hoefla-
No just a big old house.
We used to live in a farmhouse thats ground floor rooms dated from approx 1560, many additions and changes, mostly in 1750-1800 region. Ground floor walls were jumbo. Back then they used to use the BIG ASS ROCK foundation method*
*Find biggest rock possible to move with a team of humans and horses. Drag big ass rock until next to other big ass rocks in a sort of box shape. Leave big ass rocks to sink into ground over a season or two. Then start building a house on top of them. Kinda funny that Machu Pichu is less old than our crusty old farmhouse was. Don't live there anymore, spend 7 years on that pile and never got finished, endless work and then the neighbouring two farms both sold out to developers so ended up surrounded on nearly 3 sides by tiny box houses right against boundary with constant tiny box house assholes being assholes. Now live in a moderately dense area of city and its honestly the quietest place I've ever lived.
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BrickMan
Rightly so.
Mate has a monster house from early C19th, and partner wanted a more open plan kitchen. For years everyone told them it couldn't be done, then someone somewhere suggested this company that could take out the wall and install a steel instead.
I know this house, and I know this wall, its 4' thick or more, right in centre of house on ground floor, literally THE most central, heaviest, chunkiest wall in the whole place with 2 further full floors on top of it, and 1st swing of staircase joists on the corner of it. Not something to mess with.
Yup, got this magical company in to do it. And they've been living in a house that very closely resembles the game of pick up sticks ever since. Full internal and external bracing to hold onto what hasn't already moved drastically, become a bit of a legal battle, but ultimately the poor house is screwed.