Moving Internal Walls

Question

I wonder if you can help me. We're looking to buy a house, where I can see an improvement could be made, dividing a bedroom. but would need to create the access to the 2nd bedroom by recreating the landing. There seems to be the space to do this by moving walls of a 3rd bedroom. I'm just wondering how easy this all is. Looks like its move 4 internal walls, 3 new doorways, but are there watch outs in terms of lighting, carpets. If one wall is load bearing (not sure if it is) is that simple to get around or an issue etc, just really looking for advice on complexity and cost ? Thank you

Jason · Accepted Answer

The simple answer to this is yes it’s all possible but the cost will depend on several answers and a builder would need to take a look, some houses of certain eras only have stud walls upstairs so can easily knock the whole lot down and rebuild in stud work with doorways in appropriate places, some houses it’s brick walls with supports that go up to the purlins in roof and these would need to be replaced, also bare in mind their are regulations around size of landing and doors opening on to landings and distance from stairs so worth just checking with local building control

Sebastian · Answer

Depends, if the walls are studs or main House walls as maybe need Rsj steel beams to support load above,  best is to have an on site visit

bazza · Answer

If an RSJ is required building's regulations are required.
Wall then removed 
Build other walls in stud and plasterboard don't forget soundproofing in the stud  
I'm doing a bungalow at the moment and 3 steels joist have been specified  to remove 3 walls.
Sort of cost if similar around 5k.hope this helps

Reece · Answer

You would be looking at around £10,000 for the full job to be carried out.

Paul · Answer

Supporting a load-bearing wall always involve much more time and cost. If it is not a load-bearing wall then you are looking at 3 to 4 days work! But if it is a load-bearing wall then more like 6 to 7 days! My time also includes organising the work and removing the waste material !!

Amos · Answer

Depends on roof look in loft to see if any walls are supporting roof plus look if walls are timber or brick and yes this is a costly job and safety must be taken in to account thanks

Daniel · Answer

I would always recommend a structural engineer to look first

Moving Internal Walls

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