UKMy house was built in the 1950s and the structure in question appears to have originally been an outhouse and coal shed with a passageway between them and the house. At some point, the dividing wall was knocked through to create one room and a wooden roof placed over the top of the passage to create a semi-sealed room (a wooden wall serves at the rear of the passage).What remains is the jagged bricks of the old wall including a column you can see in this picture and from another angle this picture Yes there are electrics in there, no it's probably not safe :(I'm told that the roof was likely cast on site as one big slab with steel reinforcement and with 3 points of contact isn't going anywhere. This was by a builder who gave it a 5-minute once-over, gave me a quote, and was never heard from again. But I worry about that concrete lintel above the old doorways. Is that brick column supporting it? Are the wooden door frames for that matter?Thanks for any advice. via /r/DIY http://ift.tt/2sn1bB8
