bearing wall

He went on across the roof, following the line of the bearing wall.

One way to identify a bearing wall is to look at the joists in the house.

"How did you know that was the bearing wall?"

In order to complete the work before winter, a concrete bearing wall was installed under the front of the church.

Bearing walls function as dividers, but they also hold up part of the house.

The columns should be positioned directly underneath the bearing wall.

Nobody put vertical posts that close together, not even in bearing walls.

This also created a free floor plan, moving from the previous ideology of load bearing walls.

The interior bearing walls support the floors above and the attic weight.

Bearing walls are almost always found at right angles to the joists.

There is no excuse for a building to be in that position, with parts of a bearing wall missing."

Generally a bearing wall runs at right angles to the joists above.

In some older houses, for example, there may be bearing walls that do not have proper support posts below.

The number of people allowed in the upper floors was limited for fear the bearing walls would collapse.

The 80,000-square-foot building is being constructed of concrete plank on block bearing walls.

The head spun, then leapt to the bearing wall.

Such structures often share bearing walls as components of residential "rows."

It is still one of very few buildings in Yonkers with entirely stone bearing walls.

Another way to locate bearing walls is by looking for support columns in the basement or crawl space.

It was built in 1895, and is a three-story, rectangular plan building of bearing wall brick construction.

Tearing down a bearing wall is more complicated.

The load bearing walls on the first and second floors are brick with a plaster finish.

Early on it became clear that the cartoon house was not structurally sound; in the show the home has no load bearing walls.

Traditional masonry buildings had thick load bearing walls that supported the weight of the building.

Bearing walls are made from the same local stone that erupts in boulders from the ground outside.