 Is this wall load-bearing? So the first thing, and what is a load-bearing wall? Load-bearing wall is what's carrying the structure or carrying some weight of the structure above it. Now you can have a load-bearing, load-bearing walls are not just, is it load-bearing or not? It can carry some load, which I guess is load-bearing. But these are things that you need to figure out if this is just a partition wall that doesn't need to be there.