How to Tell If Your Wall Is Load Bearing and How to Remove It!
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- In this video I show you how to tell if your wall is load bearing and then I show you how to remove it. If you ever have any doubts about changing the structure of your house like this, do not hesitate to look for help from a professional.
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This is the most detailed explanation I've been able to find about taking a load-bearing wall out to someone with no deep knowledge of construction. I appreciate your effort and knowledge
The animations/drawings were great. I'm less confused than before but still confused. It's not you though, it's me xD
Haha I get it. Thanks for letting me know about the animations, wanted to try something new and was hoping it would help with the explanation. Thanks for watching!
Same. I need to watch and read a ton more before I ruin my house.
I'm a girl, who enjoys carpentry. I understand, but could never explain it the way you did! I always enjoy your videos.
This was a great video. major key: beware of previous renos where they may have weakened the structure.
Yes, nice and safe transfer of weight, I did this to my home also, 25 yrs ago now, I see nothing has changed in the process. It's scary but not hard, you did an excellent example. Thank you for sharing, I don't miss an episode.
You are such a good teacher. I learn a lot by listening to your channel, thank you.....Hugs
Wow great explanation ! Lovely project and execution from a residential engineer :)
It is very detailed and easy to understand. Thank you!!❤
Every time I come across one of your videos I enjoy how well done, informative, and concise it is.
This process is scary but one of the most rewarding, in my opinion. It makes such a drastic change to the space!
A great video. I hope my hubby understands as we want to remove the bulk head in our tiny kitchen
Great job on the how to. Im going to watch it 40 times and then make it happen.
Thank you. You answered the question I asked a long time ago. I love your videos. Easy to follow and understand. Plus your videos aren't of some fancy house. Just normal that needed TLC. The wall I want out is by the chimney. Not sure if I can.
I don't understand much about building but I totally trust you, you are a really good source of information. Please come fix my house (pretty please).
This is one of the best explanation I have seen on RUclips. Thank you for all your effort and talent to make the concept so easy for us to understand.
Hey Jay! Thank you for the comment and thanks for watching! 😃
Wow, the animations really helped out! I'm going to have to watch this video more than once for me to grasp it all, lol. Though you did a great job explaining everything.
I will show this video to the man who is helping me. I want to remove the wall between the kitchen and dining room. Thank you!!!
Very helpful. I knew most of this, but you did a good job explaining
Here in South Florida, everything is slab on grade. Gable roofs are not preferred, to much wind load. Hip roofs are better. Great video.
Where the condo collapsed almost 2 months ago.
@@iphone5s548 I’m about 30 miles north of that.
That helped ease my concerns about moving a wall out 4 ft so I can enlarge my bathroom. Moving the wall would actually line up with the supporting load bearing wall. Thank you!
You’re an excellent teacher! I’m very grateful……I get it now. Thank you
New subscriber from Denmark. Keep up the good work. Love your videos.
Thanks, Jennifer!
Oh wow your awesome. Didn’t understand most of it but looked thorough and I feel safe and I don’t even live there.
Thank you very informative. The issue that I have is I have drywall covering my beams.
Couldn't have found a better video!!!! Great info 😊
So I have to ask, what is the next big renovation project that you and Mrs Fixer have planned?
This is very informative. I removed the header above my exterior window to make the window larger. I guess that was a load bearing header?
Very helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Great looking house! Major props.
Here in the UK, timber and metal framed housing has become more popular, especially for factory built panels and completed units with all services, decs, flooring and white goods installed.
However the external walls still tend to be brick, block, cavity and rendered block work. Newer techniques, such as structural frame with rain screen cladding are becoming more common, especially for apartments. Not an exhaustive list, but shows some of the differences, re US and UK.
Another difference is beams and window door lintels, we tend to use steel beams and metal or concrete lintels. Modern composite beams, wood and mechanical fixings are also used, often by large developers.
One problem I saw in the US was the rapid deterioration of the external cladding, Baltimore was pretty bad, weather there doesn't help.
Sorry for the long ramble, new to your channel, good lectures, and you show all the crappy part of building, breathing in other people's years of dust.
Very clear on what you said now just wanted to know if it possible to use Aluminum on top of the attic to give it some support when it rains..just thinking not sure.
Thanks very helpful
Yes love the drawings!
Thank you that was so informative! I appreciate you taking time to share all this! ✨💖✨
Awesome video ! can you please point me to the company that sent you the measurements for the beams. Thanks
Great video, thank you.
Very helpful video.
Thank you 👍🏻
Great photo and great explaination .
Thanks, I have a wall with a door cut out leading to a laundry room and don't know if it's load bearing or not.
Another nice detailed, educational video.
But, honestly, who and why would one dislike a video like this? Ugh...
What a great video! Thanks for all the information.
Thank u
So is a gable end load bearing? I watched twice but missed if you mentioned it.
Great job man
Appreciate this video. House I'm looking at has a horrible 3 bed layout upstairs. I want to move some walls around and make it a 2 bed. This gave my some confidence and ideas on how it can be done safely. Hopefully the engineering fees aren't too high. I've got a civil degree but no PE stamp.
Just need to figure out the load transfer into the foundation/footing now
thanks
Thank you ! How much did it cost for you to do it yourself vs having to pay someone ?
Great video. Only part that could have been said more clearly was at 11:46 when the support of the LVL to the foundation was explained. Here, the video seems to have jumped down to the basement level to show the foundation while the new LVL installed was done on the floor above so it was confusing what we were looking at initially. Great video otherwise-thanks.
Does this apply to doublewide mobile homes?
Got a bungalow home a bathroom that we are not clear is a bearing or unbearing ceiling beam that runs above the tubs outter edge in ceiling. We want to remove it and put a fan in there but aren't sure. Looks like a support beam, maybe even a duct how can we tell?
Thanks for this video
No problem! Thanks for watching!!
Loving the videos. Is the calculation form you show at 8:30 commercially available or is that something the engineer created?
Hey! That is the print out I got from the engineer. Some lumber yards have an engineer in house so you can call around and ask if they have one. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching!
Thankyou
Hope the video helped! Thanks for watching!
Thnx
Gracias senor
👍 Thanks for watching!
Nice video and very informative. New subscriber btw. I need some suggestions and advice. I need to replace a 20ft span from the gable corner to just past my front door, also the sheathing on the roof in that same span needs replaced, the house is 30ftW x 52ftL... I know my exterior wall is load bearing. What I'm trying to figure out how to support the trusses to replace the wall.
Hi Serena. Unfortunately it is hard to say without actually being there and seeing it. This sounds like something you will want to have a qualified person take a look at and potentially an engineer. Sorry I couldn't help more. Thanks for watching!
@@TheFixerHomeRepair Well I had my boss come look at it, he's a General Contractor, I'm mainly a roofer/ framer. What we did was removed the shingles and sheathing ( it needed replacing anyways) removed the siding on the gable end wall, ran a LVL underneath the trusses and supported the LVL with Jack posts . Worked out great plenty of support to do what I needed to do. I'm in the process of framing my new wall 102 inches H x 16ftL ... It's taking me a little longer than I'd like ( because I can only work on it when I get off and on the weekend) but I appreciate your response like said I'm a new subscriber 👍
If the people who built these old houses went by todays standards (roof trusses, 16 on center, joists no smaller than 2X8, joist hangers, etc) the houses would easily last a few hundred years with minimal issues
I have "attitudinal walls" that bare a heavy load from all the emotional experiences in my life. How can I remove them safely?
You can never remove them. Just learn to deal with them.
@@TheFixerHomeRepair Thanks!...this is a great answer to a question I asked on behalf of my daughter, and I will let her know!...She used the phrase "load bearing" about emotional topics...so I decided to find an answer on a construction-oriented channel.
Hi, I have a question, any tips on how I can recognise which of my walls are loadbearing? All the inside walls are made of bricks… :(
I would assume the material of the wall doesn’t matter. The principals of how a house is engineered should still apply ah he explained in the video.
I will never remove a wall but if I do need to at least I can tell the workers I know how to check if it is load bearing.
My house is 100 years old and I have a two-story house with an attic which would be three so this didn't help me. But great content
What state are you located in?
Hey! I am in Massachusetts
You need insulation
I just hack it out with the sawzall and hope for the best
First?
Thank you! Great informative video.