[fibtje]

Hi
I would like to remove a wall between my living room and a rather arkwardly shaped hallway. Our house is just over 100 years old. The floor board upstairs do run the same way as the wall (north to south) but the wall runs for just less than half the house (there is no beam continuing from there. There is a wall that run from east to weat (opposite of the floor boards) and runs the whole width of the house. Any idea which the supporting wall is?

[ballengerb1]

Look in your basement to see if there are vertical beams going to the floor under this wall. Check in your attic and see if there is a wall reaching the roof sitting on top of this wall. Yes to either means load bearing. Floor boards parallel means rafters running perpendicular so I'm guessing load bearing.

[fibtje]

I checked in the basement, and there are vertical beams under but they are about 3 feet past the wall and basically run under the middle of my living room. There is another wall on the main floor about 3 foot in from outside wall that runs the whole length of the house (with a few doorways), there is one vertical metal post under this one, The wall we want to take out does run up to the seond floor (have not checked the attic yet, but does not run the whole length of the house.Is it possible we don't have a supporting wall?? (our house isn't that large (aprox 16 ft by 24ft).
Thanks

[glavine]

Look In The Attic And Find Your Ceiling Joist. Once You Do Notice The Direction There Running If It Is The Same Direction As You Wall It Is Not Load Bearing, If There Are Opposite Of Each Other Then It Is Load Bearing