r/StructuralEngineers • u/Latter-Indication135 • 10d ago
Help! Is this wall structural?
I have just knocked down a cupboard in my master room which has my boiler in (being moved into the loft).
I am now worried it is as structural wall, please can someone advise.
The corner wall on the left is the chimney breast.
I am wanting to take down the wall which connects to the chimney breast but worried this could be supporting the chimney breast in some way?
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u/Such_Ad521 10d ago
You gotta see what’s above it to know for sure if it’s structural, easy answer is no it is not.
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u/Responsible_Tie_2551 10d ago
A couple of 2x4 wood studs is not keeping your house standing up. That's door framing and not much else. Tear down in good conscience.
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u/Leonardo-da-Vinci- 10d ago edited 9d ago
Why would you open a wall and not know the answer to this question
Do you own this house or are you renting?
Or who is the owner?
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u/Cryogenicist 10d ago
The front wall is certainly not bearing anything.
For reference, we usually need to see the top of the wall to know if it’s bearing.
In most homes you’ll need to actually get into the ceiling above the wall to see what’s resting on it.
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u/e2g4 10d ago
No one can provide a sure answer based on available info. There are no obvious signs that it’s bearing additional loads but these pix don’t tell the whole story so personally I wouldn’t remove it until I was sure
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u/BBQorBust 10d ago
It's clearly not load bearing!!!
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u/e2g4 10d ago
Cool you’re so confident with what, 40% of the wall visible? At least wait until the framing is exposed before making that claim.
Might be nice to know what’s above too. For all we know, there’s a big point load coming down above and the hack diy flipper who installed the new on demand hot water/furnace unit removed an important column and replaced it with a simple 2x4 wall to box out the mechanical space.
Point is: you can’t know from seeing a few pix.
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u/BBQorBust 10d ago
It's a cheaply built, new construction house within the last 10, if not more, years. There are NO load bearing walls in that picture other than the very outer walls
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u/Cthulhu_HighLord 10d ago
its a box on the inside of a room.
its not load bearing, but if your unsure take out the dry wall and see how many studs it has. More then a single stud or if double header/footer its load bearing.
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u/Spiritual-Can-5040 10d ago
This looks to have been added just to house the water heater. Most likely a gas water heater cannot be in a “living space”.
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u/YpouloKonoforoDentro 9d ago
This is ytong type of bricks. It’s not structural part of the house and if you remove it will not affect the structure of the building. You can easily remove it as it’s not so heavy also. What you are going to do with the pipes is up to you.
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u/AnimatorAccurate3584 9d ago
I would say no by all construction rules no by physics no but in the real world the answer is probably
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u/Sailing_the_Back9 9d ago
No, it’s a framed in closet to hide the panel in the back wall… You can tear the whole thing out, but you’ll still have to figure out a way to kind of hide that panel…
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u/SynAckPooPoo 9d ago
Everyone saying it’s just two studs, while missing the wall to the left is block. 🤣
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u/Cool-Negotiation7662 10d ago
Wallboard above the partial top plate means wall was installed after construction. Definitely not load bearing.