A Wall Removal And Other June 2023 Expenses | Frugal Woods Blog

A menace wall in our home is gone! Longtime readers may recall that we’ve embarked on a slow, years-long renovation process, which we kicked off with a wall removal.

This erstwhile wall awkwardly divided the kitchen and dining room from the rest of the downstairs and, to make matters worse, had a weird, low archway door for egressing. Not great. Everyone who came into our home said, “why do you think they put a wall there?”

I will tell you why.

When our house was built–circa 1991–the builders utilized this wall for the following fairly crucial items:

1. Load-bearing. It supports both the floor of the second story and also, a large amount of the roof load at intersecting roof angles (which means it takes a lot of snow load).
   
   
   
   1. They put the archway in to conceal the triple-ply 2×12 header
   
   
   
   


2. Plumbing.

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