About a year and a half ago we had a wall knocked down in our house to change the teeny kitchen into a kitchen diner. The builder had the RSJ ready to go, however when the wall came down, he noticed that the wall was not supporting anything. The wall was running alongside the joist above and the wall upstairs, that ran in the same direction, was not directly above it, instead about a metre in front. (Incidentally the upstairs wall running in the same direction fell down with the force of the downstairs wall being knocked through so was rebuilt)
He concluded that we didn't need the steel RSJ so didn't use it in the end and said the supporting walls were the ones running perpendicular (the ones separating the 2 houses of our semi).
Anyway, I don't know whether it's psychological and ridiculous because the house is still standing 18 months later, but I can't stop feeling like the house is no longer structurally sound. I worry about taking too much stuff upstairs and making it too heavy! I lie in bed at night feeling like we could go through the floor any second. Please help me put my mind at rest.
Ps. We applied for building control within their 48hr notice period, however they did not check our particular request. About a month ago they wrote, following up the application to ask if we still wanted to go through with it.
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tooglamtogiveadamn · 20/01/2017 23:23
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