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I'm looking for suggestions on how to utilize the space under a floor-to-be for storage. Most of my house is built over a crawlspace, there is a Den room down on grade that we'd like to raise to the level of the main house. It'd be nice to be able to utilize that, already dry space for storage...

nealtw, that 2nd paragraph sounds like what's happening here. Right now those knee struts come down onto the top plate between joists. Is it sufficient to either shorten & move them over 8" to where they would sit on top of the a joist? Or can I make a 2x4 brace that spans two joists at each...

Time for some x-ray vision! I've drawn the wall that's obviously load bearing in blue. The joists are yellow. The wall in red, is the one I want to take out. It would become a 13' span. The red wall has a double top plate with the three knee studs (indicated by arrows) sitting on top of it...

Hi thanks for the responses/ideas. CallMeVilla, the members I'm talking about are pictured in the *center* of that first image, further away from that POV. When I dug into the cellulose at their base that's where I took the 2nd image--the kitchen & LR drywall is the beige/brown on either side of...

Hey all, I'm planning to open up a kitchen wall and I'd like determine if it is a load bearing wall. The wall runs parallel to the ceiling joists, so I first assumed it would not be an issue. In the attic, there are vertical supports (pictured in the center of image1.jpg) that appear to support...