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[quote=Anonymous]As first-timers with, I assume, little reno experience, I would not. There are a lot of things you need to think about: 1) Did you think about covering air vents? There is going to be a ton of dust--and not just in the immediate area. 2) How are you going to dispose of the wall and rubble? 3) Have you checked for lead paint (lead in the paint dust)? 4) How are you going to finish the walls and the ceiling? If you damage the ceiling, you are going to have to hire someone to redo the ceiling dry-wall and plaster. 5) Be very, very sure that yours is not a load-bearing wall. It didn't seem that our wall between our kitchen and dining was load bearing, but it indeed was (found out by a structural engineer, not the contractors we interviewed). We did open up the wall, but braces had to be put in during demo and LVLs placed in the upper part of the wall.[/quote]
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