Non Load Bearing Wall Over Tile

It is not a part of the structural frame system.

Non load bearing wall over tile.

Installing new non loadbearing wall on tile floor i want to install a couple of floor to ceiling non loadbearing walls of standard 2x4 w sheet rock construction to corner off a small section of the garage. Load bearing walls support the weight of elements above such as the roof attic second floor and joists. Use a chalk line to mark the location for the wall on the floor. No matter how your house is currently laid out you re never stuck with it.

Most of the time they are interior walls whose purpose is to divide the floor into rooms. Remove any carpeting on the floor and moldings on the walls and ceilings where the wall will be. Building a non load bearing wall. A non load bearing wall doesn t support floor roof loads above.

They are built lighter to reduce the dead load of the structure. Load bearing and non load bearing. There are two types of walls in a house. A home has two basic types of walls load bearing and non load bearing.

Just as the name implies one carries weight above it and the other does not. Each wall of the corner will be about 10 12 long. A load bearing wall is a structural wall that may carry the weight of the roof the weight of upper floors and even the weight of a rooms ceiling. With the exception of load bearing walls which are built.

How to frame a non load bearing interior wall on concrete. The garage floor is ceramic tile set firmly on the concrete slab.