51 wrote:
Hi all.
I have half a plan to open up a wall between the lounge and dining
room to install french doors or similair.
Some of you may remember how I once descibed my ground level floating
floors being supported on 3" deep joists with a sleeper wall.
So what precautions should I use to avoid buggering up the floors if I
use props to support the wall before I install a lintel?

I'm not sure if the wall is single or double brick.
The wall is shown here as a - b www.tally-mo.com

Thanks.

Arthur

You don't know if it's single or double brick? - have you not tried using a
tape measure? - about 5 inch is a single wall and about 10 inch is a double
wall.

Either way, this wall is a supporting wall, it looks like it's carrying the
wall seperating bedrooms and also carrying floor joists upstairs so it will
need substantial support...a few questions...
1) what width opening are you aiming for?
2) how high will the opening be? - are yoiu going all the way up to the
ceiling or is it to be similar to a wide door opening?
3) who is doing the work?