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"I am framing my basement and want to put a load-bearing wall in place of three jack posts. I bought two extra posts to temporarily hold the wall while I switch out the posts.\n\nMy question is - what should I put in place of the post jacks? I was thinking of putting three 2x4's together every place there was a post, so I'd literally have something like 12 2x4's holding up a 6ft section of wall (w/ double bottom plates and a 2x4 header)\n\nDoes this sound right? By which I mean, will it work, even if it is a little excessive. This wall is one of the most important things holding up my house, it's dead-center in the basement, with three-stories on top of it. Not going to worry about saving $20 worth of 2x4's."
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