Hip Roof Load Bearing Walls

Because i have a hip roof that slopes towards each exterior wall each of those walls is carrying some roof weight.

Hip roof load bearing walls.

Shear walls or steel moment frames in homes with large windows or other large openings provide the strength to resist lateral loads. Advantages of prefabricated hip roof trusses. Firstly premade hip roof trusses span a longer distance and can do without the presence of inside weight 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.

A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two. My home is different. There are many houses where just the front and back walls are bearing walls. Not all exterior walls are bearing walls though.

These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters. The wall you are wanting to remove is not a bearing wall by looking at the framing in the attic and the roof lines of the house. A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof. Secondly prefabricated hip roof trusses are much less expensive than stick roof framingsince they come in short lengths of 2 4 stock.

Load bearing walls are those walls in a structure that support the weight of the structure above. However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. 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. Side walls are primary load bearing walls in simple gable end framing but hip roofs and complex roof lines depend on more than just the side.

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. Residential structures framing systems typically consist of the roof structure that supports the roof. The exterior walls on houses that support the roof are primary bearing walls.