Chums
Couple of Qs
Q1 How much is it likely to cost to get a structural engineer into run his/her eye over two relatively straightforward bits of work I'm thinking of doing.
bit of work 1 is a wall which is circa 12ft across and has two doorways in it, in the middle, with about 2 foot between them. (make sense?) I'm fairly certain it's not a load bearing wall but even if it is (and the bit between the wall does have about 2foot of wall running off it at 90degrees), if all I want to do is to essentially knock down the brickwork in the middle and have a single entrance to the part of the house beyond where the two doors are now.
Q2 a builder who was working next door had a look at the work, and reckoned that the whole of the kitchen where this wall was located needed to have the ceiling taken down and 'noggins' bracing all the joists above. Sounded like bollocks to me, as bracing from underneath can't give any support when force is being applied from above,surely?. What are your thoughts on this?
bit of work 2 is to replace a window in an end wall with a door of the same width. Is this likely to have any structural implications?
My main concern is that these works are at the end of a kitchen which has already has the wall to the breakfast room removed, and this would leave the sticky out bit at the backof the edwardian house considerably less supported than was the case originally.
Mark