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   Piffin | Mar 16, 2006 11:31pm | #1

   You're not doing anything wrong. It's just that this is not a chat room where you can get instant responces. It is a Forum where you post a note and others eventually find it and respond.

   Think of the differences between a coffee house where you can meet your friends in real time, vs a bulletin board where you keep in contact by regularly leaving notes. Some marriages, I hear, are like that, with notes on the refridgerator door.

   A chat room is the coffee house. This forum is a refridgerator door.

   Most simpler homes built with trusses have no interior bearing walls. i don't build much with trusses, so I'll let somebody else speak to that more detail but you can help them by describing your style and age of houise. There are some homes that do have trusses designed for mid-span bearing.

   And don't forget to come back and bookmark this site. You are gggoing to need other advice as you go forward.

    

    

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   FastEddie | Mar 16, 2006 11:37pm | #2

   Pif, if it really is an A-frame house, then wouldn't all the interior walls be partitions only?

     

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   rjw | Mar 16, 2006 11:50pm | #3

   >>Pif, if it really is an A-frame house, then wouldn't all the interior walls be partitions only?

   He said "A frame bungalow" so it's tough to say whether he means a true "A frame:"

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   or if he's talking about 'A shaped' roof trusses:

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   Piffin | Mar 17, 2006 12:06am | #4

   After I re-read your OP, I see the descrioption of A-frame bungalo.

   Do you mean gable style roof as opposed to a hip style?

   An A-frame is a style of house that is not all that typ[ical, and to my knowledge is not built with trusses, nor is it normally associated with the bungalo style homes.

    

    

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   user-124867 | Mar 17, 2006 05:56am | #7

    I guess I didn't describe the house very well. I can see now that the house would be described as "A Frame" roof trusses....thanks

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   Piffin | Mar 17, 2006 07:33pm | #8

   Small house, single ridge, no valleys?If so, it's not likely that the interior walls are load bearing.the ones that run the same direction as the trusses definitely are not 

    

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   Shavey | Mar 17, 2006 03:25am | #5

   If your floor joists are exposed in the basement then take a look which direction they go, and if the floor joists head towards a beam that is below the wall you want to take out you better leave it alone and get someone that knows how to handle structural work because you can get into alot of trouble if you don`t know the correct procedure for doing that kind of work.

   
   

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   thetigger | Mar 17, 2006 04:04am | #6

   If he's really an beginner that wall might be holding up the loft!OOPS!Rusti