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Can a stud wall ever be load-bearing?
I doubt it, but I want to saw a big hole in one, so I need to ask. Our
stairs go up the middle of the house, at 90 degrees to all the beams. There is a breeze block wall on one side, and a stud wall on the other, which continues down into the kitchen. I'd like to open up the space under the stairs a bit by removing a big chunk of the stud wall. In the void, above this wall is a larger-than-the-others beam at 90 degrees to all the others, and fastened to another very large one in the region of the top of the stairs by a metal bracket. The beams in one upstairs room are similarly fastened to this first large beam, so they are aligned with all the others. I'm assuming that the paramount (I think it is called) board, and the vertical bits of wood that hold it in place (about an inch and a half square section) are not supporting this large beam; but before I start sawing through it all, I'd like to hear some opinions :-) 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 :-) |
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