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Posted by MiamiCuse on August 21, 2007, 12:06 am
>> I have two rooms I like to open up but there is a load bearing wall in
>> between. I don't want to mess with the ceiling truss and make things any
>> more complicated so I think I will tear the wall down and in it's place I
>> will do a floor to ceiling open shelf system. Are there any special
>> considerations I need to make other than I need to get trim grade 8 feet
>> tall 2x12s which is quite expensive.
>>
>> I just space them 16" apart like they are wall studs right?
>
> Before you do anything you need to determine exactly what that wall
> does for the truss. It may do nothing it may be critical. You also
> need to determine if that wall is providing racking resistance (taking
> the lateral loads - which can be significant in high wind areas...like
> Miami). Neither of those things can be determined without looking at
> it.
>
> If it does nothing, you can take it down and do whatever you like. If
> it is structural, and you want to build a bookcase support, I would
> think that you'd want to space such deep supports farther apart. That
> would require a smaller beam to pick up the loads from the trusses.
>
> R
>
It's just part of the roof trusses above. I am going to bring my company's
head bridge engineer to take a look tomorrow.
Thanks,
MC
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