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May 9, 2015 at 22:42 comment added Damon If you or a good contractor can reverse engineer the framing enough to know if it is a load bearing wall, then you or that good contractor can figure a header size that will handle the load. Gravity loads in houses are easy if you know what you are doing. A structural engineer is overkill for most all residential gravity load situations in 1-2 story dwellings unless they are extremely cut up. Especially with free structural analysis programs.
May 9, 2015 at 18:11 comment added keshlam ... something appropriate about Defenestrate advising on fenestration....
May 9, 2015 at 18:09 comment added keshlam "Support" when modifying a loadbearing wall consists essentially of framing a temporary wall to take the weight while you have the load bearing wall partially removed. That requires knowing where to put that temporary framing so it in turn will be adequately supported. Getting a structural engineer's advice is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED before altering a loadbearing wall... or any wall you aren't certain of. In old houses load may have redistributed itself.
May 9, 2015 at 17:00 history answered Aloysius Defenestrate CC BY-SA 3.0