How to Demo and Remove a Wall
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- Passionate renovators Ashlee & Cody walk through how to safely remove a wall in your home. #demoday
Difficulty Level: Advanced. If you are not 100% confident with removing a wall, Lowe's recommends that you hire a professional. Call 1-877-GO-LOWES or visit low.es/2qSOvBx to learn more about services through Lowe’s.
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Step one: hire a structural engineer to tell you if it's load bearing.
Or do it yourself and save a lot of money!
Obviously if you had the money to do that you wouldn't be making a TH-cam video.
Dont need to hire anyone to tell u if the wall is loadbearing unless youre lazy or a complete moron
Or if you were the one to build the house either 1 just remember or 2 look for the blueprints of the house
Just take the wall out and gage how the house responds. You’ll easily be able to tell if it’s load bearing or not.
Load bearing walls aren’t always tied to truss system; you also need to see if joists terminate on top of your wall.
I used to work with a guy who bought a flipped house. After living there for a few years, he noticed the roof was starting to sag and pinned the blame on whoever flipped the house before him taking out a load baring wall without adding any support structures back.
Great job you guys. I felt like I could do this. You explained things simple and on a level that people who have no clue could follow. So appreciate this.
"0:29" and theres a *dern* wall in the way
These tutorials always stop at the easy part. I want to see how you bring the mismatched floors together without redoing the entire floor, and also how do you repair the walls.
Sammy Lopez lopp
They’re going to have to redo the entire floor that’s all there is to it
You need a transition unless you want to redo the entire floor. On a seam that long, you may want a professional to do it to make sure it's perfectly straight.
Appreciate the replies, but I have an old house with original floors I want to keep so I would like to match them and not rip out $5000 worth of flooring for 20 square feet
@@sammylopez4644 what if you put in a new wood floor on the section you want to match and then sand and re-stain the whole thing together?
old houses had many walls because Parents had many children and Parents needed boundaries
Geez, now I want to see how that space they were working on turns out.
B Cody? Is that like B Rad?
Look forward to seeing more videos from you two. Thanks Lowe's, this was helpful for my project.
3:22 - Haha ... got you! You are putting in the reciprocating saw blade upside-down. Ca you do that? Mine won't do that.
justgivemethetruth I was wondering if anyone else caught that
Yes it's made to go either way. The direction shown at 3:22 is best if you are trying to cut something flush against a stud or wall, therefore your hand won't get in the way.
I saw that too
Mine can go either way....
Hey! What design ideas do you have for the top plate when removing the load bearing wall? We are removing a nice beam and looking for other ideas! Thank you!
That 116 shirt though ;)
Glad to have my dad, removing walls made from anything but wood and dry wall is much less intuitive.
I look forward to seeing what you do with that top plate.
Did you ever find out? I’m at the point in my remodel where I either remove it or come up with something cool and unique. I prefer the latter.
Brandon Callahan Nope
What do you do with the wires if you don’t want to rip the ceiling down ???
Demo day is my favorite day!!!🔥 Great video you two!🎥😎
Paul Peck DrywallTube thank you!
Please don’t advise DIYers on how to determine if a wall is load bearing. Very cheap price to hire a structural engineer to make an assessment versus the possible danger and damage caused by improperly removing a load bearing wall.
My god. Ive been looking rehab home videos all week and no one goes into detail. No one mentions load bearing walls. No talks about checking voltage. Its just a bunch of people glossing over important information.
I dislike this video, as a landlord. Because tenants trash properties with no respect with your encouragement. Young women often get excited during the demo segments while landlords learn much later what has happened inside their property without permission or approval. Then poorly designed "improvements" are attempted and result in much disappointment for everyone involved.
Press ctrl +delete = then the wall will be disappeared
So simple
I got one of these in my basement i'm lookin to take down so i can fit a pool table better
she was standing on a box at the end wasn't she? That's adorable
Unsubbing now - I have been asking continually on these videos when Monica with The Weekender is coming back and I never get a response. That show is the ONLY reason I subbed in the first place. Due to the lack of answer, I'm gone.
Hey +FigJam, sorry for the lack of response & we hate to see you go. We love the Weekender as much as you do, and would love to keep adding to the 44 episodes we already have. Have you been inspired to do a project as a result of watching The Weekender? Hearing that will help our cause to bring back Monica for more!
@@lowes I know nothing about design or construction and her videos have helped me a lot. I actually went to Lowe's to get some stuff for the place I'm renting. I really want to use the easy peel wallpaper to add color to my house because I can paint it white but nothing but white. I would love more of her videos pleaaasseee
@@lowes Don't worry Lowes. I'll take FigJam's place and sub. I appreciated this video and I shop at Lowes all the time. We are remodeling the kitchen and have a wall we want to remove. The wall is plaster though, so a much harder wall, but this is still helpful.
My house is probably older than America itself, certainly isn't made of wood.
why do americans build their houses with materials that termites love to devour or a hurricane could tear down? have they not heard the story about the three little pigs? think about the environmental impacts of using so much of
wood.
That's the beauty of american houses, so easy to remove a few wood sticks. It gets a lot messier with a brick or plaster wall :/
One serious omission: What to do with outlets? Virtually all walls have receptacle outlets with a "goes into" cable and a "goes out to" cable.
Most walls aren’t wood paneling though. I’m trying to find out what to do with drywall
What happened to weekender lady?
Thank you for this video! It let me know that I will be hiring a contractor 🤣
2:18 His voice becomes more stern. Usually, it's just louder.
love the t-shirt 116 - great group!
This is a very helpful video. Thanks Cody and Ashlee and thanks Lowe's.
Wow. nice Video you Guys made there :) But what happens to the floor next to the kitchen ? It looks.... open ?! :D
Greetings from Germany, Michelle
Don't worry! That's next on the list 😉
What if it's a drywall wall I can't just peel the wall off
I had the same problem from my kitchen to my living room right across from each other. So I cut some of wall dividing the two rooms and working on a bar like countertop
American houses appear to be built out of old cardboard egg boxes. Walls, floors, roofs ceilings, everything is just thin bits of wood with virtually no masonry at all. How can you live like that?
simple clear & quick. thanks
Is anyone wachong thos from the uk like me
Planning on expanding the closest one day.
Love love LOVE this video and lol forward to seeing a lot more from you.
How do I do if it is a loadbearing wall I want to make my bathroom bigger and there’s a wall on the outside but there’s a 6 x 6 they’re running along the top and coming down
you don’t
I could watch this woman do anything...
Walls. Why dompeople.hate them.so.much?
You never said what you did with the electric!!
I thought a 'durn wall' was always load bearing.
Thank you guys for making this! I'm new to this so this was very helpful.
I always thought that any wall running perpendicular to the ceiling joints (across them) is load bearing and should not be removed without adding a structural beam supported on the ends.
Absolutely correct.
Lady wanted to have a loft feel.
“Take it all out !, she said. “
(No regard for the rest of the floors above coming down. Just a loft feel. )
“ l have $100 bucks for the project !”
If only my walls were like that.....
Wow this video is misleading. 1:28 and 1:50 are incomplete statement. There are many other ways this wall could be bearing loads.
Then sell the use 2×4s to pay the mortgage off
Hi guys, great video.
I have a question maybe two.
I’m a single mother with champagne taste but on a serious beer budget.
I bought a 1940’s home and it’s less than 900sf.
It has shiplap that I’d like to reuse after I open the whole house up.
But all I have is a small crowbar a hammer and small saw.
Any advice?
The ceiling joist may be over spaned now. An engineer may determine that the existing joist may need to be sistered to meet code. You can check the spam tables yourself and or take a carpenter class at your local college
I want to know what he ended up doing with that top plate later
Amazing video! I could have used this in my old house for sure!
Awesome tips guys! Hopefully we can see me from y'all. Not sure if y'all have a show but tal are new to me haha
God thanks for the info but why take the rout of an 80s back and forth infomercial with fake conversations? lol
116 I digg it!
This video was spot on. Such great information.
Is it best to remove a section like yours, then jack up the floor to level it... then secure it with shims and then glue joists and lay down sub floor?
do I have to act horribly to do this too?
Awesome vid. time to take out a wall!
God bless you guys thank you for your information the only thing that I really like about the construction from the era is that the smells from the kitchen will not go anywhere else.
If you have a good air ventilation unit it should significantly reduce this issue, otherwise even the walls, cupboards and ceiling gets stained over time from the steam carrying tiny food particles.
They act like it is the easiest thing. Like this one had paneling and wasn’t load bearing so it was easy, but once you get to a wall with plaster it sucks
You forgot to mention the direction of the joists relative to the wall. If joists lap on that wall then it’s load bearing. Also if removing the wall would overspan the joists then it’s load bearing.
Good point .... I think what you are saying is that if the joists are crossing over the wall and are right on top of them it is load bearing. But I am not sure what you mean when you say the "joists lap"? What does lap mean?
My house is an old house and has a load bearing wall running down the middle of it, and there are two sets of ceiling joists from from each side of the house and meeting in the middle over that load bearing wall. That is the middle of the house has a wall where the joists meet and are nailed together in addition to being nailed to the top of that load bearing wall. Is that was lap means?
@@justgivemethetruth yes that's what lap means. Joists are commonly 18ft long. If your house is wider than that then the joists will have to overlap on an interior wall. Or if it's like my house, the idiot framers used differing dimensions of joists and they lap several times. Instead of running 2x8 joists across the whole house, they broke it up into sections of 2x6 joists and 2x8 joists.
@@xBRVTALx
Thanks. So, I assume when you say "overspan? you mean create a condition where the joist is spanning a distance larger than the code would permit for its strength or dimensions?
@@justgivemethetruth correct. Lumber has a maximum unsupported span rating based on the type of lumber, dimensions, etc.
thats why if you don't know hire an engineer.... stupid videos. :p
If only this video was around when John Green had a moldy basement wall. We could have saved a call to Mikhail Gorbachev.
the sim is so much easier
I loved your video! Makes demo look easy.
Do you need permit for this
The breaker should be locked out. At least taped over. More of an issue if the wires were not in the fixture.
Kool-aid man only charged me $4.98.
Can you flip the switch to the wall instead of flipping the breaker
I don’t want to remove a wall, i just want to replace the wall. I have wood walls in my room but I want to replace that with like smooth walls not planks
What about messing up with asbestos? If it was built in the 60's isn't that a concern?
In India,we use testers which are very cheap and also used for putting scrools also. those are mechanical
Mate you live in a tree house
Really helpful video I learned a lot. Thanks ever so much You two make a cute couple too! Blessings
You look like siblings 😊
wear your helmet!!
So i have a closet i want to get rid of in a L shaped room and its the closet thats making it l shaped but it has the breaker on the other side, is there a way to put the breaker in another room
How much does this cost? If it’s a load bearing one
From the thumbnail.. thought this was a father daughter bit.
What's a dern wall?
Y’all did amazing! So informative and professional!!!
Thank you both for explaining what to use and how to educated your viewers in case a demo will occur. Very productive and instructive video.
Great info! Well done video very professional I’m removing a wall between two bedrooms it used to be the outside of the house. The other bedroom was added to it in the 80s. I wonder if it’s load baring? Guess I’ll have to see what you did and find out!
Greetings from Los Angeles
Very corny but very informative :P thank you :P
Can that saw do walls
Where are these houses with wooden sub floors? In Florida its just concrete under that shit haha
is that a 116 shirt?!!!
More Ashlee & Cody, please!
Great job Ashlee and B Cody...
learned so much from this video. I thought my life is doomed with the stupid wall in my house.
116
Dude I love your shirt rep CHRIST!
B. Cody? 😂😂😂
Thanks! Great info in case we decide to remove any walls in our new house!
I’m in the process of purchasing a house in Indiana. And I’m gonna need all the skill I can to help me reconstruct the house.
Good luck! I'm sure it will turn out great.
Great video . Can you be hired to do similar work in a home?
This is my third video. Yous has understandable explanations. Interesting questions and answers. I like the many ways to remove the walls option. Thanks