How to Demo and Remove a Wall
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2019
- Passionate renovators Ashlee & Cody walk through how to safely remove a wall in your home. #demoday
Difficulty Level: Advanced. If you are not 100% confident with removing a wall, Lowe's recommends that you hire a professional. Call 1-877-GO-LOWES or visit low.es/2qSOvBx to learn more about services through Lowe’s.
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Great job you guys. I felt like I could do this. You explained things simple and on a level that people who have no clue could follow. So appreciate this.
Load bearing walls aren’t always tied to truss system; you also need to see if joists terminate on top of your wall.
I used to work with a guy who bought a flipped house. After living there for a few years, he noticed the roof was starting to sag and pinned the blame on whoever flipped the house before him taking out a load baring wall without adding any support structures back.
Look forward to seeing more videos from you two. Thanks Lowe's, this was helpful for my project.
Thank you both for explaining what to use and how to educated your viewers in case a demo will occur. Very productive and instructive video.
Y’all did amazing! So informative and professional!!!
This is a very helpful video. Thanks Cody and Ashlee and thanks Lowe's.
Thank you guys for making this! I'm new to this so this was very helpful.
Great job Ashlee and B. Cody!
Awesome video! Thank You Ashlee and Cody!
Thanks! Great info in case we decide to remove any walls in our new house!
This video was spot on. Such great information.
This is my third video. Yous has understandable explanations. Interesting questions and answers. I like the many ways to remove the walls option. Thanks
Love love LOVE this video and lol forward to seeing a lot more from you.
I look forward to this group of videos from Lowes.
Great job Ashlee and B Cody...
I loved your video! Makes demo look easy.
Amazing video! I could have used this in my old house for sure!
simple clear & quick. thanks
More Ashlee & Cody, please!
Great video - super helpful and fun!
I had the same problem from my kitchen to my living room right across from each other. So I cut some of wall dividing the two rooms and working on a bar like countertop
Demo day is my favorite day!!!🔥 Great video you two!🎥😎
Paul Peck DrywallTube thank you!
Loved watching ashlee and cody on this video
*Just Ashlee.* I don't like men. 👬
Nicely done! Enjoyed it.
love the t-shirt 116 - great group!
Great info! Jeffrey says he prefers the sledgehammer method :)
Nice work guys!
Very helpful, thank you!
Thanks guys, really helpful
Nice!!! Great job guys!
New subscriber!
Love how well you guys explain things. Practically dumb proof. Explaing the hows and whys and whats is so helpful.
Thanks Im not sure if you have a video of how to add an addition to an exitisting house.
Im trying to add about a good 6/9 feet to make my kitchen wider and have room for a foyer. Itd be nice to see a video like this.
Awesome video guys!
Great info! Well done video very professional I’m removing a wall between two bedrooms it used to be the outside of the house. The other bedroom was added to it in the 80s. I wonder if it’s load baring? Guess I’ll have to see what you did and find out!
Greetings from Los Angeles
Great video, thanks!
Overall this was a solid basics video. Very helpful.
This was a great tutorial for demo!! I can’t wait to see what is next!
Loved the video! How did you get started fixing and flipping? Do you mentor others in different cities?
Nice videos. easy to follow.
Thank you, informative
Awesome tips guys! Hopefully we can see me from y'all. Not sure if y'all have a show but tal are new to me haha
Hey! What design ideas do you have for the top plate when removing the load bearing wall? We are removing a nice beam and looking for other ideas! Thank you!
Great job!
Great video!
Love this video! Great job :))
helpful, thanks!
Great job!!
Nice Work!
I look forward to seeing what you do with that top plate.
Did you ever find out? I’m at the point in my remodel where I either remove it or come up with something cool and unique. I prefer the latter.
Brandon Callahan Nope
Well produced video.
Really helpful video I learned a lot. Thanks ever so much You two make a cute couple too! Blessings
Thank you!
Love the video
Great job guys! I hope you guys get to do more videos like this!!!
Planning on expanding the closest one day.
God bless you guys thank you for your information the only thing that I really like about the construction from the era is that the smells from the kitchen will not go anywhere else.
If you have a good air ventilation unit it should significantly reduce this issue, otherwise even the walls, cupboards and ceiling gets stained over time from the steam carrying tiny food particles.
"0:29" and theres a *dern* wall in the way
Love the video! Really enjoyed the southern feel of it all. Especially in your words. Something I can relate to for sure!
Thank you for this video! It let me know that I will be hiring a contractor 🤣
Thank u for your video
Hi guys, great video.
I have a question maybe two.
I’m a single mother with champagne taste but on a serious beer budget.
I bought a 1940’s home and it’s less than 900sf.
It has shiplap that I’d like to reuse after I open the whole house up.
But all I have is a small crowbar a hammer and small saw.
Any advice?
Is it best to remove a section like yours, then jack up the floor to level it... then secure it with shims and then glue joists and lay down sub floor?
Awesome vid. time to take out a wall!
I do all my own construction I an thankful Lowe's have videos to show me the correct way to tackle my projects, Lowe's is where I purchase my building and other materials.
Geez, now I want to see how that space they were working on turns out.
What do you do with the wires if you don’t want to rip the ceiling down ???
Dude I love your shirt rep CHRIST!
How long does it normally take for you to remodel a space like this?
In India,we use testers which are very cheap and also used for putting scrools also. those are mechanical
thankyou
These tutorials always stop at the easy part. I want to see how you bring the mismatched floors together without redoing the entire floor, and also how do you repair the walls.
Sammy Lopez lopp
They’re going to have to redo the entire floor that’s all there is to it
You need a transition unless you want to redo the entire floor. On a seam that long, you may want a professional to do it to make sure it's perfectly straight.
Appreciate the replies, but I have an old house with original floors I want to keep so I would like to match them and not rip out $5000 worth of flooring for 20 square feet
@@sammylopez4644 what if you put in a new wood floor on the section you want to match and then sand and re-stain the whole thing together?
Can you flip the switch to the wall instead of flipping the breaker
116 I digg it!
Awesome can you show us how to widen a doorway?
I’m in the process of purchasing a house in Indiana. And I’m gonna need all the skill I can to help me reconstruct the house.
Good luck! I'm sure it will turn out great.
Step one: hire a structural engineer to tell you if it's load bearing.
Or do it yourself and save a lot of money!
Obviously if you had the money to do that you wouldn't be making a RUclips video.
Dont need to hire anyone to tell u if the wall is loadbearing unless youre lazy or a complete moron
Or if you were the one to build the house either 1 just remember or 2 look for the blueprints of the house
Just take the wall out and gage how the house responds. You’ll easily be able to tell if it’s load bearing or not.
helpful, cuz i gotta tear down a wall next to my room, and this will be very helpful
Great video . Can you be hired to do similar work in a home?
That 116 shirt though ;)
learned so much from this video. I thought my life is doomed with the stupid wall in my house.
how do you find out if a basement wall is a load bearing wall?
Glad to have my dad, removing walls made from anything but wood and dry wall is much less intuitive.
What yall do with the electrical
3:22 - Haha ... got you! You are putting in the reciprocating saw blade upside-down. Ca you do that? Mine won't do that.
justgivemethetruth I was wondering if anyone else caught that
Yes it's made to go either way. The direction shown at 3:22 is best if you are trying to cut something flush against a stud or wall, therefore your hand won't get in the way.
I saw that too
Mine can go either way....
So i have a closet i want to get rid of in a L shaped room and its the closet thats making it l shaped but it has the breaker on the other side, is there a way to put the breaker in another room
The ceiling joist may be over spaned now. An engineer may determine that the existing joist may need to be sistered to meet code. You can check the spam tables yourself and or take a carpenter class at your local college
How much does this cost? If it’s a load bearing one
Wow. nice Video you Guys made there :) But what happens to the floor next to the kitchen ? It looks.... open ?! :D
Greetings from Germany, Michelle
Don't worry! That's next on the list 😉
I got one of these in my basement i'm lookin to take down so i can fit a pool table better
Do you need permit for this
Great video! 116
she was standing on a box at the end wasn't she? That's adorable
One serious omission: What to do with outlets? Virtually all walls have receptacle outlets with a "goes into" cable and a "goes out to" cable.
What if the wall you want to demolish has a vent?
How do you know if it's load bearing on a 2 story home with a concrete slab foundation
How? Wouldn't you have continuous studs from the floor up THROUGH the bottom storey's ceiling and up TO the top storey's ceiling that has ceiling joists and maybe braces to the roof on it?
What about in a down stairs bedroom?
What about messing up with asbestos? If it was built in the 60's isn't that a concern?
I wish you had come back to the light switch and what to do with it!
I subbed
How do I do if it is a loadbearing wall I want to make my bathroom bigger and there’s a wall on the outside but there’s a 6 x 6 they’re running along the top and coming down
you don’t
If only it was that easy. Some of my walls had 4 - 5 layers.