Submitted by aliensxist t3_1233sfy in DIY
--Ty-- t1_jdtvdbh wrote
Uhh, no.
No, that's not how this is done at all.
You absolutely, positively, can NOT just cut into the beam/rim joist/header, or whatever it is you've drawn in blue on top of the studs.
If you remove studs, you need to replace them with a header that redirects the load they were once carrying to the new jack studs that are farther away. Those jack studs are then stabilized by King studs right beside them.
The size of the header required is, as u/rpapafox points out, something a structural engineer would determine.
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