Load bearing wall?

[Sylvia]

In a double wide is the wall between the two sections load bearing? Our old master bedroom is now our dining room and the plan is to make the master closet a small study and have the opening to the old master bath go from there as that is how you now get to the closet anyway.

So the opening that one normally uses to go to the bath is to be filled in and a new opening, much larger with a french door inserted to be moved down slightly. We have to change the opening because the stairs down to the new lower level, when cut out fully will block the now entrance to the bath.

[JD]

Hi Syliva,

The hall wall in the middle of a double wide is usually considered load bearing and it certainly helps the strength of the roof. But, as you can see, in living room/dining room areas spans can be made. I would think by using the right header, you could install a 60" door in the hall wall. Also with the height of the inside wall, you have plenty of room to overbuild this header. Using double 2x10's, you really would not need a header schedule, because you would certainly be bigger than the minimum size. Having seen pictures of your home, I would think you would have enough room.

JMO
JD

[Yanita]

HI,

We removed the load bearing wall between the 2 back bedrooms, so we could have one very large master suite.

We did not use 2x10's but we did use 2x8's. We glued and screwed these together for added strength. We also added load bearing columns at either end, and then additionally added extra blocking underneath the home.

Yanita