I can't really help you with that but what normally happens I think is people hire an autocad draft person to come in a create the drawings you need for the house. He/she will give you all the elevations and floor plans you need to submit renovation plans to your architect/engineer/city of calgary. Load bearing walls will be apparent in these drawings. And from there your architect/engineer will explain how to do what you want and then create the reno drawings at much less cost. It's definitely cheaper then having an architect do them but obviously more expensive than getting the original plans from 1987 some how. Interested to see if there is a way to dig up old plans.
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