Original 1959 floor plans

last year

I have the original floor plans from my 1959 brick ranch home. A few changes have been made from the orignal plan and it appears some things changed in the original build even, but none of the walls. The only wall change that has been made was the sliding door wall between the kitchen and the family room was removed in the mid 90’s. Can anyone tell me from these plans what are load bearing walls? We also have carpet throughout the entire house except the kitchen with plywood underlayment put down in 2003. Anyone want to take an educated guess at the potential flooring under the plywood? Exposed beams are in the basement is there a way I can determine this from that?

Would love recommendations on how to use our space better. We currently do not use the front living room or dining room at all. We have a basement the kids use as their living space and we also use the family room. We only have 3 bedrooms but have 4 children so all the kids share with each other (2 to a room). The storage room on the layout does not open to the garage it opens to the laundry room and does not have outside access. The stairs run the other direction down from what says is a closet is actually the top of the stairs. The fireplaces are not working.

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Lyn Nielson

last year

the flooring is likly just an underlayment/plywood for the carpet.

I would find a general contractor to look over your plans and answer your questions.

Code requirements in your area will dictate any changes or improvements.

Have the plans professionally framed. A Great decor item of interest.

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Lesly Blosser
Original Author
last year

The red are the items that were removed from the original floor plans the back are the walls that went up.
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PPF.
last year
Can anyone tell me from these plans what are load bearing walls?

No. You need someone local to visit your home and look at its structure.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
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I cannot read the plan but any time you need to know about load bearing walls the best is a structural engineer to tell you and aslo have solutions if you want to take walls down.I never trust a contractor I have never worked with to advise on this subject.
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BeverlyFLADeziner
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No one can do anything with your images.

Either take them to the local Staples or Office Depot and have them copied and converted to a jpeg

or spread them on a table beneath a really good light that casts NO shadows, hold them smooth with clips or books and shoot the photo from above. NO SHADOWS

Shoot the image in a large format so writing can be viewed.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
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To the OP if you want help we need a readable plan so either do anew one copying the one you have or try what Beverly advised. I do not think those ideas will work but worth a try . I would just redo the plans on new paer with dark lines and all the meaysrements clearly marked the post here in jpeg in a comment . Now DO NOT start another post all relating to this dealt with here in comments .
Jennifer Hogan
last year
Honestly, the only way to know for sure is to have someone who knows what they are doing determine if the wall is or is not load bearing.

I have a simple ranch home that I have been renovating. I had a few people out that do remodel work and everyone who came looked at my house and knew the one wall down the center of the house that followed the roof line was load bearing. Everyone felt that I would easily be able to open the doorway from the dining room to the living room that was perpendicular to that wall without any problems. Then I had an actual GC come out to do some work. He actually went down into the crawl space and told me everyone else was wrong. The wall between the dining room and living room is load bearing.

Better to pay someone to do an inspection and tell you the facts before going too far based on well made assumptions.
dan1888
last year
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Please post a clearer more readable layout. With the basement and the living and dining rooms you have a lot of space o work with.