Load-bearing walls are also built with two-by-fours but also with two-by-sixes or two-by-eights. It's rarely necessary to build a partition wall thicker than 4 inches thick.

Removing a load-bearing wall helps homeowners widen doors, expand rooms, or improve traffic flow. Older houses especially have lots of walls and narrow doors. Taking down a load-bearing wall can ...

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Kevin: So interior wall, non load bearing, do we have to do it 16 inches on center or could we mix it up? Nathan: No, you can mix it up. You could do 2 foot on center.

MIAMI – Several questions remain over how a construction crew ended up removing a load-bearing wall at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, causing a portion of the historic building’s third floor to ...