I’m expanding our laundry room. It shares a common wall with the garage, so I’m basically “bumping it out” into the garage. I’m 99% sure that the house/garage wall is load bearing, but with the bump-out, I can transfer the load to the new house/garage wall that will be about 6 feet out. Is this […]
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Moving load bearing wall 6 feet?
I’m expanding our laundry room. It shares a common wall with the garage, so I’m basically “bumping it out” into the garage. I’m 99% sure that the house/garage wall is load bearing, but with the bump-out, I can transfer the load to the new house/garage wall that will be about 6 feet out. Is this […]
DIY Garage Door Opener plans
This being a Do it yourselves group. I plan to use a garage door opener on my driveway gate to roll my gate open and shut. Any ideas or opinions? — My opinion is unless your gate’s only seven feet wide a residential garage door opener won’t work. The standard garage door is seven feet […]
Hard Wood Floors Under Carpet
AKA-Look We Have Hard Wood Floors Under This Carpet….Now What We bought our house about a year ago. It was built in the 50’s. There was carpet in ALL the rooms, hall, and everything. it was cheap carpet. When we were doing the home inspection, I noticed that the carpet in one of the rooms […]