Recent content by Greenturd88

After some discussion about time and cost with my old lady we might just do something like this. Any suggestions then for a header? Maybe 2 2x8s? http://www.simplicityinthesouth.com/2013/08/knocking-down-a-wall-and-opening-up-the-kitchen.html

Ok so then my next question would be since one side of the existing opening is the exterior wall this means the roof line is close to the ceiling. What do you do then? Cut the beam on an angle to fit?

It's load bearing for sure. Looking at the wall and the ceiling joists run north and south the wall I would like to open more runs east to west

Hello everyone new hear and have a question(obviously). So I recently bought this house. It's just over 900sqft ranch and I wanted to take a wall down further from the living room to the kitchen. Right now there is about a 7ish ft opening and I wanted to take it back another about 5ft. My roof...