The walls of bearing of load often run the perpendicular to the travel of the beams of floor or ceiling which rest on the wall. However, take guard of the walls of this parallel race with beams of floor. They can darken the posts or the columns hidden as two which I have in my own house. You can more or less even create an opening in a wall of bearing as of the openings are created in external walls for large windows or doors. A beam is placed above the new opening. The beam accepts the load of above and concentrates it on columns or posts with one or the other end of the beam. New the columns or posts which support your new beam must rest on the material full with bearing. The weight of the structure above the beam will then be transferred to a title from bottom from page from diffusion, a thickened beam of wafer, steel or out of wood, or probably another structural member below.

The classification by size of the beam and the posts which support the beam should be made by a professional. A structural engineer is trained to calculate the floor running, the loads of ceiling and roof and the possible additional loads caused by snow, the storage of attic, and the additional covers of roof. If you too small a beam, parts of your house can bend and even in extreme cases you break down. The fees to rent an engineer who can develop it your Re-support the plan tiny are compared with the cost to repair structural damage after a collapse.

There are several various manners of installing a new beam in a wall of bearing of load. Sometimes you can hide the beam in the ceiling above. This functions only if the size of beam does not exceed the size of the beams of floor or of ceiling and it no utility has there which must pass by the new place of beam. If you choose this method, the beams of floor/ceiling above are attached to the new beam by using clotheshangers of metal beam. The most common approach is to install the new beam below the beams of floor/ceiling.

To install the beam that you must build a provisional wall of support on each side of the wall you remove. Hold back inches of provisional walls to approximately 30 on each side of the old wall. This will give you the part to work. Be sure to establish your new beam and to upwards slip it against the old wall before you build your last Re-support the wall. If you do not do this, it is often impossible to enter the new beam the position (the voice of the experiment speaking……).

Just about each wall of bearing has utilities buried in him. It is not rare to find lines of provisioning and loss of piping, ducts heating and cooling, wire electric, and wire of low tension for telephones, bells, and intercoms. It is possible to replace these utilities in almost each case, however, it can be long, expensive, and requires the wide additional demolition. You can often see where these utilities write the bottom of the wall in a basement.

Sometimes, the wire and the pipes of passage of piping could be obvious in an attic as they rise to the top of the wall of bearing. Your best bet must use an electronic device makes specifically for this purpose. You can buy the devices held in the hand with a liquid crystal screen which will show you pins, hidden pipes, wire, conduits, and the work of conduit. These units put out of box “see” by the plaster, the dry partition and wood.

If you choose not to use a device like this, peel simply far the cover on a side of the wall and see what the hidden surprises find you. If you are lucky you will discover an old hidden capsule of time of “entreprenor”. I placed one of the latter on each one of my work. My capsules of time contain a newspaper of this day, rinsed out of the boxes of soda or the bottles, and other packing of package. It is recreation to read the old ads about the way in which you could once buy milk for 29 hundreds per gallon or a new car for $800!