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Trying to determine safe header span for clear opening on existing remodel
Technically there could exist a table for your header. Analogous to the new deck footing table in the 2021 IRC, such a table would require you to understand the concept of "tributary area." ...
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Load bearing or decorative?
Those aren't load bearing. Note also how the columns aren't centered over the thin edges. In the hypothetical universe where those are load bearing columns, the upper shelving surfaces act as transfer ...
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Trying to see if wall I removed 1.5 years ago was load bearing
Ruling a wall as load bearing can be somewhat easy. Just find a familiar pattern for load bearing walls and you're done. Ruling a wall as non-load bearing, unfortunately, requires the complete ...
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ICF home -- are columns in the photos load bearing?
Assuming that the rectangular box above the sliding doors is HVAC duct feeding an upper story, then yes those columns are load bearing. The ceiling joists run perpendicular to that HVAC duct. That's ...
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ICF home -- are columns in the photos load bearing?
Caveat: Amateur rather than professional here.
I am almost certain these are load-bearing. Tell-tale signs for me:
Columns which are this thick (or rather, with minimum dimension this big) - some of ...
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ICF home -- are columns in the photos load bearing?
In a concrete wall (which is what an ICF house is built from) those are certainly load-bearing concrete columns. It would have required some very deliberate design to make the header over that space ...
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