Load-bearing Walls

Whenever you are planning on doing major work on the walls of your house, you need to know if they are load-bearing or not before you start. Load-bearing walls are holding up your house, and even slight alterations to their structure can cause big problems.

The external walls of your house are almost always load-bearing, supporting the majority of the roof weight and transmitting the load to the foundations.

The internal walls of your house are not so easy to categorise. At least some of the walls will be load-bearing (except in some timber frame houses, etc) but...

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