Can You Cut Into A Load Bearing Wall

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Can You Cut Into A Load Bearing Wall. Once you decide to cut out a door frame into the wall, this video also shows you the anatomy of the stud wall framing, and discusses the wall framing, the header board, the jack stud. So my question is since this is a load bearing wall should i cut into the 2 x 12s?

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Or is there another way i can arch the doorway? I assume you mean a doorway sized opening. You can increase fire safety in your home by adding a sprinkler.

The wall supports the first floor joists and in turn the 1st floor floor boards above which is another 4 wall of the same structure.

When installing a wide window in a wall supporting a lot of weight, such as one in the ground floor of a multistory house, there is a possibility of the wall shifting when you cut the studs. Unsupported, the weight of the home. You can talk to your inspector to help i can't go into the ways of calculating those here, as we don't. Even if you started out with a wall to bear the load of the structure you're working on, you don't have to keep it that way: