Walls and Ceilings - Loadbearing Walls: removal of......

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11-21-00, 09:47 AM
glad I found you all. Hey please inform me about taking out loadbearing walls. What can be or needs to be used to suport the roof and what would be the easiest way to take sown the wall? Thanks for your support.


11-21-00, 08:33 PM
Hold Everything, Stop. Do not, repeat do not remove that wall unless you want your roof on the floor of your house. The load bearing wall holds up your trusses and roof.
You must follow this procedure. First draw a sketch of the foor plan of your house, showing the wall you want to remove. Now go to your building permit dept and discuss this with them. They and only they can adequately tell you what to do. They are there, we are not. This is big bad business, and will require engineered beams to hold your roof up if you do take the wall out.

11-21-00, 10:19 PM
Jack,

Engineered beam? He don't need no stinkin engineered beam! He might go for that primer red, heavy metal art deco 10 inch I-beam look. Might even like that new vent hole in the side of the house that he'll be sliding that new beam in through. Don C.


12-02-00, 08:21 PM
in response to how you support the roof you can build a shoring wall 2 ft out making sure the studs are stacked over floor joist or rent whats called a house jack-how large of a span are you looking for laminated beams 12 inches wide cost only 10 plf and are incredibly strong but verify this with local building codes-josh