I was told by my home inspector that the way the roof of my house is made, it is fully supported by the perimeter walls of the house, hence all interior walls on the 2nd floor are not load bearing walls. Can someone confirm this before I start hacking away at some of the 2nd floor walls?
More specifically, I want to knock out the 2 walk-in closets in the master bedroom and create one bigger giant closet room. So the walls in question are the walls that currently encloses the 2 walk-in closets. I made some cuts on the drywall to have a look inside. Attached are 3 pictures:
-Picture #1 is picture of of the attic,
-Picture #2 is picture 2nd floor plan showing location of the walk-in closet I wish to knock out, alone with another sample cut in the drywall to show what is behind it
-Picture #3 is picture of another location where I've made another drywall cut to see what's inside
On picture #2, the black thing appears to be a vapour barrier (which I've accidentally slices as well when I cut out the drywall). If I can remove this wall, can I also remove the 2x4 that is wrapped with the black plastic?
On picture #3, I was expecting to see a hollow cavity when opened the drywall, instead it was filled in with lumber. This worried me, why would all that be there is it's not load bearing?
So from this, could someone help me? is this load-bearing or not? Thanks all!
More specifically, I want to knock out the 2 walk-in closets in the master bedroom and create one bigger giant closet room. So the walls in question are the walls that currently encloses the 2 walk-in closets. I made some cuts on the drywall to have a look inside. Attached are 3 pictures:
-Picture #1 is picture of of the attic,
-Picture #2 is picture 2nd floor plan showing location of the walk-in closet I wish to knock out, alone with another sample cut in the drywall to show what is behind it
-Picture #3 is picture of another location where I've made another drywall cut to see what's inside
On picture #2, the black thing appears to be a vapour barrier (which I've accidentally slices as well when I cut out the drywall). If I can remove this wall, can I also remove the 2x4 that is wrapped with the black plastic?
On picture #3, I was expecting to see a hollow cavity when opened the drywall, instead it was filled in with lumber. This worried me, why would all that be there is it's not load bearing?
So from this, could someone help me? is this load-bearing or not? Thanks all!
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