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Default Can a stud wall ever be load-bearing?

On 06/04/2019 21:30, wrote:
On Friday, 5 April 2019 12:39:27 UTC+1, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
I know this description probably doesn't help at all, but is it ever the
case that a paramount board stud wall can support a beam going across
the top of it? I mean, if it ever got wet, it would be catastrophic :-)


This isn't yours, is it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...herts-47838848

Owain


Looks like the lady of the house wanted full width bifold doors
downstairs to 'make the garden part of the house', judging by
all the acroprops along that huge steel beam.

Now she has full width bedrooms open to the garden too.