Agree, always support from below. He was depending on the shear strength of screw to hod the joists in place. No where near as "massively engineered" as claimed. Screws a notoriously weak in shear. He also removed a 2x10 or 2x12 header about 4' long over the door and replaced it with a 4x4 more than 3 times as long. Structurally the 4x4 has less than 25% of the strength of the original foo header.

Litterally all he had to do was cut 3.5 inches off the 2x4 and his header would have sat ontop.

You can absolutely support ceiling joist like he had shown however what he installed I would not call excessively over engineered. With the naked eye it appears a couple hem fir 2x8's with (2) H2.5A's each side. Those clips will probably be okay however the beam is most likely lacking in strength. He should have paid the couple hundred dollars or so for a structural engineer to look at is.

Can I ask, what's the 1/2inch plywood used for please? Many thanks

@@GMLondonlook up “door headers” and you can learn more- but the 1/2inch softer wood used between studs in common framing. there are a few reasons, which make it a standard practice in constructing the proper support inside the wall frame.

The size of the lintel over the original doorway is a dead giveaway the wall is load bearing.

That’s why he installed a large support beam in the ceiling prior to commencing. It’s not a double story house, but the beam installed is way over specked which is a good thing. Nothing Dangerous here

@@Unkownktmdoesn’t matter how “specked” it is. It is ON TOP of the opening, thus increasing the load 😂😂

Did you end up redoing your garage for more room space? If so, how’d you do it!

Well put!

If he already posted the video that means he already did it...kinda late to put the respirator on now lol

@@hondamoto-rb6bk As a home owner, you are never done working on your house. Maybe he will use the advice for next time.

@@okkrom it was a joke

@@hondamoto-rb6bk Im a very serious guy! : )

How did you learn?

@@SimplicityBeatz KZfaq videos, google, and just trying it.

Sheet rocks one thing, call a licensed electrician .

impressive amount of willful neglect?

Good information! Thx for posting👍🏼

The wife did before he worked on it

Even more of an idiot if you only have a “voltage sniffer”

You can not harrass me and my child in one room . I need a kitchen and she needs a staircase to play.in the garden downstairs.Hera and Saba you are truely gruesome

lol did you find out the hard way?

If you're following videos like this you can expect to continue to have shitty results.

Stick to what you do best. Animation can't be easy and your'e pretty good at it.

lol as if someone in Animation would know if he did it correctly or not. You're not an engineer dude.

You snicker at people trying to point out huge safety hazards? Sure hope people don’t watch this video and think it’s correct and someone gets killed. But keep on snickering.

Exactly. Luckily for me my best friend's husband is a contractor, so he's in charge of any and all wall removals in my home. There's a lot I'll tackle myself, but nothing structural.

The only load that wall was bearing is the ceiling. The exterior walls of a house carry the weight of the roof. And he added not only a beam in the attic, but a 4x4 beam as a header.

@@jmad318 that 4x4 isnt bearing any weight. He used the incorrect hangers on the header. And that wall definitely was bearing weight. He will probably get away with it, but any inspector is going to tag that

Well there's no way he'll get sued later down the road because there is no proof he did it....oh wait....

Just caught: "I took this opportunity to heighten and widen the opening into the kitchen" aka remove the header and studs hahaha

Nothing dangerous, he installed a massive load bearing beam in the roof before taking the wall down. Job well done

@@Unkownktm if it is a bearing wall, the post which support the new beam, need reinforce the footing ( foundation) to support the load. also need metal strip to tide beam, post and footing together.

This is such a dangerous video. The span here is so small that there likely won't be a failure, but you extrapolate this over a bigger span and someone heeds this guide, big trouble...

Ok I’m no expert and haven’t done any of this DIY stuff before but I’m glad you said that cuz even I was thinking wouldn’t make sense for it to be underneath.

Yeah. From the support beam in the attic not actually doing anything and the header being undersized and the jack posts not being built correctly. You are very lucky that was was not load bearing.

@@cna5018 It is definitely a load bearing wall. You can see that it is at 3:53 because each ceiling joists consist of two pieces of construction lumber joined at the point where he has installed his 'header beam'. In other words, the ceiling joists that run perpendicular to the 'header' he installed are supported on the wall he is removing. You can also see a vertical beam coming down from the roof at 3:51 transferring the weight of his roof to the load bearing wall he is removing. He has even tied the 'header' to this vertical support! On the left side of the opening he does install what could be construed as a jack stud before attaching a beam across the opening. However, he seems to be more concerned with installing this as a cosmetic header than as a structural piece because he thinks his header in the roof is going to work. Subsequently, at the other end of this 'accidental' structural piece he ties it in to a stud in the perpendicular wall with some lagging screws. If he had used a couple of 2x4s there instead he might have saved himself, but nope, this is a disaster waiting to happen.

Does the help come with a caring bodyguard for my child

Did you guys not see 1:59? There's a huge beam carrying the load above the opening. So there's no need for a header below it.

@@JulesBondTF2 That 'beam' literally carries zero load. If you can't understand how loads work and think adding that 'beam' in the attic adds any value, PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS YOURSELF.

@@bsiudy I mean the floor beams are clearly connected to the new beam (with questionably few screws though) , so the load over the new opening is transfered up into the beam and carried out to each side of the opening. If there are walls which are strong enough to carry the new load on each side of the opening, I don't really see the issue here.

@@JulesBondTF2 You don't see the issue? LOL

Oh my God nice job your house is your record now I wonder what is before

yes, birds too.

Yep if it was your roof would have ur lucky

yea he put a beam up in the roof dude. did you not watch to pay attention lol

Ian Dang sure I saw that. But that’s not the proper way to support a wall you are not sure is a load bearing wall or not. He say in the video he is not sure it’s load bearing or not. By showing the improper way of doing it, he gives the wrong message to people in the same situation that they can put a beam on top and it will hold the house up. If he stated that he was doing it this way and that people should get the advise of a architect or engineer than it wouldn’t cause such a big backlash.

That`s the first thing I said when seen this, that is a load bearing wall and now it`s suspended from attic, not suported from beneath. Here in continenal Europe we mostly build brick houses and you cant rearange walls later as you wish so this is a beauty of wood framed houses, you can alwas rearange layout but you have to do it right way.

Agreed. Once drywall was off, there was a header over openning, indicates load bearing and while in the attic, joist are cut and lapped together, another flag of load bearing. I did not see any joists or the old double top plate sitting on that 4x4 header... confirmed a floating header.

Def

This video is beyond idiotic

how do you know that it's a load bearing wall?

@@mojo5093 Typically, the easiest way to determine if a wall is load bearing is to look at the trusses/joists above the wall. If they run perpendicularly to the wall in question, theres a high chance the wall is load bearing.

@lion I meant in general you dork! Offended much?

legend has it

@@tasangerbakes ?

@@jimaragon2110 u fixed it

@@tasangerbakes i believe you. Hes the type of guy to play dumb instead of saying thanks.

@@FreeStuffPlease smh

hahahahaha

SC 03 needs 4x12 with 4x4 studs

SC 03 shut up Meg

@@GODofDeeStruction what you talking about Willis?

What a miserable comment, lol. Bet you have zero real friends.

Anand Lucertini I was thinking the same thing...hoping it’s not a weight bearing wall...then structural support below is important too. Could’ve also used lvl, sometimes comes at 1 3/4 thick so no need for ply.

Always a pro some where in the comment section

@@dukenukem8493 well when you do this for a living

@@chalupagrande8544 yup, hopefully there is something below for point load. I mean if he was in the moment and he had 2x8's, they could've worked. What he actually should've done is look at the architectural drawings to determine what type of wall was there

Pretty sure you mean a double Jack or King stud... Cripple has nothing to do with this. Also, not sure what your codes are but you'd never get away with anything less than a doubled up 2x10 here for that span.

i think they did the "lets not make smart choices" challenge

how?

@@aFewBitsShort by removing the wall first to see if the ceiling collapses

@@aFewBitsShort by going to the attic and seeing which way the joists run.