Cost for removal of load baring wall

averagejoe123

Hi,

Would anyone have a rough estimate for the removal of a concrete block load baring wall between a kitchen/living room approx. 3.5m in length?

We will be doing up the kitchen so just looking for a ball park figure.

Thanks

Joe

case_sensitive

I got a very rough estimate of €10k to knock a wall between kitchen and dining and replace with steel supporting beam. Apparently the steel alone will be €3-4K.

c.p.w.g.w

Is load bearing where the wall supports the roof or the jousts of the second floor?

tradesman

case_sensitive wrote: »

I got a very rough estimate of €10k to knock a wall between kitchen and dining and replace with steel supporting beam. Apparently the steel alone will be €3-4K.

Obviously I have not seen the job but 10k sounds very high! Is there a radiator/s on the wall that need moving? Any electrucs?

tradesman

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Is load bearing where the wall supports the roof or the jousts of the second floor?

Thats correct

c.p.w.g.w

tradesman wrote: »

Thats correct

I got a load bearing wall knocked, RSJ installed for 2,500*. Lovely job. Now the wall was only supporting jousts and not the roof. Wall was about 7-9 meters long. RSJ was 600€. I had been quoted 9,000 by someone else for the same job.

Job was checked by an engineer friend too, and he said it was perfect.

*Had other stuff done around the house that was included in that price, like plastering and fixing holes in partition walls etc

iregoyeah

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

I got a load bearing wall knocked, RSJ installed for 2,500*. Lovely job. Now the wall was only supporting jousts and not the roof. Wall was about 7-9 meters long. RSJ was 600€. I had been quoted 9,000 by someone else for the same job.

Job was checked by an engineer friend too, and he said it was perfect.

*Had other stuff done around the house that was included in that price, like plastering and fixing holes in partition walls etc

Hi c.p.w.g.w,

We're looking to get a load-bearing wall knocked down soon and was hoping you'd be able to let us know who did the work? Sounds like they did a great job.

Cheers

Whosasnoozie

In same boat here. Not sure if ours is load bearing or not though, how can u tell? Practically all our neighbours have it done, kitchen/dining room wall. If not a load bearing wall, can anyone recommend price range? No radiators or anything, and if any floorboard/floor tile damage, we have spare ones. In limerick/Clare area.
Checking our surveyors report, it says this wall would need 100mms beam.

(Don't mean to hijack post, was going to post the same question on here but saw this one was so recent!)

c.p.w.g.w

iregoyeah wrote: »

Hi c.p.w.g.w,

We're looking to get a load-bearing wall knocked down soon and was hoping you'd be able to let us know who did the work? Sounds like they did a great job.

Cheers

Where are you located?

c.p.w.g.w

Whosasnoozie wrote: »

In same boat here. Not sure if ours is load bearing or not though, how can u tell? Practically all our neighbours have it done, kitchen/dining room wall. If not a load bearing wall, can anyone recommend price range? No radiators or anything, and if any floorboard/floor tile damage, we have spare ones. In limerick/Clare area.
Checking our surveyors report, it says this wall would need 100mms beam.

(Don't mean to hijack post, was going to post the same question on here but saw this one was so recent!)

Checking the direction of the joist on the second floor, they run perpendicular to the floor boards.

So if the joists are perpendicular to the wall, it's very likely it's load bearing

iregoyeah

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Where are you located?

Dublin 15

Idonotknow

I’m the exact same, really want a wall knocked and a good few other bits but no idea where to start getting someone

BMW318iSEAuto

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

I got a load bearing wall knocked, RSJ installed for 2,500*. Lovely job. Now the wall was only supporting jousts and not the roof. Wall was about 7-9 meters long. RSJ was 600€. I had been quoted 9,000 by someone else for the same job.

Job was checked by an engineer friend too, and he said it was perfect.

*Had other stuff done around the house that was included in that price, like plastering and fixing holes in partition walls etc

Any chance you could provide contact details for whoever did the above job? I'm looking to put a new single door into a load bearing wall so assume it will just need knocking out and putting in a concrtete lintel. Job will be in Leopardstown. Cheers.

cr1266

Hi there, I just spotted this thread and was also wondering if you could share the contact details of the tradesman who knocked down the load-bearing wall for you?

Thank you so much!