Hip Roof Interior Load Bearing Walls

Stair well openings are also typically load bearing points.

Hip roof interior load bearing walls.

The exception would be in the case of a hip roof were ceiling joists often change direction at each end of the house and a wall is run crossways to support the inside ends of the joist the ceiling joists appear to change direction directly above one of the walls. Load bearing walls are those walls in a structure that support the weight of the structure above. Just to be on the side of caution i would install an 8ft 4x4 directly centered under the splice with lag bolts and remove the vertical. Gonna have to chat with an engineer to know for sure.

However it is only supporting the ceiling not the roof so not a tremendous load but you do have to properly distribute the point loads you create by opening the wall to the earth. Yes interior walls that run perpendicular to the run of the floor joists above and below are almost always load bearing walls. But there are many a wall such as this in a home that are not bearing any weight whatsoever. Note how the floor joists above are passing over the wall at a 90 degree angle.

A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof. A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two. Any wall on all floors directly above or parallel to a basement beam typically wood steel i beam or a basement wall must be considered by a layman as directly load bearing. This is a load bearing wall.

Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing walls.