On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:29:57 -0400, knuttle
wrote:

On 8/12/2020 8:31 PM, swalker wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 22:25:17 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:


Greetings

I'm intending to add a two foot square window to a shed which is
being converted into shop space. The wall is load bearing, there is a
loft and the joist holding that up are attached to the studs I'll have
to cut.
So, header to spread the load. I'm reading about they need to be
wide (tall) enough: And they run from six to 10".

Recommendations?

Sooner or later someone is going to tell you to get an engineer to
look at it.

Somewhere in this thread it the OP said that the shed was about 10'X10'.

At that size what ever he uses for a header should be OK.

If we were talking about shed twice the size, then load stress and load
bearing walls would obviously need to be consider as there is a lot more
weight on the side wall.

I forget if he said the shed was permanent, ie water electricity, on a
foundation or other; but in our area the only way the building inspector
becomes involved is if the shed is greater the 10'X12' and permanent.
He still doesnt want to walk into the shed one morning to find
everything that was in the loft yesteray is now somwhere between where
the loft WAS and the floor - - - - or the siding has popped off the
one wall and everything has slid out the end to the ground below, or
is dangling somewhere between.

Somewhere between full code compliance and a total disaster, things
need to be done to SOME sort of a "standard". Joists nailed to the
studs of a "balloon framed" building without some sort of support
heping support the load is not a terribly good idea. The last old
balloon framed building I saw stripped to the walls had blocking of
some sort between the studs where the joists were supported. That was
about 10 or 15 years ago up in Sault St Marie - and the studs were
FULL 2X6 fir or hemlock old growth lumber, and harderthan the hubs of
hell!! Picture straight grain fir lumber 20 feet long,on 12 inch
centers all around a 20X30 ft house, and on the gable ends, up to 36
feet for the peak of the gable - - - -. The place was likely worth
almost as much for the recycled lumber as it was as a house in"The
SOO" back then -- -