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Well the closet wall is gone and the house is still standing. I took your suggestion and added two full length 2x4's and placed them over 5 joist and secured each brace to it. I don't think this is going anywhere now. Thank you again for your help!

The angle brace in the background in picture 7 was the brace that is on top of the closet. The one in the front is a single brace ( see picture). The brace above the closet is the only brace that forms a V. All of the other braces are just to either the right or left side and are attached to a...

I removed the remaining drywall off the closet walls and the ceiling. Decided to put up one full piece of drywall. I braced the flat beam (with the blue X) with two 2x4's between the joist from the top. This flat beam or 2x4 only extends about 1inch further in the front and in the back it goes...

Awesome! Thanks so much. Great suggestions!

Here are some more pictures. It looks like these are the Purlin bracing which hold the strong back but I'm not sure since Purlin bracing should be attached to joist and are straight.

Here is a picture from above.The big vertical flat piece of beam has two other 2x4's resting on it which go left and right to a big beam holding the roof and the closet door is the horizontal part in the bottom of the picture. This flat piece of beam runs parallel with the joist.

The roof rafters are parallel with the ceiling joist and perpendicular to the beefy header.

Hi everyone! I'm still in the process of renovation my staircase. So I removed the up stairs back wall from the small closet. I left the front and part of the closet for safety reasons. After looking at the framing I'm not sure if I can remove the closet front. It has two 2x4's on top of a big...

I guess I should have removed ALL of the drywall to begin with. My bad! Thanks guys for looking at the pictures and helping me solve this beam puzzle.

Here is the end of the half wall

i actually went ahead and remove the drywall from the from part of the half wall and discovered that this beam is only sitting on one 2x4 that goes down to the crawl space and sits on a footing

Correct. It's a split level. When you come into the front door you step on the support structure from the last few pictures. This is the entry way it's 4 ft above ground. The entry way is center level and the half wall is on that level. To the left is the set of stairs going down and right side...

I think maybe this beam is supporting the halfwall above it? I don't know:confused:

I really appreciate you guys helping me with this. Here is another picture of the downstairs entry support structure. The horizontal beam that is attached to the 2x4 that goes all the way up in the half wall is not the same beam as the one in the half wall I want to cut. This beam is another...