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The homeowner plans to expand the pantry by opening a 4.5-foot section of the wall shared with the adjacent garage, extending the space roughly halfway into the garage. While the wall is not a designated shear wall, it carries the live and dead loads of the floor above, requiring careful structural planning before removal. We […]