Home Plans And Home Designs - How to detremine a Loading bearing wall

Hello all,

I hope this is the right place to post this. I don't know anything about construction, specifically load-bearing walls and where there are placed. The closet in my room is actually 2 small closets separated by a 5 inch width wall. I don't even know if this would be called a wall, but Could it be a load-bearing wall by any chance? If I remove the drywall, is there a way I could tell?


Thanks.

Hi 1sttime_owner and welcome to the Forums

For your own safety (and your family's), let me explain some issues, starting with the building codes
As we all know, there are building codes, but each state / province has its own version / adaptation. An Architect, Engineer, etc must elaborate the interpretation / application of the Building codes, calculation of structures and foundations, for each project, etc. Not only for the technical understanding of these issues, but for the liability.
An advice regarding a technical subject (independent if you are paid for this advice or not) implies liability.
Follow a structural advice provided through Internet is DANGEROUS and my advice is to avoid this
Structures / materials are quite different depending the characteristics of the project, load, soil / topography, wind conditions and seismic calculations.
Certainly, if you don't know these answers or as you are stating you don't know about construction, then it is not a DIY task so I'd recommend a consultation with an structural engineer in order to analyze the whole situation

This is a frequent question in the forums. Every time the answer is the same. Thus, I am requesting you, pmgca, to please make this excellent post a Sticky in this forum and, most definitely in the Walls Forum. At least, then, we can refer folks to the Sticky and not have to type the same answer over and over. Thank you, pmgca!

Thank you, pmgca. I'll try to get advise from a more appropriate source.