The balcony of the living room is usually connected to the living room, with a door in the middle to separate it. In fact, many friends will wonder why there is this door? Wouldn't it be more spacious and brighter without this door? In fact, the addition of this door is based on the requirements of our national energy conservation regulations. However, due to the appearance of this door, the balcony has door stacks on both sides. Now a friend asked this question: If the balcony in the living room does not have a door, is it okay to smash the door stacks on both sides of the balcony?
Some balconies are equipped with sliding doors with door stacks on both sides (scientific name is "pass"); some balconies are equipped with flat doors, not only with the pass, but also with a small wall below▼
Whether it is a pass or a wall, never smash it - I thank you for your neighbors upstairs and downstairs, and I also thank you for your family! Whether it is a pass or a wall, they play an important role, which is called "counterweight". Let me briefly talk about the role of counterweight walls. Counterweight walls
Many people only know that load-bearing walls cannot be demolished, and beams and columns cannot be demolished - because they bear direct force, and if they are demolished, the structure of the house will be damaged immediately. But few owners have heard that counterweight walls are also walls that are expressly prohibited from being demolished.
Counterweight wall is also called "shear wall". As the name suggests, it acts like scissors - it is very laborious to explain. I try to make it easy to understand so that people with no architectural knowledge can Understand.
We can use a few pairs of chopsticks to explain:
In the above picture, we can understand the chopsticks placed horizontally as a load-bearing wall, and the chopsticks placed vertically as the floor.
We only look at the top chopstick (hereinafter referred to as "Chopstick 1"): At this time, both ends of Chopstick 1 are suspended, like a seesaw. If you press down hard on one end of chopstick 1 at this time, the chopstick will tilt - one end of chopstick 1 is the balcony, and the other end is the room adjacent to the balcony.
But if we first press hard where the two chopsticks meet, and then press down hard on the other end, we find that the chopstick is not so easy to tilt:
This When we hold down, the place where the two chopsticks meet is the position of the shear wall. The chopsticks in two directions are like two blades, and the place where they are pressed is a bearing - the two parts together form the shape of a scissors - this is the origin of the name "shear wall".
In practical applications, since there is no load-bearing wall under the balcony, theoretically it does not have any load-bearing capacity. The reason why the balcony can bear load is entirely because the shear wall holds down the seesaw. Conclusion
As for whether it is better to smash the door if there is no door on the balcony of the living room, my personal answer is that it is not a question of whether it is good or not, but that it is not allowed to be smashed at all. I hope my answer can be helpful to everyone! Best wishes! If you have different opinions or better solutions, you are welcome to share them so that we can communicate, discuss and learn together, thank you all!