@homeloveconstruction: Wait, you WANT the wall to fall over?! 😳🌊 Yep. In this case, that’s the point. Brad is looking at a coastal home where the first-floor block structure uses breakaway walls. If a severe flood sends waves through this area, these walls are designed to separate from the columns and blow over. Why? So the waves can move back and forth through the area without bringing the entire house down with them. And that works because these walls aren’t carrying the house. The columns are. All of the structural load from above is carried by the columns surrounding that first-floor block wall. Brad points out that those columns are also one way you can recognize what you're looking at. If that block wall were one continuous load-bearing wall, those columns wouldn’t be needed. But “breakaway” doesn’t mean somebody built a flimsy wall and called it a day. 😂 It’s still a solid block wall built with a lintel. It’s structurally sound while it’s there—it’s simply designed so that during a severe flood, it can separate without taking the entire house with it. A wall designed to lose the fight so the house doesn’t have to. 🌊🏠 For homeowners in Tampa, Clearwater, Dunedin, Safety Harbor, Sarasota, and throughout the Tampa Bay area, Home Love Construction specializes in custom homes, major renovations, structural remodeling, home additions, and Florida home transformations. #construction #building #remodeling #tampa

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