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So we had a few friends of ours take a look at it. One works as a project manager at an architectural engineering firm. And another is a construction supervisor. Right off the bat both have told us it wasn't load bearing. Also, the seller of the apartment has also told us that the upstairs...

Thanks again nealtw. I've been looking around for a structural engineer to come look at it.

Here's a picture of the wall and column before it was knocked down. You can see the holes that the contractor put in them to poke around.

Hi everybody, thanks for the quick replies! I'll try to answer some of your questions, and I do appreciate all the help! mudmixer: It's a coop apartment that we bought. We've been told by the building manager that those are load bearing, but the contractors were supposed to be very...

Hi City-Data / Architecture forum, We're currently in the process of renovating our apartment, but we're concerned whether a wall was load bearing. We originally wanted to open up the kitchen, but was told the wall we wanted to remove was load bearing. Our contractor then came in and...