I wanna knock down a wall!?

I have this wall that goes between my kitchen and what is now my dining room its opened on both sides so you and walk in to the room and in the middle is the wall but it has like a opening like a window kind of. well i want to take that wall completely out! now my problem is its a modular home and my husband says it cant be done... is that true? because i really wanna knock it down! Also the side of the house , i want to open that up to a new room make the house bigger on top and bottom. can this also be done?


thank you|||Is it a load-bearing wall? If it runs down the center of your modular home, chances are good it is load-bearing. If you remove it, the house may collapse, or at least the walls crack and the roof crack and you end up with leaks in your roof and water running in when it rains. (That's a very bad thing.) You might be able to modify the wall by leaving the big supporting beam in at the doorway, if that's where it is. Any smaller horizontal furring strips and plaster or hardboard could be removed. I've seen some modular homes with an exterior wall knocked out and a stick-built addition attached.|||Is a modular home the same thing as a mobile home? I know they can mean different things, but depending on the region they are often synonymous.





If this is a mobile home, you pretty much can't remove walls. Basically the entire structure is integrated engineering and removing a wall could compromise the rest of the structure.





If you don't mean mobile, then the answer depends. Sometimes they are build more like traditional construction and then just moved on site, others are more integrated.|||You cannot do it because you do not know the first thing about construction. You can hire a contractor to look at what you want to do and draw up a plan and give you an estimate. If the wall you want to remove is a load bearing wall then you have to find another way to hold the ceiling joists up across the span, it might mean installing a beam, and that is expensive. A cheap modular home probably does not warrant the expense.|||I was reading your question thinking, "well, what's she waiting for?" until I got to the bit about the modular home.





When you say modular, do you mean "mobile?" Because if you do, your house doesn't have any extra material in it. What I mean to say is, there isn't any strength to spare.





You're going to need to investigate carefully. If it's a load-bearing wall, I'd recommend against ever cutting into it. If the wall runs along the long axis of the house, parallel with the longest dimension of the house, I'd guess without seeing it that it's probably load-bearing.





This doesn't mean it can't be done - few things are truly impossible and this certainly isn't - but you need to do more research on your end. Call the company that built the home and talk to them. They can answer questions better than anyone on this forum.|||Anything can be done for the right amount of money!





If the wall runs lengthwise down the center of the home then it IS load bearing and cannot be removed unless you temporarily support both sides, remove the wall, and put a beam in place where the wall was.





I feel really sorry for the guy who removed a load bearing wall KNOWINGLY and drywalled over it and thinks it is going to last!|||I live in a mobile home. I've just removed the load bearing wall between the living room and dining room and the house is not only still standing, but looks much more spacious and modern. We supplemented the structure with new plywood sub floor under hardwood, and new gyp rock on ceiling over lapping the seam between the two section of mobile home.





The wall you are removing is somewhat smaller that what we've done, so I say Yes, you can indeed take out the wall between those two rooms. Have fun re-designing your space!|||It CAN be done, but may be a bigger project than you think. The first step is to determine if the wall actually supports the structure above it. If is does the support will have to be replaced. That can be done with a sufficiently sized beam and columns on either end of the opening. You really need a good contractor of structural engineer to inspect the building and determine what needs done.|||With the irritating wall. Take it apart slowly. You do not knock it down unless you are ABSOLUTELY sure that it is not holding up the ceiling, and there is no plumbing or electrical wiring inside it.


So you sneak a peak by pulling off the paneling from one side. With panels off you can see the framework sticks that hold it together. Yes it is going to be a fussy job (because you may have to keep that wall there so you want to rebuild it again as it was. I cannot say. My eyes are here. You have to make that determination yourself. Maybe seeing the folks who built the home have to say(as they have all the floorplans so would know if that is a load bearing wall or just a separation wall.. Making the house bigger can be done but you need to go to the city to get their OK and a permit to build. Also keep in mind where the sewer or septic field is (because you do not build on top of it.) Talk to a building contractor for this addition work is your best bet.|||Yeah it can be done your husband just doesnt want to do it but, ive learned that the moms are the real men of the house it can be done within earliest probably 3 to 7 days!!!!! oh and the room yeah it can be done know that probably small room=4days medium room=a week to 9 days big room= 2 to 3 weeks.