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Replace Load Bearing Wall With BeamFrom: mconcordia@myeastern.com
Category: Structural
Remote Name: 66.212.198.197
Date: 30 Oct 2002
Time: 09:34 PM
CommentsMy home is a 2 story colonial and I'm thinking about removing a load bearing wall between the kitchen and TV room (1st floor). The span would be approximately 12' (there is a doorway already within this span). One end of the beam would meet with an exterior wall which supports the roof overhang (i.e. not the gable end of the roof). The rooms above this are bedrooms and being in eastern CT, I'm sure there are snow loads to account for. The upstairs square footage supported by this wall is approximately 400 sqf. The floor joists for the 1st and 2nd floors are 2 x 10's, 16" O.C. and the beam in the basement directly below the subject wall is made of 3 - 2 x 10's nailed together and supported with columns with max span of 8'2" between columns. The house was built in 1975 and has total (heated) square footage, including basement, of roughly 2,000 sqft. I realize this isn't a complete picture of the loading and I do plan to hire a structural Engineer to specify a beam when I'm ready to go but I'm curious as to an approximate beam size I'd be looking at here. Also, would one of the Georgia-Pacific wide flange wood I-beams be good for such an application?
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