Frank
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I had to replace some subfloor underneath my hot water heater because the guy who had the house before me never fixed it and it was rotting.
I had to remove the wall to be able to get behind the hot water heater and fix the sub flooring also.
however when I was pulling the 4-ft wall out it made me start thinking was it load bearing because the nails were driven from the top and not the bottom which makes me think it was built when the house was built.
the short section of wall that I took out runs east and west. The main beam under the house that supports the whole house is built out of 2x8 and there's three of them staggered together but right in the middle I added another 2x8 and staggered it with lag bolts for more support.
The roof trusses and roof joists run east and west. It's a gable roof.
My question is "
was this wall a low bearing wall"?
The pictures are above/below.
I had to remove the wall to be able to get behind the hot water heater and fix the sub flooring also.
however when I was pulling the 4-ft wall out it made me start thinking was it load bearing because the nails were driven from the top and not the bottom which makes me think it was built when the house was built.
the short section of wall that I took out runs east and west. The main beam under the house that supports the whole house is built out of 2x8 and there's three of them staggered together but right in the middle I added another 2x8 and staggered it with lag bolts for more support.
The roof trusses and roof joists run east and west. It's a gable roof.
My question is "
was this wall a low bearing wall"?
The pictures are above/below.