instrumentation_guy

instrumentation_guy t1_ivuc4dp wrote

Can't you install a header and double up on the outside studs as if you were putting in a window on that section of wall? If its only an 18 inch span thats fuckall, whatever your stud spacing is16-24" max 48", get a 12 ft 2x8 a big bottle of weldbond, a bag of 5" framing nails and do a triple laminated beam, measure the shit out of everything so you can see if theres sag in your top plate, telepost it in the middle lift it back to where it was, cut your end studs and bang em in place. Do you want to make more engineers and lawyers rich by allowing them to tell you what you cant do without begging for their godly approval? Fuck em all.

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