Knocking down an L Shaped wall

[Jessesgirl13]

We've recently moved house and would like to knock down the wall between the kitchen and dining room. The wall is an L shape due to where the dining room door is (see image attached) , does this massively complicate things? We've taken off a bit of the plasterboard and can see that the corner post is brick ( circled yellow) but this is something we'd like to remove to fully open up the space.

Has anyone done anything like this before and can offer advice? Is it a structural engineer or a builder that I need to speak to?

We really just don't know where to start with this

If the walls are both supporting joists or walls upstairs, then yes, it will complicate. You will need to put in a steel (I would guess) from the back wall to tie in with the lounge wall and then another shorter steel tying into the first steel and the remaining part of the kitchen wall. Depending on what is above, the engineer could require a pillar at the corner that is being removed.

Yes. It's not a L shaped wall, it's two walls. One or other (if not both) will be supporting something.

Seek the advice of a structural engineer, they will tell you if its load bearing and recommend joints or beams to replace.

If you don’t know what you’re doing, DON’T TOUCH IT!
Contact a proper builder who will assess it to see if it’s a supporting wall.

Our builder managed to sort out the removal of a wall. It needed a steel put in as it was a supporting wall. This is not something to do your self. Get it checked by a good builder.

We'll definitely not being doing anything ourselves

We're pretty sure that the shorter wall may be supporting and the longer one not. It sounds like the best plan is to get a structural engineer around to advise on what we can do.

We removed a similar shaped wall and had a steel put in. Do you know which way your upstairs joists run. The supporting wall will be perpendicular to these so the steel will run this way.