Re: Load bearing wall vs. shelves
- From: "RicodJour" <ricodjour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Aug 2006 10:36:21 -0700
avid_hiker wrote:
On a load bearing wall that is between kitchen and livingroom, I was
thinking of taking off the drywall and making fixed shelving in its
place.
I was told I couldnt do this from a friend because it is load bearing
and the drywall gives the wall support. Is this a fact? I live in Mass.
Dunno of any codes. But Im sure I can make this shelving strong enough
or even stronger than any drywall.
Everyone has an opinion and unfortunately your friend's is wrong. Of
course you can strip the wall, build shelves between and have a wall at
least as strong as one with drywall. It's rare that a house in a
non-hurricane or seismic area has shear walls on the interior - and
even if they were, they wouldn't use drywall for the shear strength.
Poke a couple of holes and find out before you start ripping off the
drywall.
BTW, make sure you address the electrical and possibly other
mechanicals in that wall. You can't leave the typical plastic covered
Romex wiring exposed so you'd have to either cover it with something
like Wiremold, rewire it with conduit or relocate the wiring.
R
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