How to Remove a Load Bearing Wall

so we're just starting this renovation project um we're going to take down some walls in here we're going to take out the squirrel ceilings we're going to make this place an open concept and refinish the floors and bring it to the kitchen i'm looking forward to taking out some walls today and ripping this stuff out what we're going to do here is i'm going to take out all the baseboards we're going to keep the baseboards we're going to get rid of the stipple ceiling on the swirl ceilings and we're going to basically take out uh this wall over here and we're going to take out this wall over here we're gonna open up this partial wall all the way to here so the goal in here is to take down some walls make this place an open concept so a lot of people these days want to have open concept kitchens in order to have an open concept kitchen most of the time we'll have to remove a load bearing wall so what a load-bearing wall is it's a wall position most of the time at the center of the house the best way to know if your wall is load-bearing is to look in the basement and most of the time you'll find a steel beam or a wood beam or a beam of some sort underneath your load bearing wall so in this case here we do have a steel beam going in the basement right underneath it and this wall is basically taking the load from our roof trusses so sometimes it'll be taking the load from the second floor in this case it's taking a load from the roof justice of the house so in order to to remove a load-bearing wall first step is always to strip down all your drywall we strip down the drywall on the wall and we also strip down the drywall on each side of the load bearing wall on the ceiling for about two foot on each side once you've stripped down your drywall uh what we're going to do here is we're actually going to build a temporary wall on this side and we're going to build another wall on the other side of the of the wall we're taking down so the way we build the wall is we put two two by sixes on the ceiling and we put a double two by four post at every four foot that should be sufficient to take the load from the roof trusses temporarily while we remove the little bearing wall once we've removed the low bearing wall then our beam is going to go in so what we have over here is lvls so each one of these lvls are nine and a half inch wide by two inch thick right so for this uh house over here we're gonna put four lvls together and it's gonna be supported at each end by four two by fours um and then we're gonna attach all of our roof dresses to these lvls with uh joist hangers so once we have this done we'll be able to uh have an open concept it's going to be flat so it's going to be flush ceiling we're not going to see the beam in any way and it'll look really really nice [Music] so we're almost done putting all the insulation back into the ceiling after putting the beam in uh the beam is four nine and a half inch lvls and we have all of the uh the ceiling joists here that are installed with a joist hanger so we use joist hanger nails and put everything through joisting the the joist and to the beak the beam has two uh two nails at every foot give or take and uh it's also glued together and held back into the wall by four uh two by four at each end so we're gonna finish putting the last couple of insulation pieces in and then we're going to be able to move on to the next step which is going to be a vapor barrier so the vapor barrier actually seals off the attic and and the warm space which is in here so i installed little pieces of blocking between uh every joist just to make sure i have somewhere to put the acoustic seal in all right last piece in that's it insulation is back in and we're uh we're ready to move on to the next step afterwards we have the city of ottawa inspector coming in for a final inspection and once they give us the go-ahead we are ready to move ahead to the drywalling step and the drywallers are going to take away all of the swirled ceiling that you can see here and they are considered a bit dated now so what we're going to be doing is having our drywallers just smooth over do a smooth coat over the entire ceiling and then it's going to look a lot better with the modern pot light look that we're going for and then what we're also going to be doing is we're going to be removing this laminate flooring here and the hardwood that's here is is red oak so we're going to be getting more red oak and running that all the way through the kitchen so there's going to be basically hardwood covering the entire main floor and then what we're gonna be doing also is just taking off the remaining drywall and that's gonna be where the uh cabinets are going in and once the cabinets are in then we can finish basically the rest of the uh the kitchen so that means you know putting in the countertops and the backsplash and the light fixtures and all the finishing details we're excited

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Keywords: beam, how to, diy, homeimprovement, renovation, openconcept, home, remodel

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Length: 5min 51sec (351 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 15 2020