I have been toying with many different options of how to change the wall between my kitchen and living room for sometime now and I've almost got it, just few questions.
This is a 19' supporting wall that supports only the roof (no storage up there or anything). There is currently a 30" doorway in the wall. I would like move that doorway and widen it to approximately 78", as well as frame in a pass-thru window which is approximately 84" wide. This will leave me with a 36" wall on one side of the doorway and a ~120" wall on the other side with a ~84" pass-thru in it. This longer wall also terminates at a gable wall.
My concern is this: there is no beam or footings below the wall. I understand my header requirements (2x8's laminated with 1/2" ply) and how the wall ought to be framed, I am just concerned about concentrating the load - which is currently distributed across several joists - on to only a few.
Essentially, I am taking a 19' wall with a 30' doorway and relocating/widening that doorway to ~78", right? The pass-thru (if properly framed) should not effect the load distribution across those joists, correct? I could "tone down" the doorway to ~48" but there's a brick chimney that we'd like to expose, which requires that I frame the doorway to be ~78".
This is a 19' supporting wall that supports only the roof (no storage up there or anything). There is currently a 30" doorway in the wall. I would like move that doorway and widen it to approximately 78", as well as frame in a pass-thru window which is approximately 84" wide. This will leave me with a 36" wall on one side of the doorway and a ~120" wall on the other side with a ~84" pass-thru in it. This longer wall also terminates at a gable wall.
My concern is this: there is no beam or footings below the wall. I understand my header requirements (2x8's laminated with 1/2" ply) and how the wall ought to be framed, I am just concerned about concentrating the load - which is currently distributed across several joists - on to only a few.
Essentially, I am taking a 19' wall with a 30' doorway and relocating/widening that doorway to ~78", right? The pass-thru (if properly framed) should not effect the load distribution across those joists, correct? I could "tone down" the doorway to ~48" but there's a brick chimney that we'd like to expose, which requires that I frame the doorway to be ~78".