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Good Gawd! A stud holding up a second floor by itself... time to have that domicile condemned and the inhabitants moved out asap!
by Simon_O_Rourke 3y ago
Good Gawd! A stud holding up a second floor by itself... time to have that domicile condemned and the inhabitants moved out asap!
- Cerium 3y agoThe only option is to do a complete rebuild. The load bearing stud indicates that the foundation design was inadequate for current needs.
- jefftk 3y agoThe closet partition stud was bearing enough load to matter, but it wasn't holding up the whole second floor by itself. I put in a new beam to replace the load bearing wall the preivous-previous owners had removed, with posts down to the basement: https://www.jefftk.com/p/bathroom-construction-framing https://www.jefftk.com/p/bathroom-construction-framing