Cost to take down a load bearing wall, install a beam?
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Anonymous
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Our house has a pretty traditional floor plan and we'd like to open it up. We have a load bearing wall that would need to come down and a beam installed. What would be a ballpark cost for something like this?
We'd want to take the wall down, put in a new, reconfigured kitchen that opened to the living room and dining room. |
Anonymous
| Just the wall, probably $1,000 to $2,000, maybe a bit more if you have them do all of the drywall repair, painting, etc. And another $200 for an engineer to size the beam. Please don't do this type of job without a real engineer and stamped plans. |
Anonymous
| I'm guessing if you want to hire someone start to finish, its doing to be $3-4k. |