I'm wanting to remove a door way wall that enclosed the laundry room to the garage. The door way wall is perpendicular to the joists above and sits right in the middle of the master bedroom above but only about halfway. The joists run through the header of the wall. The wall on the left of the door also ends there and the wall on the right of the door near the vent is the exterior wall. The door way wall also has a vent which I'm intending to keep so the entire wall won't be coming out but I'm wanting to open it up to the jack stud. I'm also wanting to open up the pantry closet and that is parallel to the joists above. The issue I'm seeing are these 2x8 or 2x10 headers. The wall in the first picture is centered and parallel to the back exterior wall of the house. The back exterior wall is 44 feet long and the wall in the first picture is only 5 feet long coming from the far right of the house. The only other wall that is perpendicular to the ceiling joists is the door way wall right across which goes to the half bath also shown in the first picture. This house was built in '98. Can I remove them?
