Help With Remodel Planning

Hi All, I am in the process of closing on a house that I plan to remodel. We are looking to gut and redo most of the first floor. ​ The first floor contains a kitchen, powder room, living room, dining room, along with a breezeway between the garage and house that was framed-in to create another interior space. The breezeway remodel was done very poorly, we will have to knock down the walls and reframe as well as raise the slab to match the elevation of the rest of the first floor. we would like to add a gas fire place on one wall and a sliding door on the other of the new breezeway. Our biggest projects are going to be completely redoing the kitchen, flooring through out, breezeway renovations as mentioned above, and eliminating the wall between the kitchen and breeze way (see existing and new floor plans attached). ​ Opening the wall between the breezeway and kitchen is, as I see it, our biggest challenge. This was formerly an exterior wall and supports the second floor. I believe it is a load bearing and shear wall. however, we do not have existing house plans. Where do I start to get engineered plans for an existing house? Are we going to need to increase the footing size if we put a glulam beam with shear panels on either side of the opening? Do you build a temp supporting wall to carry the load from second floor, while installing the glulam and shear panels? ​ A couple of misc questions: Could we embed a gas line in the new raised slab and stub up at the fireplace or will we have to sawcut and route under slab? Similar question with electrical to the island, do you have to sawcut the slab and run under slab or is there an easier way to get electrical to an island? how difficult would it be to tie in the drainage from the new laundry room to the septic tank(located in the front of the entry door)? Thanks for the help! Processing img frlkytvwxf721... Processing img cdjxbvvwxf721... submitted by /u/wjw21 [link] [comments]

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