bearing wall

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bearing wall - any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building

support - any device that bears the weight of another thing; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf"

wall - an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures"

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The building needed a street presence, but misplaced loading docks and switchgear room, an entry five feet above grade, insufficient elevators, excess stairwells and a 12-story bearing wall each stood in the way.

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Seattle architect Richard Fisher designed the queen-size bed-really just a box of 3/4-inch plywood-to fit between two support columns from a bearing wall opened up in a remodel.

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In examples where this central bearing wall was extended to the ridge line, only half the attic is exposed, and the central wall carries more of the roof load.

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A bearing wall carries weight from floors and/or roof above, while a partition wall merely separates two rooms.

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* Holes in bearing wall studs (exterior and interior walls that bear the weight of the roof and/or other stories above) may not exceed 40 percent of the width of the stud.

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Dunn--like others who spoke at the hearing--wants the code to prohibit future WTC-like structures (which consisted of a hollow tube bearing wall with long truss floors.)

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You have to know two things before tearing out a wall: First, you need to know whether it's a bearing wall, and second, what's inside it.

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And it's impossible to know which until you answer two questions: (1) Is it a bearing wall? and (2) What's inside the wall?

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Our wall was an easy one to remove: It wasn't a bearing wall and contained no plumbing, electrical or heating lines.

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The masonry bearing wall and concrete plank building has 126 units ranging in size from 450 to 850 square feet, providing studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments.

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A bearing wall is meant not only to divide rooms, but more importantly, support everything above it.

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Do-it-yourselfers usually have to calculate beam sizes for two types projects: deck building and installing a header for a larger window or door in a bearing wall Wig.