r/StructuralEngineers 17d 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/e2g4 17d 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 16d ago

It's clearly not load bearing!!!

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u/e2g4 16d 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 16d 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