renovations and modernization (partly as DIY). In a rather naive move, we removed a wall recess in a load-bearing brick wall (exterior wall, 36cm brick, 40cm with plaster) on the first of two upper floors without initially considering the consequences, which are now slowly becoming clear to us.
About the recess itself: 13cm deep (11cm of brick), 90cm wide, 33cm high. It is located in the corner of the room and starts about 50cm away from the nearest adjacent load-bearing wall. Almost in the middle of the wall at a room height of around 2.5m (8 feet).
I know a structural engineer will definitely give me the answer, but if I can save the 500€ fee, I’d like to do so. Or if someone here is certain that it’s not okay (or uncertain), I can have it filled in again right away. What do you think: acceptable, better to fill with concrete right away, or an individual decision for a structural engineer?
Thanks for your assessment.
brighton0287 schrieb:
I can't say the exact brick size right now, but it's definitely not DF or NF, I think. Here is a photo.Oh, it looks like you have thinly chiseled typical jumbo-format cellular bricks today.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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brighton028731 Jan 2022 15:4411ant schrieb:
Oh, it looks like today you’ve used jumbo-size porous bricks for the small compartments. Thanks, the image was deleted by the admin after the correct notice. Exactly, the bricks are jumbo size. "Dünngestemmt" (thinly built) sounds very negative, but yes, that’s what we used 😀