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Hey all. Renovating the master bath and want to demo out the majority of a partial wall that runs parallel underneath a single joist.
The way the wall is constructed makes me think it is load bearing but everything else around its positioning in the house makes me think otherwise. The opening you see in the middle of the wall was where a shower window was. I think they did all this framing just to accommodate the window frame and nothing else.
It runs parallel with joists
It is a partial wall
it is adjacent and perpendicular to an exterior wall
there is no wall or anything of significant weight above it upstairs (Master Bath is 1st floor)
What is sitting on the floor directly above the proposed wall wanting to be removed ? Stair landings, huge bath tub ? One also has to watch for structures like dormer walls or intersecting roofs where their load may bear down on a interior wall on the above story.
What is sitting on the floor directly above the proposed wall wanting to be removed ? Stair landings, huge bath tub ? One also has to watch for structures like dormer walls or intersecting roofs where their load may bear down on a interior wall on the above story.
Directly above is a bedroom. Nothing of significance there.
I do not think it is load bearing as it is installed on the underside of your joist which spans between load bearing walls at its ends; it is just heavy framing for what used to be the shower window.
It's either load-bearing or way over-engineered, but there's not remotely enough context to say.
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