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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Unless your home is like 100 years old, it's highly unlikely any basement walls are load bearing.
You got posts that hold up the beams that hold up the joists in home built after the 1940s basically. Think of an unfinished basement.
I would say you are safe to knock down any wall in your basement, but just know there might be a post hiding in said wall, ruining the aesthetic you are planning.
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I don't disagree but just to add to this our house built in 1950 has a load bearing basement wall. Yeah, weird.
That said, there a few pretty obvious give aways with load bearing walls. First, they need to run perpendicular to the joists. Second, they'll be at the end of a joist and not mid span. Third, your saw will bind after you've gotten through a few studs...